Moira House 2023
Contemporary Residence with an Outhouse and a Private Garden
On a beautiful sloping site with aged teak trees, the house and the outhouse frame a private open-to-sky space for a tropical garden to take form. The structures, designed to be efficient, simple and elegant, open out to this lush, light-filled private outdoor space that transforms over the quintessential Goan seasons – Monsoon and Not-Monsoon! The double-height living space having a brick vault roof acts as a connector and an assimilator space – central cohesive volume where all life unfolds. By orienting the buildings East-West, the design ensures that there is very limited heat-gain and the facade can open out to the North into the central sanctum.
INFORMATION
Project type: Residential
Client/ Patron: Ujjwala Dutt, Debashish Ghosh
Year of Initiation: 2018
Year of Completion: 2024
Location: Moira, Goa
Site Area: 1350 sqm
Built-Up Area: 365 sqm
Design Team: Ankit George, Charuvadan Dwivedi, Ruhani Adlakha, Viraj Bhatt, Niladri Roy, Soumia Gupta, Sudheesh S, Arjun Prakash, Rishiraj Sarkar
Civil Contractor: Amirchand Pandit
Structural Engineer: Rajesh Mahambrey; Rajesh Mahambrey and Associates, Goa
Electrical Contractor: Arvind Electricals; Arvind Gunagi
Plumbing Contractor: Shirsekar Enterprises; Sandeep Shirsekar
Carpentry: Bharat Wood Craft Industries; Jitendra Sharma
Fabricator: Laxmi Metal Art; Manohar Hadfadkar
Landscape: GB Agrohortland; Gajanand
Photographs: Matter, Atik Bheda
