Cool Home / Samira Rathod Design Atelier
Textual content description supplied by the architects. We imagine that structure is a response to many parameters, context, web site, vegetation, geography, and local weather. When constructing in a dry and arid place like Bharuch, the warmth, regionally known as “bathroom” in Guajarati was a giant such parameter that the structure had to answer. When making a home, it’s crucial to take cognizance of many sensible parameters of consolation, and for this home in Bharuch it was significantly tackling the summer time warmth. The identify Cool Home has come from the best way the home has been designed, a respite in the summertime, a tree’s shade below the scorching solar, the home as within the phrases of our patron is sort of a funnel that channels all of Bharuch’s wind into the home, making it a cool snug haven to stay in.
Designed like a monitor with rooms on both aspect the home is punctured vertically making two courtyards on both aspect of the central track-like hall. The courtyards start from the primary ground and body views of the sky from the home. Being in a decent row home cloth within the city the context actually is one other home in nice proximity. The home is designed like a field, relatively inward-looking with home windows which can be strategic to herald the cool breeze and diffuse the sharp mild. The south facade is saved pretty useless and the wind is allowed to go from the southwest courtyards and escape from the northeast courtyard ventilating the complete home.
One courtyard has shallow waterbody that cools the incoming wind earlier than it enters the home. This courtyard additionally has a jali that enables for the wind to be channeled after which thrown into the home like a whiff of a cool breeze on a summer time afternoon. The opposite courtyard has timber on the primary ground making a kind of context for the home from inside and permitting inside home windows to see the tree crowns. Though inward wanting there’s a fixed choreography of inside and outdoors motion inside the home the place you encounter the courtyards and may step out to them from the central monitor.
To assist with beating the warmth, the home additionally has thick exterior partitions and a cool soothing inside achieved in lime “chuno” that helps cool the rooms from inside. The home is an instance of latest structure that closely depends on our innate data of local weather and supplies that work in such harsh local weather areas. The home, like a field from the skin, has distinctive materiality, one painted black and the opposite very tactile utilizing small customized cute siporex bricks, the semantics makes the logic of a monitor hall and volumes on both aspect very evident. Small pockets have been recognized inside the mass that punctures it and inexperienced is allowed to develop from inside.
The ‘Cool Home’ in Bharuch has been a shock for us all. Though the whole lot has been consciously designed inside the home, the breeze in the home on the peak of summer time has actually blown us away, actually and figuratively.
