Private residence
- Vol.86(4), April
- Mumbai Indian Institute of Architects 2021
- 40-42p.
This house was designed as a small, but big home for a lottery seller, his wife and their 5-year old son, with a grandmother visiting regularly. It was built with a limited budget on a small sloping site in the warm humid tropical climate of Kerala. Instead of dictatorially curating each part of the space for the client, this residence negotiates the dual existence of ownership, both by the architect in terms of his designed signature object, and by the user in terms of the intimate customisable spaces where he can design how he uses them. This is an attempted mediation between home and house, user and designer- the former ac- commodating the intimate spatial personalisation and memory formation by the client, while the lat- ter becomes the image, or signature, of the architect.