mirai home: a retreat from the warmth of the desert
The Sanjay Puri Architects studio in Mumbai goes to Bhilwara in Rajasthan to finish this “Mirai Home of Arches”. Located alongside a nook of the residential neighborhood, the expressive structure is designed as a direct response to the recent, dry local weather of its desert context – town is situated simply outdoors the large Thar Desert, which covers practically seventy p.c of Rajasthan. . Integrating passive design methods, shaded terraces and luxurious gardens, the home introduces an oasis of coolness for its occupants.
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multigenerational life by sanjay pure architects
The Sanjay Puri Architects staff designs the Mirai Home of Arches for a household of three generations, residing collectively and every with distinctive wants. Inside, the home is unfold over three ranges and contains 4 bedrooms, two residing areas, a gymnasium and an workplace. Given this multi-generational programming, designers incorporate areas with various ranges of privateness, together with residing areas that really feel separate from one another, in order that the household can happen both to unfold out or to assemble collectively.
Within the part, the areas are designed with varied heights, borrowing an attention-grabbing sport of volumes. Totally different components of the home may be both excessive or intimate, with single-height bedrooms, a double-height eating space and a residing space with an intermediate peak of 1 and a half meters.
sculpted with a passive design
As a part of its ambitions for passive design, Sanjay Puri Architects wraps its Mirai Home of Arches in a porous envelope. Opening to the surface with its distinct arched openings, the facade creates a collection of shaded terraces, semi-exterior, and supplies the pure breeze inside. Thus, the envelope ends in a considerable discount in warmth acquire and ensures the opening of every room to its personal shaded outside area.
The architects be aware: “Designed to dampen warmth acquire in response to the grasping sizzling local weather of its location, this envelope retains the whole home cool within the sizzling summer season months, when temperatures rise above 40 ° C for eight months a yr.. ‘
Sanjay Puri Architects feedback: ‘This sculptural home is contextual with its environment, local weather and wishes of the proprietor, leading to an attention-grabbing sport of volumes, open, closed and semi-closed areas on every stage. The design creates energy-efficient areas with low warmth acquire and oblique pure gentle in each a part of the home.
‘In collaboration with native craftsmen and contract employees within the quick neighborhood, the home was constructed utilizing bricks, tiles and lime plaster from native sources and contains water recycling processes, rainwater assortment and photo voltaic panels for vitality technology. The home is constructed sustainably and responds to the local weather.‘
