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‘The challenge of building in a small plot is to ensure you do not feel its smallness’
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Many-sided: A view of Sasi’s house: (From left) View, Hall, courtyard and skylight. _ Photo: Courtesy: Spacecape.
When you step inside this house, you get right into the heart of it. There is no linear sequencing of spaces starting from the threshold leading up to the backyard. The metal entrance door takes you to the courtyard and then is the dining or living as you wish and before you realise you reach the end of the house. But this is only at one level. There many levels to this house.
`The challenge of building in a small plot is to ensure that you do not feel its smallness’ says architect Sashi. When he decided to build a house in Mylapore for himself, Rajini his architect wife, his young child and parents he tried achieve it by going for a multi-level plan. At the basement he has his studio, at the midlevel the house and an office- space for his father.
A small green terrace and a video-cum-work room on top. All this in a 4500 sq.ft built up space.
`One should be able to see the tree in front from different corners of the house’ desires Sashi.
` This is important to break the smallness’, he believes. The interior is apportioned into multiple levels overlooking each other and connected by a winding staircase. Every level of the staircase holds an activity or two. There is always some greenery to look and a small court to view.
‘Rooms must have colour, texture light, and green. While a sense of space must prevail, it does not mean that they must be minimilastically bare’, he says.
In a 3000 sq.ft plot Sasi has managed to achieve just that.
A. SRIVATHSAN
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