By Savitha Hira
Photography: Vibhor Yadav; courtesy Renesa
Architects Studio
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Renesa Architects Studio designs
a sprawling farmhouse to evolve a holistic vision that interprets the landscape
as a complex artefact...
Vintage design is so rich
and timeless that people keep referencing different epochs, borrowing nuances
and stylistic elements to augur the same ageless charm. Renesa Architects
Studio also does this as a bespoke exercise in their design of a New Delhi
farmhouse – an approx. 17000 sq. ft. spread on a 3-acre plot!
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The layout follows an open,
clean, straight-line spaces ideology that is jointly endorsed by both, the
architect and the client, to keep the home simple and chic. Following the
Palladian style - massing of the built form, the employ of a portico and the
ground plus one structure with balconies all around confer the façade with as
much significance as the interiors.
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The rotund driveway,
trellised loggia from the portico to the entrance and beyond creates intimacy
right from the time the gates open. The lush gardens, patio and landscaping are
treated as fundamental to the built form and the aesthetic link between the
edifice and the environs is maintained from all vantage points of the interior;
akin to Tuscan villa gardens with some elements of ‘Federation architecture’ –
a term coined in the late 1960's. A small golf course and a jogging track are
incorporated here, brining one back into the present day.
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The L-shaped interior
layout with the voluminous swimming pool as the focal loci has the public
spaces relegated to the ground floor and the private quarters on the first
floor - spaces anointed in the same colonial fusion of styles.
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Wrought iron railings
detail the Indianesque touch as do corner brackets and the floral trellis,
which is also used as camouflage for the vertical services to sanctify the
aesthetic quotient without any compromises.
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So what first appears like
a classic villa with its crossed-gable roofs is at close quarters, a diligently
put together home with the warmth of archetypal nuances that are referenced
from different periods, merged with contemporaneous elements, resulting in an
eclectic home that is in constant dialogue with its beatific environs.
“At the same time, emphasis
is given to motion and contemplation,” informs principal architect Sanchit
Arora. “The built-mass is expressed through its form and its material in
contrast to the dynamic consistency of nature and its continuous state of flux.”
And in this, the design studio diligently goes beyond the stereotype vision of
the architect, drawing equally from disciplines of photography and art.
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