The walls and floor of the house, designed by Samira Rathod Design Atelier studio, are decorated with fragments of old bricks, interspersed with stone chips and rubble

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The main distinguishing feature of this residence, located in the middle of mango thickets, is the concrete walls, which the Samira Rathod Design Atelier studio called “sculptural elements”. The house is built mainly from recycled construction waste. “There are a variety of inclusions in the collected fragments: stone chips, broken bricks and sometimes large pieces of stone. All this looks like ancient fossils immured in the walls — says the team. — Various experiments with the material allowed us to give each wall a certain texture. Cast and waterjet concrete was used in the project.”

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Nivedita Gupta

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Nivedita Gupta

Inside the house is a large open space with high ceilings. In the central part there is a living room, a dining room, a bar and an office. The windows of the central block face west. The space continues with an external terrace and a staircase that leads down to a shaded veranda with a swimming pool at the back of the courtyard.

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Nivedita Gupta

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Nivedita Gupta

There are two small separate spaces in the east wing. In one there is a master bedroom and a bathroom, and in the other there is a staff room and a storage room.

In the north of the plot there is a separate two-storey block, in which a guest area with two bedrooms is organized. From the main building you can get there by a paved path.

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Nivedita Gupta

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Nivedita Gupta

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Nivedita Gupta

In the interior, the concrete floor inlaid with black stones contrasts with the smooth concrete ceiling with geometric skylights and walls of rough stone framing the recreation area and niches for sculptures. Dark wooden furniture and doorways made of the same material soften the brutality of the concrete finish. All storage spaces are hidden inside sections equipped in the thick walls of the house.

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Nivedita Gupta

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Nivedita Gupta

The thickness of the walls also solves another problem — the problem of ventilation of premises. Inside each wall there are small air ducts that carry cold air throughout the house.

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Julia Tit

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