Skewed Residence by Hardik Shah is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2019 Bronze A' Design Award in Architecture, Building and Structure Design Competition Category.
BronzeArchitecture· 2019
Skewed Residence
by Hardik Shah
Client: Studio Lagom
Bronze A' Design Award Winner in Architecture Category
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About Skewed Residence
Skewed is a standalone villa located in Surat, India. The house covers 11,000 square feet and is planned as a series of interconnected vistas. Elements are shifted slightly off the straight line, which creates varied perspectives within the three-dimensional form. Simple aesthetics, a minimal material palette and close connections to nature guide the design. Black granite flooring, concrete and plaster walls, and teak windows and interior woodwork are used throughout. A garden on the first floor is carried by a post tensioned slab and connects with the whole house.
The Recognition
About the Bronze A' Design Award
Skewed Residence is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a highly prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness. Bronze winners are amply skillful and strikingly creative artifacts that authenticate the vast experience, imagination, and resourcefulness of their designers. Skewed Residence is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished object that is notably professional and innovative. This Bronze A' Design Award-winning design incorporates best practices in art, science, design, and technology, and is excellent for its attention to detail. Skewed Residence splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.
Interviews
Design Interview
What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?
Simple aesthetics, a minimal material palette and connections to nature are the main drivers of the design of the Skewed House
What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?
The standalone 11,000-square-foot villa seeks to create an oasis of serenity in Surat’s typical urban milieu through a programme that departs from typical planning of this typology. Simply stating, in contrast to the way the urban areas are developing, we wanted to create a space which experiences the bliss of nature and hence aimed at controlling the lavishness of the house and leaving more space for garden.
What are your future plans for this award winning design?
There are no specific future plans. But, we would never hesitate to register the design to any new award or publication platform that spreads its reach to a wider range of people, as we believe it is a way to come in touch of people with similar inclination and beliefs.
And as far as the future of the building is concerned, we are blessed to see the clients maintaining it with the same amount of care the way we built it.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- Simple aesthetics, a minimal material palette and connections to nature are the main drivers of the design of the Skewed House,the architect’s debut through his firm Studio Lagom. The standalone 11,000-square-foot villa seeks to create an oasis of serenity in Surat’s typical urban milieu through a programme that departs from typical planning of this typology.
- Tags
- tropicalexperience, luxury, villa, waterbody, pooja, kalamkari, modern, contemorary, connection, naturallight, exposedconcrete
- Production Technology
- Materials
Flooring: Black Granite
Walls: Concrete and plaster
Slatted compound wall: Valsadi teak
Windows and interior woodwork: Burma teak and Valsadi teak - Design Challenge
- Taking the complete garden on the first floor which connects with entire house was the major challenge. But the research was carried accordingly and it was overcomed by proving a post tensioned slab.
- Inspiration
- The architect’s deep interest in photography helped him visualize this project as a series of interconnected vistas, and was also responsible for the ‘skewedness’ of Skewed House. Manifested subtly as elements shifted slightly off the straight line, this was an exercise in creating vistas and perspectives, and adding more life to a three-dimensional object.
- Project Duration
- The project started in April 2011 in Surat and finished in August 2017 in Surat.
- Operation Flow
- The standalone villa seeks to create an oasis of serenity in typical urban milieu of Surat through a programme that departs from typical planning of this typology.
The connection of inside space with nature, with simple aesthetics are the driving priciples. - Team Members
- Sweta Gajiwala Doriwala
KrutiSheta-Patel (Interior Styling) - Image Credits
- Photographix | Sebastian + Ira
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