The Retreat 住宅インテリアデザイン by Keta Shah and Varun Shah is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award 銅賞 in インテリア空間・展示デザイン Competition Category.
銅インテリア· 2020
The Retreat 住宅インテリアデザイン
Client: Workshop Inc
A' Design Award 銅賞 Winner in インテリア Category
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About The Retreat 住宅インテリアデザイン
「The Retreat」は、インドのヴァドーダラー郊外に位置するウィークエンドハウスです。インテリアは、インドの伝統的な住居が持つモノリシックな空間性を現代的な文脈で解釈しています。厚い耐力壁をくり抜いてニッチを設け、ベッドやテーブル、収納として造形し、グレーのセメント仕上げで覆うことで均質な表面を生み出しました。柔らかなブルーとグリーンの色調、木材や金属の要素が空間にアクセントを加えています。一本のレバーで連結されたオーダーメイドの窓は、通風を可能にすると同時に、外に広がる田園風景を額縁のように切り取ります。この穏やかな環境が、シンプルでゆったりとしたライフスタイルを支えています。
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award 銅賞
The Retreat 住宅インテリアデザインは、創造性、独創性、鋭い洞察力で際立つ傑出したデザインに授与される、高い権威をもつ評価である A' Design Award 銅賞の受賞作品です。銅賞の受賞作品は、十分に巧みで印象的なほど創造的な工芸品であり、デザイナーの豊富な経験、想像力、機知を裏づけています。The Retreat 住宅インテリアデザインは、高く評価され、称賛され、愛される品であり、顕著にプロフェッショナルで革新的であることが期待されます。この A' Design Award 銅賞を受賞したデザインは、芸術・科学・デザイン・技術のベストプラクティスを取り入れており、細部への配慮に優れています。The Retreat 住宅インテリアデザインは、ニーズを見事に満たし、欲求に触れ、感情を魅了し、好奇心を引きつけます。
Behind the Design
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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- The Retreat is a weekend home that takes cues from the monolithic spatiality of vernacular Indian houses, in a contemporary context. The monolithic shell creates surfaces to sit, sleep and incorporate other functions. The material palette plays with textures and soft colours to enliven a stark space, which focuses only on the essentials. It offers a homogenous space and a clutter-free environment that focuses on a simple, relaxed lifestyle and mental wellbeing.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Built up Area: 205 sq mt.
- Tags
- residence interiors, indian interiors, indian residence, weekend home, home, house interior, farmhouse
- Production Technology
- The interiors are designed within an existing single-storied, load bearing structure with 18" thick walls. To create a homogenous environment, walls were carved in to create niches, and modulate the surfaces as beds, tables or storage, and enveloped with a cement texture. Repurposing an outdoor planter into the circular centre table and old brass glasses into light fixtures, the design delves into the uniquely Indian characteristic of "Jugaad" - non-conventional and frugal innovations that come about due to restrictions of cost and the availability of materials.
- Design Challenge
- Most of the furniture is custom-made or built at site to blend with the surfaces. The challenge was also to develop a simple system for the fenestration that allows for maximum openings at a minimum budget. The design of a series of window panes connected by a single lever that also functions as the handle, was an exercise in simple mechanics. This system is used throughout the house and allows for cross ventilation to keep the house cool in its hot and dry weather.
- Research
- Field Research
Objectives: To study the vernacular houses of the region to design a space that is rooted in the context
Methodology & Tools: Photographic and illustrative documentation during field visit. Analysis post visit.
Insights: Situated in a rural India, the mud houses respond to the hot & dry climatic conditions of the region. A single material, mud plaster, envelopes the floor and the walls to make the space cool, sustainable, and hygienic. Owing to economic limitations, furniture is bare minimum, and storage and ledges are created within the walls for various functions. - Inspiration
- Located outside the city of Vadodara, The Retreat is envisioned as an escape from the chaos, noise and the fast-paced life of the city. Inspired from the vernacular mud houses found in the surrounding vicinity, a subdued natural material palette is used to create a cocoon to recharge yourself from the daily grind. The premise was to use local knowledge and create a liveable space using that keeps you grounded and as close to nature as possible.
- Project Duration
- The project is Located in Vadodara, India. The project duration was 10 months and was completed in March 2019.
- Operation Flow
- The weekend home consists of two bedrooms and a fluid living space that incorporates the living areas, dining, kitchen, bar and lots of free space to lounge. Custom designed fenestrations allow for maximum openings, and frame the greens outside. The vaulted ceiling defines the central bay of the house and visually leads to the outdoor space that overlooks the fields beyond.
A grey cement texture envelopes the entire space to create a homogenous environment, accented by soft blue and green tones, wood and metal elements. - Team Members
- Architect: Keta Shah
Interior Designer: Varun Shah - Image Credits
- Tejas Shah
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