The Retreat Fungsi Utama: Desain Interior Rumah Tinggal by Keta Shah and Varun Shah

The Retreat Fungsi Utama: Desain Interior Rumah Tinggal by Keta Shah and Varun Shah is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award Gangsa in Interior Competition Category.

GangsaInterior· 2020

The Retreat Fungsi Utama: Desain Interior Rumah Tinggal

by Keta Shah and Varun Shah

Client: Workshop Inc

A' Design Award Gangsa Winner in Interior Category

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The Design

About The Retreat Fungsi Utama: Desain Interior Rumah Tinggal

Teks Buku: The Retreat adolah rumah akhia pakan nan taletak di pinggiran Vadodara, India. Interior ko mangambiak inspirasi dari spasialitas monolitik rumah tradisional India dalam konteks kontemporer. Dindiang tabal nan manahan beban diukia manjadi ceruk sarato dibantuak manjadi tampek tidua, meja, jo tampek panyimpanan, kudian ditutuik jo tekstur semen abu-abu untuak mambantuak permukaan nan homogen. Nuansa biru jo hijau nan lambuik, sarato elemen kayu jo logam manjadi aksen ruangan tu. Jendela custom nan disambuangkan jo satu tuas mamungkinkan ventilasi silang sarato mambingkai hamparan sawah di lua. Suasana nan tanang ko mandukuang gaya iduik nan sederhana jo santai.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Gangsa

The Retreat Fungsi Utama: Desain Interior Rumah Tinggal adolah pamenang A' Design Award Gangsa, sabuah pangakuan nan sangaik bapresti nan dibarikan ka rancangan nan cemerlang nan dicirikan dek kreativitas, kacerdikan jo kabijaksanaan. Pamenang Gangsa adolah karya nan cukuik mahir jo kreatif sacaro mangesankan nan mamastikan pangalaman nan luas, imajinasi jo kacerdikan parancangnyo. The Retreat Fungsi Utama: Desain Interior Rumah Tinggal dipaokan manjadi bando nan sangaik dihormati, dikagumi jo disayangi, nan profesional jo inovatif sacaro nampak. Rancangan nan manang Gangsa iko mamuek praktik tabaik dalam seni, ilimu, rancangan jo teknologi jo cemerlang dalam parhatian ka rincian. The Retreat Fungsi Utama: Desain Interior Rumah Tinggal mamanuhi kaparluan jo elok, manyantuah karinduan, mamikaik parasaan jo manarik raso ingin tahu.

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