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TERRACE HOUSE
by Studio Ardete

made with love in India

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Project Location : Sector 36, Chandigarh

Architectural Firm : Studio Ardete

Principal Architects : Badrinath Kaleru, Prerana Kaleru

Plot Area : 8998 sq. ft.

No. of Car Parks :4
No. of Rooms :5
Built-up Area : 8568 sq. ft.
Timeline : August 2015 - October 2018
Cost of Project : Rs. 5,000- 6,000 per sq. ft.

“The project balances luxury and comfort almost too seamlessly.

This dwelling holds all the promise of a quiet living,
away from the bustling city. ”
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Introduction
The Terrace House is an 836 sqm
residential project in one of the
privileged locations of Chandigarh
flanked with a green belt on one
side and a view to the Shivaliks,
juxtaposed against Corbusier’s
urban landscape.
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Concept
Our primary design response was to me! It should always say,“Look at
encourage the occupant of the space this!” The most irrefutable thing was
to be in a constant dialogue with to raise the common leisure zone to
either nature or art and sometimes the top of the house.
with both. The terrace is morphed into an
In response to David Craib’s quote observation deck as it captures a
“Design should never say, Look at snap of the hills.
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Ground Floor Plan Ground Floor

The ground floor plan is a drama between three
zones. It grades from public space like the great
room and living area ambiguously interlocked
with semi-private areas of the kitchen, dining
lounge and family lounge that finally meets the
private bedrooms at the rear end.
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First Floor Plan First floor

The first floor is a Lego arrangement of three
bedrooms each having its own private terrace.
The spatial quality of these terraces is unique to
one another. The master bedroom is intentionally
a trapezoidal plan to re-orient the room for best
vista, re-emphasize the importance of biophilia.
and allow for a free flow of energy along borders.
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Courtyard
The central courtyard houses an
art installation rather than greens
because the house is outward-
looking.
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Lower Terrace Plan Landscape

The canopy of trees from the green belt gives an
illusion of an infinite green to the terrace garden.
It is this introduction of raw greens that makes
the swimming pool sensual and it becomes a part
of something more than a physical activity.
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Upper Terrace Plan Co-living with nature

The way design responds to nature is sometimes
almost too literal like the stone laying around
the existing mango trees and at other times it is
in the form of art left to the imagination of the
occupant. There is a construction sincerity that
prevails as levels interplay with each other to
balance the depth of the pool with the terrace
level.
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Sequential Experience
As one meanders through the like a carved courtyard, glass
living spaces on the ground your bricks, louvers, pergolas, and other
own existentiality is felt by the openings catalyze dialogue between
translucent par1titions. It aids as a the observer and observed via the
visual invitation to spaces above and play of light, shade, ventilation and
beyond you. Nature almost always the colors of nature.
sees you naked through the large
glass doors and windows. Elements
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Elevations
Elevation A : Front Elevation
Elevation B : Left-side Elevation
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Sections
Section X : Section through the Central Courtyard
Section Y : Section through thr Spiral Staircase
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Conclusion
At some parts, the flooring of most times as wall-art where the
everyday spaces - the bedroom and reflection of you becomes nature.
the terrace merges, blurring the The observer becomes the subject
boundaries between what is inside of their observation. It is an attempt
and what we consider outside to redefine nature which leaves
At parts, existentialism is further the occupant cognizant of his/her
exaggerated by mirror mosaic tiles presence.
on ceilings, in chandeliers or at
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Unique Material Application

Cladding: Laminum from Stonex India

Windows: Schucho
Tiles: Nexion
Internal Doors: Garifoli (Italy)
Lighting: Flos
Facade Materials Color: Asian Paints
Sanitaryware: TOTO, Vitra from Gupta Bath World
Wardrobes: Pianca
Modular Kitchen: Alno
Mirrors: Vetromoda
Wooden Flooring: Haro
Air Conditioning: Daikin
Home Automation: Ace Automations
Marble: Stonex India

Key Contributors
Structural: Continental Foundation
Civil: Surinder Singh
Flooring Materials
Lighting: Brainwave
Pool Panel Installations: Reef & Streams
HVAC: Daikin
Plumbing Consultant: Behera & Associates
Electrical Consultant: The Luminars
Pool Consultant: CWG Pools India

Photo Credits Purnesh Dev Nikhanj

Lighting Design
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