Virendra K Girdhar
architect
RESIDENTIAL / VILLAS
All too often we trim the trees to glimpse the sky, and spoil the slope for a specific site. We create our own environments by destroying that which exists and existed before we snared the site. -VKG
V K Girdhar Residence
Bangalore
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This 3000sft house built on a 29’x80’ site in the heart of Bangalore is a cumulative response to perceptual and physical requirements and goals, synthesized with environmental, climatic and locational implications. It is built on a site, specifically acquired in the heart of the city, within easy reach of the activities and facilities, which make urban living complete. The site came with three major blessings – all of them, trees. Naturally, the decision was to save them. Most prominent was a 50 year old cassia towards the middle of the site, now successfully integrated inside the house. The other two trees shade a pleasant environment out in the front garden.
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The house is an introverted unit that caters to the requirements of privacy and protection from environmental and noise pollution. Most of the rooms are oriented towards an internal, glass roofed garden that partly houses the Cassia. Just nothing separates the entrance, living space, indoor garden, dining level and study area. The fluid spaces substitutes for the dearth of physical space. Most of the rooms are generally of minimum working size, but feel a lot more spacious.
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The voluminous internal garden keeps the house comfortable. The skylight brings in all the varying moods of day and night and synthesizes of the indoors with the outdoors . The house nurtures a vital living environment with a balanced mix of conservation and experimentation for an unusually dynamic living space.
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Bangalore
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Rustagi Farm House
Bangalore
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This is one of the few buildings where we played with the form for forms sake. This is a small site close to the entrance- so it turns its back to the road and towards the landscape and pool. An out house is connected to a the main house with a covered walkway covered by a pergola. It is a L-shape plan, the two legs of the L act like walls and shield the house from the urban environment. All the walls on the street side have small openings and walls facing the private outdoor space are open with windows.
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Bangalore
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Mahajan Residence
Bangalore
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Inside of the house is like a piece of infinity - a limitless space horizontally and vertically.
-VKG
A private microcosm: a complete environment, infinite space within finite constraints. This is the Mahajan house in Bangalore designed by Virendra K Girdhar. It contains both highly expressive architecture as well as the quieter features of a home. But everywhere, the conceptual element is in evidence. As with all good architecture, it meets the many needs of its occupants – and goes well beyond the expected.
