INTERIOR
RESIDENTIAL
AHMEDABAD, GUJARAT
PROJECT TYPE
RESIDENTIAL | INTERIOR
LOCATION
AHMEDABAD, GUJARAT
COMPLETED
AREA
4000 SQ. FT
PROJECT STATUS
idea
The apartment is made through the coming together of things—large and small, permanent and movable, architectural and domestic. Its identity emerges in the spaces between them, through the way each element meets another and through the way the inhabitant moves among them. It is an assemblage experienced over time: assembled by design, and completed through living. This is where मेल finds its meaning.
DESIGN TEAM
AR NETRA BAFNA, AR HITARTH MAJITHIYA
PHOTOGRAPHER
MKG STUDIO
The apartment is experienced as a gradual coming together. From the darker timbered passage, one moves into a broad, light-filled living and dining space where the boundaries between rooms begin to soften. There is no single point from which the interior reveals itself. Instead, it unfolds through a succession of views: a console appearing along one wall, a cluster of lights suspended above the dining table, the edge of a chair, the artwork beyond, and the long expanse of the windows drawing daylight deep into the room.
build
The material palette reinforces this experience. A dark stone floor runs continuously beneath the principal spaces, becoming a common ground for the lighter upholstered furniture. Timber gathers around the circulation and extends overhead, bringing a warmer and more enclosed character to the route towards the private rooms. Against these deeper surfaces, the pale living room walls catch the changing daylight.
At the centre, furniture gives the open volume its measure. Generous sofas gather around low, dark stone tables, creating a place for conversation and pause. Beyond them, the dining table establishes another centre of activity. The spaces between these pieces remain open, allowing one to move through and around them while continually encountering different relationships between furniture, architecture and objects. The room feels composed, but not fixed; its order comes from occupation as much as from construction.
live
Their vertical articulation creates a sequence of shallow shadows, making the wall perceptible through the movement of light across it. Circular openings in the ceiling appear sequentially overhead, while the inlaid lines in the stone floor follow the direction of travel, turn around corners and lead back towards the living space. These details are encountered while moving through the home; they become markers of one's position within it.
A painting occupies the far end of the living space; ceramics sit quietly on the console; plants interrupt the timber and stone; sculptural lights hang above the dining area.
As the spaces become private, the atmosphere deepens. Timber, darker tones, upholstered surfaces and patterned walls create a more intimate setting, with the bedroom compositions becoming closer to the body and quieter in their expression.
