Cutting Edge House: double-height living room.

Cutting Edge House

Residence · Sujay Garden, Pune · 2017

MUSE Design Awards · Platinum 2019

Type
Private residence
Location
Sujay Garden, Pune
Completed
2017
Scope
Architecture and interiors To confirm
Area
To confirm
Photography
To confirm
Recognition
MUSE Design Awards, Platinum, New York, 2019
Press
Architect & Interiors India, April 2020
Archello, 2018

A private house in Sujay Garden, Pune, arranged around a double-height living room and a planted courtyard wall.

The studio’s project list records an architectural concept for the house in 2016 and the completed interiors in 2017. Two years later the house won Platinum at the MUSE Design Awards in New York.

The photographs below follow the house in the order a visitor meets it: the street facade, the living room, the courtyard, the private floors and the terrace.

Text written from the photographs and the studio’s project list. The studio should confirm it and add the brief, the site and the main design idea.

01

Facade

From the street the house reads as stacked white planes. A screen of staggered openings, some of them planted, filters light and views.

Cutting Edge House: street facade.
Street facade01 / 46
Cutting Edge House: facade panels with staggered, planted openings.
Facade panels with staggered, planted openings05 / 46
Cutting Edge House: exterior from the street corner.
Exterior from the street corner03 / 46

02

Living

The living room rises two storeys. Timber shelving runs the full height of one wall, and sheer blinds soften the glazing opposite.

Cutting Edge House: living room: full-height timber shelving and sheer blinds.
Living room: full-height timber shelving and sheer blinds11 / 46

From above, the room reads as one long space: a large sectional sofa, a group of low tables and a reading chair by the blinds.

Cutting Edge House: the living room from above.
The living room from above14 / 46

From the first line

Sketch to room

Drag across the living room to move between the drawing and the finished space.

Cutting Edge House: living room opening onto the planted courtyard.
Living room opening onto the planted courtyardSketch is a placeholder for the studio’s drawing

03

Courtyard

The living room looks onto a courtyard wall of rust-toned panels and a dark, rippled surface set with sculptures, with a vertical garden alongside.

Cutting Edge House: vertical garden beside a dark rippled wall.
Vertical garden beside a dark rippled wall19 / 46
Cutting Edge House: courtyard wall: rust-toned panels and four sculptures.
Courtyard wall: rust-toned panels and four sculptures18 / 46

04

Private floors

Bedrooms and the kitchen keep to grey, timber and white, with colour brought in through single pieces: orange cushions, a yellow kitchen, a hexagonal feature wall.

Cutting Edge House: bedroom with a hexagonal feature wall and orange cushions.
Bedroom with a hexagonal feature wall and orange cushions24 / 46
Cutting Edge House: bedroom with a timber wall and warm cove lighting.
Bedroom with a timber wall and warm cove lighting21 / 46
Cutting Edge House: kitchen with yellow cabinets and a breakfast counter.
Kitchen with yellow cabinets and a breakfast counter35 / 46

05

Terrace

The terrace is lined with tall dark frames that divide it into a sequence of outdoor rooms.

Cutting Edge House: terrace at dusk.
Terrace at dusk43 / 46
Cutting Edge House: terrace at dusk, lit from the floor.
Terrace at dusk, lit from the floor45 / 46

Drawings

Plans and a section explain the house in a way photographs cannot. These frames are reserved for the studio’s drawings.

Site planAwaiting drawing
Floor plansAwaiting drawing
Section through the living roomAwaiting drawing

Materials

Details taken from the photographs. Select one to see where it comes from. Material names to confirm

  • Timber shelvingFrom photograph 11
  • Sheer blindsFrom photograph 11
  • Facade screenFrom photograph 05
  • Planted wallFrom photograph 19
  • Rust-toned panelFrom photograph 19
  • Rippled dark wallFrom photograph 18

Recognition

MUSE Design Awards · New York

Platinum2019

Cutting Edge House, Pune

In the press

  • Architect & Interiors IndiaApril 2020
  • Archello2018

All 46 photographs

In the order you would walk through the house. Select any photograph to view it full screen.

Facade6

Entrance3

Living7

Courtyard4

Private floors14

Kitchen4

Terrace8

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