Designed with sustainable materials in a defined budget, The Rustic Home shows that creativity and design is not dependant on money. Beautiful yet sustainable designs with limited means can be created if there is a will. A showcase by SURFACES REPORTER (SR).
The design of this home integrates Sustainable and Organic materials with the potentials of nature around as a response to the client’s love for nature and nature’s materials and also as a response to the defined budget for the project.
Entrance
Minimalistic design
The Design is Minimal. It weaves the elements of water, sunlight, shadows & plants with simple unconventional materials to create luxury. It encourages the users to feel the seasons, welcome the birds enjoy the rains & watch the moon.
Study workspace
The unnecessary (for instance a false ceiling) have been eliminated & all that to the clients, give happiness have been embraced, bringing in natural stones & logs into the material palette.
Living Room
Matster Bedroom
The resultant is a Rustic home full of warmth that is a true reflection of the client’s personality, and their tastes & likes.
Terrace
Material Palette
Bamboo, Jute, Ropes, logs have been used in plenty apart from fly ash bricks to create a brick jali/screen and broken. In addition, discarded pieces of stone have been picked up from source to be used as counters, table tops and stepping stones.
Bamboo Pergola
Terrace with Fly Ash Bricks Jaali
Dining Table with discarded stones
Discarded birds’ nests have been used as lamps.
.jpg)
Bird Nest Lamp & Bamboo spouts
The north of the home has been opened up to bring in pleasant natural light and welcome the existing trees around. The water body created by bridging the two isolated terraces helps in passive cooling.
About the architect
Silhouette Architects and designers provides Architecture & Interior design services. Founded by Ar Shebanti Chakraborty, who is Gold Medalist in PG, Urban Design from School of Architecture, C.E.P.T. Ahmedabad in 1995 the firm provide services including Design, Execution & Sanction. Apart from hundreds of Urban and Weekend homes, Silhouette has been designing Corporate offices, Industries, Clinics, Hospitals, Resorts, Restaurants & Retail Showrooms in and around Pune for over the past two decades.
About SURFACES REPORTER's #MetooEarth Campaign on World Environment Day
As part of our ongoing activities towards promoting environment friendly sustainable initiatives, SURFACES REPORTER has started the #MeTooEarth Campaign showcasing selected entries received from people with innovations, initiatives, designs, projects, products and activities from around the design world that inspire and take one step forward towards a eco friendly, sustainable future for all. Keep Watching this space..
#MeTooEarth | Projects & Innovations that will inspire you | World Environment Day Campaign by SURFACES REPORTER
#MeTooEarth | Quick Tour of Delhi Based Architect Nilanjan Bhowal Green Home | Surfaces Reporter
A building with microclimate|Marwah, Jalandhar | #MeTooEarth | World Environment Day, 5 June, 2021 | SR Eco project
Sustainable Design for Masses|5 days- Satsang Event, Rajkot | Studio 919, Ahmedabad, Gujarat | #MeTooEarth | World Environment Day, 5 June, 2021 | SR Eco project
Rugs made from Japanese Washi paper yarns | #MeTooEarth | World Environment Day, 5 June, 2021 | SR Sustainable Material
Keep reading SURFACES REPORTER for more such articles and stories.
Join us in SOCIAL MEDIA to stay updated
SR FACEBOOK | SR LINKEDIN | SR INSTAGRAM | SR YOUTUBE
Further, Subscribe to our magazine | Sign Up for the FREE Surfaces Reporter Magazine Newsletter
Also, check out Surfaces Reporter’s encouraging, exciting and educational WEBINARS here.