Best of Villa Buildings
MIRAI HOUSE OF ARCHES
Designer / Agency
- SANJAY
Category
- Villa Buildings
Award
- 2024 SILVER
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PROJECT
DESCRIPTION
Designed on a small corner plot of 622 sqm within a residential villa layout, Mirai is a contextual house in response to the hot desert climate of Rajasthan , India.
Based on the location, the southern & eastern sides have minimum open space with adjacent villas on those sides to be built in the future. The northern and western sides fronting a road junction have more open spaces with garden areas & existing trees.
Planned for a family with 3 generations living together, the house has 3 levels with 4 bedrooms, 2 living rooms, a gym and a study.
Sectionally the heights within are varied with an interesting play of volumes in each part of the house, bedrooms of a single volume, dining area of a double volume & a living area of an intermediate 1.5 level volume.
A curvilinear punctuated envelope surrounds the house creating interstitial semi open spaces all along the perimeter with deeper recesses on the garden facing sides. This envelope reduces the heat gain substantially whilst providing sheltered open spaces around the house to each room.
Designed to mitigate heat gain in response to the hot avid climate of its location, this envelope keeps the entire house cool in the hot summer months with temperatures in excess of 40°C for 8 months of the year.
This sculptural house is contextual to its surroundings, the climate & the owners needs creating an interesting play of volumes, open enclosed & semi enclosed spaces at every level.
The design creates energy efficient spaces with reduced heat gain & indirect natural light in each part of the house.
Built of locally sourced bricks, sandstone & lime plaster with local craftsmen & contract labor from the immediate vicinity, water recycling, rain water harvesting & solar panels for energy generation . The house is built sustainably & is climate responsive.
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Agency: SANJAY
Sanjay Puri Architects have been ranked at number 32 on Archello’s list of Top 100 architects worldwide and are listed in Arch daily’s list of Top 100 architects worldwide and in the WA UK top 100 architectural firms as well as the Architizer New York’s top130 architecture firms in the world.
Winning the Overall Sustainable Design firm of the Year in the Architizer A+ Awards New York 2024 , Winning the WA UK International Architect of the Year 2024 , The Best Completed Building – Production Energy & Logistics in the World Architecture Festival, Singapore 2023, Createurs Design Awards-Best residential project worldwide Paris 2023, The LOOP Design Awards -Best Large architectural firm, The Best housing Project worldwide in the World Architecture Festival , Lisbon 2022, The LEAF Awards London, Best interior project 2021, the firm has won over 475 awards including 350 International design awards. Sanjay Puri Architects is number 1, topping the Architizer List of Best Architecture Firms in India for consecutive years and is the only Architecture Firm to have won the CW Construction World India's Top Ten Architects for 19 consecutive years.
The firm with founding partners Sanjay Puri & Nina Puri have won architectural projects in Australia, Spain, Montenegro, UAE, Oman & Dallas USA and are currently involved in the design of projects in 51 Indian cities.
Sanjay has been on the jury of the World Architecture Festivals in Barcelona, Singapore, Berlin, Amsterdam & Lisbon being the first Indian architect to be on the jury. Sanjay has also been a judge for The Architectural Review Awards, UK, Dezeen Awards, UK, The Plan Awards, Italy, Inde Awards, Australia and been a speaker at several international & national conventions.
Sanjay is a registered member of the RIBA, UK, Society of American Registered Architects (SARA, New York), Indian Institute of Architecture (IIA), Indian Institute of Interior Designers(IIID) and has been a part of the Heritage Conservation Committee, New Delhi.
With a current firm strength of 108, evolving design solutions that are contextual and sustainable and creating spaces that explore spatial perceptions, with new design directions forms the essence of the firm’s design philosophy..
