Beautiful Buildings Around The World Part 3 - Drift House on Little Much Farm

I came across this amazing house recently and fell in love.  It's on a hill side overlooking the Sahyadri hills of Mulshi and its lake, in Little Much Farm in  Nandivali, India.  The house was designed by Shonan Purie Trehan of  Language.Architecture.Body (LAB).

The site has many view points and extreme weather conditions, the design of the roof provides shelter from the harsh sun and monsoon rains.  Three mono pitch steel roofs slant in different directions and float above the exterior and interior spaces.  A ship building fabrication team built the steel structure on site.  Exposed concrete columns hold up the roof planes and allow for large roof overhangs to shelter the deck and interior spaces.

Three distinct blocks are constructed along the slope of the hill keeping the number of retaining walls to a minimum.  The central block is double volume and connects to the upper floor of the western block and the lower floor of the eastern block.  The blocks are tied together by a deck which is on the first floor of one block, the ground floor of another and then the garden and the entry ramp. 

The interiors are just as spectacular as the exteriors - notice how the triangular trusses are celebrated rather than being hidden behind ceiling board.  In this house angles (and triangles) are celebrated!

I love the slide next to the staircase - big enough for adults indulging their inner child...

Drift House is a spectacular building and I look forward to seeing more of Shonan Purie Trehan and LAB's work.

Photos by Sebastian Zacharia

Sources & Further Reading -

http://labwerk.in/portfolio/little-much-farm/

https://www.houzz.in/pro/languagearchitecturebody/lab-language-architecture-body

https://www.archdaily.com/915798/drift-house-on-little-much-farm-shonan-purie-trehan-plus-languagrchitecturody-lab 

http://www.home-review.com/2015/05/my-space-shonan-purie-trehan/

http://labwerk.in/

I am originally from the UK and moved to South Africa in 1999.  I started Blue Designs in 2004 after working as a driver for Avalon Construction on a luxury home in the Featherbrook Estate.  In my spare time I am an artist and writer (The Naked Architect).

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The Advantages of Sustainable Building

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Renovation vs New Construction - which is Greener and Better for the Environment?

Bizarre Buildings Part Two - Space Age Fantasy

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