Bangalore-based architect Gaurav Roy Choudhury has designed the Lateral House.
Completed in 2013, this 3,600 square foot contemporary home is located in Bangalore, India. The open plan interior features several mezzanine levels, all looking over the heart of the home, offering a grand atmosphere. The mezzanine becomes the mid level combining with the lower and upper level (more private) superfluously, yet maintaining the strict visual connects of entitled privacy of each, i.e. light and sky for the living and light and view for the upper level. The mid level opens into the north facing courtyard (above the car park), the heart of the house. The house gets its light, ventilation from this garden/ courtyard as the bedrooms wrap around it. It is here where every day and night seeps into the house in their difference over the changing seasons. Height has been used as a privacy element and the staircase as an element of dramatic transformation. The brick facades on the elevations and courtyard express the house’s subtle relationship with the outside, as the projecting bricks cast varying shadows each day peculiar to that moment. The lateral house embellishes itself with simplicity and subtle beauty.
Photos by: Tina Nandi
