Twilight courtyard with a marble stair, a reflecting pool and a table set for two
PRIVATE RESIDENCE, MANIPUR, AHMEDABAD Aatmaja VIEW PROJECT

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We build shade. Houses that negotiate with what is already standing on the site, and are quieter for it.

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Dark stone facade approached across a broad ceremonial stair set into deep planting
Dark timber joinery against exposed brick in the kitchen
Vertical interior view along a corridor lined in stone and concrete
Vertical view of the courtyard water body beside the entrance
Family living space drawn as one connected sequence beneath exposed concrete
Vertical detail of stone, brick and timber meeting at an interior threshold
The first-floor living room under its concrete soffit, opening onto the tree canopy
The house seen from the garden at the end of the day, its stone mass above the planting

Aatmaja

MANIPUR, AHMEDABADPRIVATE RESIDENCE12,000 SQ FT

A house lifted above its own ground, entered across water and stone.

VIEW PROJECT
Exposed concrete and brick entrance elevation approached through mature planting
Figure seated at a low table beneath the canopy of a mature tree beside the house
Vertical view of tumbled brick coursing meeting a cast concrete edge
Vertical view through the house toward the garden, framed in exposed concrete
Verandah with hanging swing beneath a board-formed concrete soffit, brick wall to one side
Vertical interior view with reclaimed timber furniture against a tumbled brick accent wall
The main house and recreational outhouse seen across the central lawn
Aerial view of the linear plot, the house, the lawn and the six mature trees

Achyutam

MAMATPURA, AHMEDABADPRIVATE RESIDENCE14,000 SQ FT

The footprint was choreographed around six existing sentinels.

VIEW PROJECT
Curved concrete boundary wall and red laterite entrance screen leading to the carport
Terracotta-plastered bedroom with a floating timber bed and a wall of carved ceramic display niches
Stone-clad bedroom with brass-ribboned pendant lights and a wall of framed bird plates
Panelled sage-green living room with three grey sofas beneath a cluster chandelier of frosted globes
Board-formed concrete corridor overlooking a lawn with wicker chairs beneath a slatted wood soffit

Leela

BHADAJ, AHMEDABADPRIVATE RESIDENCEBOARD-FORMED CONCRETE

A laterite screen and a curved concrete wall announce the house before its name does.

VIEW PROJECT
Ochre lime-plastered entrance portico of a single-storey house seen through tree shadow in low afternoon sun

Architecture

We begin with what the site already holds: the trees, the light, the neighbour’s wall, the direction the wind comes from in May. The plan is the answer to those constraints, not a shape imposed on them.

Private dining room with a single long table beneath a brass ceiling lattice

Interiors

Interiors are not decoration applied afterwards. They are drawn at the same time as the walls, in the same materials, by the same hands. A brick that is exposed outside is exposed inside.

Top-down aerial of the house, its grove and the surrounding fields at the end of the day

Landscape

A garden is not what is left over after the building. On every project we have kept more trees than we have planted, and the plan was moved to do it.

The farmhouse verandah looking out across the planted grove

Three people, one table, and every drawing passing across it.

Vogelkop is a small practice in Ahmedabad, by choice. We take on a limited number of projects each year so that the people who designed your house are the people standing on site when it is built.

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