NG
Residence
2024
KOTA STONE • BRICKS • TERRAZZO • TEAKWOOD • VIETNAM WHITE MARBLE • OAK • PATTERNED GLASS • STUCCO • EXPOSED RCC • JAISALMER SANDSTONE • PORCELAIN MOSAIC • BRASS • WICKER
How does one evoke the nostalgia of Corbusian Ahmedabad inside a high-rise apartment? NG Apartment takes on this challenge by translating the architectural language of the city’s modernist past within the interior, capturing not just the bold rectilinear geometries of exposed bricks and concrete surfaces, but also their structural and elemental details, their ideologies and aesthetic sensibilities.
“The space should not feel like an apartment, but rather like a home, where the essence of modernist Ahmedabad lingers, in its materials, in its textures and the air.”
A brick vault spans across the hallway. At both ends, mirrors reflect the curve of the ceiling creating an illusion of an “endless brick vault”.
A continuous wooden datum running along the walls, recalls the Corbusian affinity with proportion and order.
The lounge marks a distinct departure from the material palette of the remaining house. It is designed to feel like a retreat.
Tucked away in a corner of the house, this room is designed like a den—an escape from the everyday.
“We weren’t chasing a style, we were chasing a feeling. And that feeling... it had to belong to the city.”
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Images by Ishita Sitwala