For the type studio, we had been to site in Mahabaleshwar. We studies the contour site, mapped the vegetation around, the man made retaining walls and all else things. We also studied the local houses in the village nearby, how the space gets formed inside, presence of various plinths throughout the house.
From the space getting formed in the 'House 02', I identified some patterns like the play of plinths, there was overlap of utility driven spaces, verandah being the most used space, space gets formed by human movement and interaction.
After studying the above mentioned patterns we jumped to the design process wherein I tried to get these observed patterns in my design and how all of them can happen together.
While doing this I mainly focused on keeping the language of plinths and courtyards the same throughout the homestay.
After trying out these, I reached to a design wherein I used the existing retaining walls as one wall of my units and the caretaker's house. The sliding doors to the individual units help keeping visual connectivity of the inside-outside, the outside space of the units have sit-outs which maintain the interaction of people, every unit has verandahs and courtyards shaped around the trees. Floor of one unit becomes roof of another which is accessible and becomes the sun deck. The dorm is as an extension of caretaker's house as an idea of co-living.
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