RENAISSANCE: September 2010

Saturday, September 18, 2010

M V diabetes centre, Royapuram

Interior design concept for MV diabetes centre at Royapuram

Sunday, September 5, 2010

House at Selaiyur

Proposed compact duplex house for Mr.Balaji at Selaiyur. Compact doesn’t mean less space. In this case the client preferred more open space for landscape and little for comfortable living. The ground floor accommodates a spacious hall/dining, sizable bed room, a kitchen and also a small room for prayers. The first floor has a central lobby connecting bed, study and terrace. The most interesting element is the spiral stair from the first floor terrace leading to the first floor roof.

Saturday, September 4, 2010

Parks in parkcity

row of allamanda (two bedroom duplex houses) facing park

pathway leads to central court

stone pillars supporting pergola above a waterbody of lillies

stone benches adjoing walkers track

Parkcity Rose

Parkcity "Rose" (typical compact two bed house)

parkcity row houses

Row of Allamanda (two bed house with a terrace on the front)

Parkcity visitors office

The picture shows the parkcity visitors office located facing the main entrance of the site adjoining a park

Philosophy

Clean and simple

People sometimes equate good design with expensive lavish materials and ornate trim in over abundance to the point of overwhelming the viewer. “ Less is more” does hold true. The quality of space is much more important than quality or amount of “decoration”. Clean and simple surfaces can be intresting and sophisticated given the right composition of form, materials, proportion, colour, texture, etc. Although they may sometimes be appropriate, trim and molding are more utilised by contractors to hide misaligned materials, rough edges and poor craft. They intensify and emphasize the superficial, while distracting from the subtle beauty and order of the essential architecture.

Our scope and services

Preliminary services:

Advice on choosing a building site (or measure existing building.)

Programming:

A written description of your needs, which is used as the basis for design.

Schematic design:

Sketches of various alternate schemes that will satisfy your program. After receiving your comments, a single scheme is developed.

Design development:

Drawings, outline specifications, and estimates that further describe the size and character of the project.

Contract documents:

Working drawings and specifications describe the work in detail. They are used for competitive bidding and for construction of the building.

Administration:

Site visits from time to time to assist the contractor with interpretation of the contract documents and to verify that the work conforms to the documents