23 Degrees Design Shift surrounds multi-generational Hyderabad home with moat
Indian architecture studio 23 Degrees Design Shift has created a five-bedroom weekend home surrounded by a moat near Hyderabad, India.
Named Antriya, the 1,350-square-metre (14,530-square-foot) holiday home for a multi-generational family is located on a five-acre site in Muchintal on the outskirts of Hyderabad.
23 Degrees Design Shift carved out a moat-like channel around the house to prevent snakes and other creatures from crawling in. Within the protective moat, the two-storey, five-bedroom house is arranged around three large khammam sandstone walls that form its primary structure.
"The whole house in a nutshell is designed using three linear stone walls providing a sense of direction, sense of privacy and sense of cosiness through their relative scale," the studio explained.
The first sandstone wall stands alongside the home's main living and entertaining spaces.
On the ground floor it rises alongside an open, veranda-like seating area that opens out onto an outdoor conversation pit. Above this is a secondary seating area as well as the principal bedroom is reached by a sculptural spiral staircase.
The second wall runs across the home separating the living areas – kitchen, living and dining spaces, from four en-suite bedrooms on the ground floor.
Finally, a third wall extends from the house towards the entrance driveway and forms the main structure of an adjoining pool house.
All side of the home are shaded by eight- to 10-feet-deep plant-covered cantilevered slabs that help reduce heat gain.
Inside, the space is characterised by materials that set the home apart from a "regular city home".
"Having lived in plush city homes all their life, this weekend home is conceived as a space which brings the user as close as possible to a true, genuine and less-processed form of the materials," said 23 Degrees Design Shift.
The team chose lime-based plaster for the walls and ceilings, paired with Markapur slate flooring.
"Markapur slate for flooring offers a smooth yet undulating surface, encouraging the users to walk barefoot," said the studio.
Tactile materials such as live-edge furniture and jute furnishings are dotted around the house, teamed with black metal hardware and light fixtures.
Around the house, 23 Degrees Design Shift covered the site with open lawns strewn with coconut trees, shrubs and a vineyard. A dense plantation of taller trees was created along the site's edges.
Apart from the vegetation, the team added a cricket practice area and an ATV mud track for the client's children.
23 Degrees Design Shift is an architecture and design practice based in Hyderabad, India. It is led by Raghuram alongside Srikanth Reddy and Neelesh Kumar.
Elsewhere in Hyderabad, Iki Builds completed a home crafted with local materials and construction rubble and local practice A01 Architects created a contemporary sculptural home drawing on traditional architecture.
The photography is by Shamanth Patil.
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