A bungalow house in stacked low-rise volumes.

Location: Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
Architect: Anagram Architects
Design Team: Vaibhav Dimri, Madhav Raman, Ayush Prakash, Trisha Gupta
Site Area: 900 sqm
Project Area: 715 sqm (BUA)
Civil Contractors: Various Sub Contractors
Structural Engineers: Arohi Consultants
Other Consultants: Electrical – Squaretech Engineers, Plumbing – DSR Engineering Services
Site Supervision: Anagram Architects
Model-Maker: INHOUSE
Initiation of Project: June 2016
Completion of Project: December 2018
Photo Credit: Suryan/Dang

A bungalow house in stacked low-rise volumes around a manicured lawn intended for social gatherings.
A bungalow house in stacked low-rise volumes around a manicured lawn intended for social gatherings.
A spacious formal living room that is naturally ventilated by large windows and has a view of the lawn.
A spacious formal living room that is naturally ventilated by large windows and has a view of the lawn.
A bright and airy dining area that connects to the kitchen.
A bright and airy dining area that connects to the kitchen.
A view of the dining and kitchen with a beam partition that connects the dining table, making the idea unique.
A view of the dining and kitchen with a beam partition that connects the dining table, making the idea unique.
The stair was designed in a unique way, with open wooden shelving and a pin hole that illuminated the area.
The stair was designed in a unique way, with open wooden shelving and a pin hole that illuminated the area.
A large and light-filled bedroom with a full-width window and door leading to the lawn.
A large and light-filled bedroom with a full-width window and door leading to the lawn.
A bathroom with a one-of-a-kind sink design paired with cove lighting.
A bathroom with a one-of-a-kind sink design paired with cove lighting.
The upper veranda provides a relaxing view of the surrounding greenery.
The upper veranda provides a relaxing view of the surrounding greenery.
A colonnaded verandah that runs along both levels of the facade and serves as a continuous buffer between the residence and the front lawn.
A colonnaded verandah that runs along both levels of the facade and serves as a continuous buffer between the residence and the front lawn.
Aerial view of a bungalow house on a substantially smaller plot.
Aerial view of a bungalow house on a substantially smaller plot.
Th BungaLOW elevation plan.
Th BungaLOW elevation plan.
The BungaLOW ground floor plan.
The BungaLOW ground floor plan.
The BungaLOW first and terrace floor plan.
The BungaLOW first and terrace floor plan.
The BungaLOW section plan.
The BungaLOW section plan.

With frugal beginnings, the bungalow residential typology’s various evolutions reached their post-colonial zenith of opulence, sub-urbanism and privilege in the late 1990’s.

Subsequently, enhanced pressures on urban land and liberalised real-estate market forces reduced the ubiquity of the large land parcels required for bungalows (typically upwards of 4000 sqm).

That scarcity, however, continues to substantially elevate the aspirational desire to live in one. This project interrogates the Delhi bungalow typology on a substantially smaller plot.

Built on a 900 sqm plot in the NOIDA suburb to Delhi, this design is home to a nuclear family at the cusp of becoming a multi-generational household. The 4 bedroom suites and family spaces are slung, in stacked low-rise volumes, peripherally around a manicured lawn meant for social gathering.

A private green rises onto the rooftop of the more public program of the formal living, dining and home-office, segregated into the angled Northeast wing.

A colonnaded verandah that runs along both levels of the facade providing a contiguous buffer to the residence from the front lawn. The rooms recess behind the verandah which protects from the high summer sun.

Porcelain tiles on a minimal steel lattice enhance shade to the verandah, referencing the roll-up blinds or fixed trellises traditionally used to reduce glare. The patterns is designed for the solar angles of the Northwest facing site and daylight and thermal comfort levels required indoors.

The design is consistent to the bungalow typology of ordered low density volumes and similarly uses a contiguous colonnaded verandah as a formal privacy and thermal buffer.

The architecture adopts a more contemporary approach to typology’s typically maximal programmatic connect with the outdoors (E.g. through the rooftop family green ) and responds to the Eclectic Modern tastes of the family (E.g. in its reinterpretation of traditional shading devices)

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