Row house renovation
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Project • By RP Architects Pondicherry • Private Houses
Latchya Illam
Location: Belkis street, Muthialpet, Pondicherry.
Plot size: 14’6” x 68’8”
Plinth area: 1906 sqft
Budget: 32 Lakhs rupees.
Road: East and West side.
Architect: Ramya Prasad, RP Architects.
Photography: Aswin Yegappan SP, Ramya Prasad.
Clients: Mr. Saravana Coumar, Mrs. Aadirai Saravana Coumar – Artland art teachers.
Latchya illam, is a sustainable house built on a family heritage land with a part consisting of an old parent’s house, which has been there for generations with lots of childhood memories for the clients. The house is located in a dense urban fabric of row houses in the city of Pondicherry.
Aswin Yegappan SP
The site has road access on both east and west side and sandwiched betwe... More
News • News • 16 Mar 2021
tmSN House converts industrial fabric into a sustainable live/work concept
In Sint-Niklaas, Belgium, tmSN House by BLAF architecten is a renovation of an existing property containing living quarters and a warehouse. On a city centre site with little open space, the clients had a dream to start their own practice but also achieve a suitable co-working space that allows cross-over between disciplines.
Stijn Bollaertn
Considering the limitations and possibilities of the site, BLAF took on the task of preserving and renovating the existing buildings. Themes such as density, a mix of functions, mobility, collectivity and various types of housing and energy models were considered along with the purely technical aspects of sustainable construction.
The existing site has an L-shape and a specific rhythm of building... More