#skylights

Shilamay A Home That Breathes, Plays, and Belongs Set in the warm landscape of Ahmedabad, this home designed and inhabited by the architect and his family is an intimate experiment in how architecture can be both deeply grounded and joyfully alive. Built with locally sourced stone and finished with traditional lime plaster, the house draws from vernacular wisdom to stay naturally cool through the city’s harsh summers. The lime finish lends a soft, breathing quality to the walls as they age gracefully, holding traces of sunlight, shadow, and time. Every stone surface, both inside and out, tells a story through its changing texture as daylight moves across it. VINAY PANJWANI VINAY PANJWANI VINAY PANJWANI VINAY PANJWA... More

The Journey The wild scenery of Attica, with its rocky hills and olive trees, on the way to the busy port of Lavrio, is the site of this " bespoke" Shell petrol station. Rejecting  the pre- fabricated images of Shell petrol stations chains, that are brought directly to a site, while ignoring its characteristics, was the original source of the idea for a custom-made space that allows the User to be an active participant with the surrounding nature. The building was conceived in such a way that time, porosity, movement, transparency and materiality were the starting points for spatial exploration. Time The journey engages time: a quick time of simple petrol filling, an intermediate that allows for using shower, shop and toilet facilit... More

A house as a child would design it: the slope of the roof allows a strong verticalisation of the rooms, whose space physically penetrates the inclination of the roof through large openings to the outside. The dominant white color works as a three-dimensional sheet of paper, where you can play with the alternation between small and large, between outside and inside, between the sky and the large garden in the back where the ground floor opens. More