Traditional joinery

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Merging with the Context: Wall cladding designed to resonate with the background of quarried rock on the Aravali Range.

Raj Karan Designs

Entrance Foyer - A play of natural materials and textures awakening the senses at the entrance itself

In the Drawing room experiencing play of textures through natural locally available materials.

Steel Girders with Stone Slabs (Tukdi) for the ceiling design. Translating local construction technique to contemporary space.

Project • By Raj Karan Designs • Individual Buildings

Flux Farm

The site is a hide away, embraced by the Aravali Range with its greenery punctuated by quarried Rock, Kota village and the ITC golf course.The client being a golf enthusiast and having farming as a hobby, desired to use the place as a weekend getaway from his city life. Client’s brief was to create a farmhouse which would merge with its surroundings. Finishes were to have minimum required maintenance as the place would be used only once in a week. The vocabulary of the place was identified to resonate with the client’s personality - a symphony of contemporary and rustic. The site is of 3 acres, zoning of the which has been done in three parts, Main House, Servant Quarters and the Fields. 1.5 acres allocated to the fields and... More

Project • By Luigi Rosselli Architects • Housing

Oculi House

Heritage listing is not the only prerequisite to preserve and enhance an old charming house. Designed by William Hardy Wilson and built in 1927, the original house saw some alterations carried out in the 1960s and 1970s, and the work most recently completed by this office sought to reinstate and valorise some of its original simplicity. While this house is not heritage listed, it is a significant piece of Sydney architecture that deserved considerate attention. New additions to the original house were tucked over, under and behind the existing fabric and designed in such a way that they would be complimentary to the original design, as if they had always been there. A new wing sits at the rear of the house facing on to the rear yard a... More