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Architecture

J-House
Brand: J-House
Client: Private owner
Entrant: Malik Architecture

Blue Elephant

Entry Title:	J-House
Brand:	J-House
Client:	Private owner
Entrant Company:	Malik Architecture
Description:	The streets of Khar used to be lined with low-rise homes set back from the street and hidden behind trees. Densification and demand for floor space has transformed these neighborhoods into rows of tall structures battling for light and air. Major design parameters were: -Re-establish a substantive relationship with the street and eliminate the presence of a massive building at the street eye-level -Mediate with the sea on the west to allow for permanent visibility/ semi-covered spaces -Bind the core of the building to work against the separation inducing stratification of the high-rise By accommodating the parking within the basement, the street level, up to a height of 11.0m is devoid of residential spaces. Instead, structure and volume are set back from the street and organised within a garden shaded by the cantilevered residential volumes above. The individual “bungalows” are planned around central north-facing courtyards. The deep shaded apertures to the North create an abstract pattern of openings. The eastern and western edges are thickened to accommodate shaded verandahs, protected with operable metal screens. As a result the building appears to be a mystery, an outlier in the skyline, an organism to be observed carefully before it reveals its anatomy.
Company Credits:	Malik Architecure
Individual Credits:	Arjun Malik
Individual Credits:	Ketan Chaudhary
Individual Credits:	Rucha Pimprikar
Individual Credits:	Anjum Shaikh
Individual Credits:	Jignesh Vadhia
Individual Credits:	Shikha Jain
Individual Credits:	Vama Garimella