The house is designed on a plot measuring 4800 sft for two brothers. The plot is located in a typical Indian neighbourhood flanking a busy street. The dense residential fabric of the neighbourhood, proximity of the neighbours and the busy street in front prompted us to conceive an introverted building. Diagrammatically, the program of the house was laid out in the form that wraps around a courtyard. The open to sky courtyard, not only becomes the point of interest and activity within the house but also represents the ‘outside’ within the introverted house. The interiority of the house is designed to revolve around the experience of the garden.

The program is expressed as horizontal bars across the courtyard. The puja room is further conceptualised as part of the courtyard. The puja and the courtyard then become the focus of the house for the various functions. Due to its transparency, the courtyard also acts as an extension to all the functions around it.