In an era where homes often chase identity through maximal finishes or dramatic gestures, this 10,000 sq.ft. residence in Raipur, designed by Studio Baariki, makes a compelling case for the opposite. Sama House, designed for a close-knit family, features a restrained design with clear planning. It achieves grandeur through lightness and proportion, shaped by careful detailing.

Designed For A Close-Knit Family This Home Chases A Maximal Identity | Studio baariki

A Multigenerational Brief

The clients were a close-knit family spanning three generations. They wanted a unified home that worked effortlessly for everyone, from grandparents to children. It needed to age well, stay easy to maintain, and unfurl to host frequent Satsang gatherings. Above all, they insisted on completing the home on time and left the design direction entirely to the architects. Studio Baariki embraced the opportunity with rational planning and creative use of durable, cost-effective materials. They shaped a home that avoids fuss and achieves elegance.

Site and Spatial Intent

The 6,300 sq.ft. site opens to a public garden along its shorter northern edge. This setting shapes a plan focused on light, long views, and adaptability. The designers structure the two-storey house across three longitudinal bays. A central double-height volume forms its social core and draws the garden deep inside. Services line one side, and bedrooms occupy the other. This layout lets living spaces expand for gatherings of the close-knit family while keeping private areas undisturbed.

Layered Entry Experience

One enters the home through an entryway that offers visitors peeks of the inside through vertical slits in its walls. To the right, the pooja appears as a pristine white sanctum. It sits in a double-height volume and is edged by a shallow waterbody.

Large louvres on the facade temper incoming daylight. They allow the space to transform subtly throughout the day. The pooja flows into the living area that further extends outward to a shaded outdoor area, configured to open up with ease for satsangs and larger gatherings.

Formal Arrival Sequence

To the left of the entrance is a drawing room, designed for semi-formal meetings. Curved wall panels featuring botanical wallpaper lend the room a soft, welcoming ambience, while setting the tone for the home’s colour palette of beiges and taupes with accents of brown.

Arrival at the Central Core

One then arrives at the heart of the home, its central bay, where a strip of hardscaping gently guides visitors into the light-filled living area while subtly demarcating it from the connected dining space. Both the living and the dining, with muted colours and contemporary furnishing, allow architecture and volume to take the primary spotlight. 

Unified Flooring Language

A simple beige tile unifies the flooring, with brown inlays and borders subtly defining the otherwise open plan of the home. A restrained palette is carried through, with detailing like smooth walls turning into fluted surfaces along the double-height, adding character.

Curves become a recurring motif, originating in the sculptural staircase and reappearing in the grooved detailing of the doors and the chamfered edges of the false ceilings, reinforcing a sense of continuity across the home.

Sculptural Vertical Connector

At the far end of the central bay, a curved staircase anchors the double-height volume, widening at its base before gliding upward in a single, fluid movement. “In a two-storeyed home, the staircase becomes critical to how the floors come together and ground the space as one,” says Subham Somani, Principal Architect at Studio Baariki.

Light and Material Expression

“We wanted it to act as a spatial anchor, allowing the house to flow as a continuous volume,” adds partner Surabhi. Rendered in white and articulated with brown tiles at the junctions of tread and riser, the staircase is animated by a clerestory window above that washes it in soft, modulated light. 

Refined Master Suite Design

The bedrooms are an exercise in carrying the design language forward while allowing for variation and personal expression. The master suite pairs a leather bed with gentle curves and vertical fluting in the wall panelling, brought into focus by sleek pendant lights that hang above.

Adaptive Design in the Parents’ Room

The parents’ room, at the farthest corner of the home, inventively turns constraints into opportunity by bringing in light through a glass-block skylight over the bed that can be drawn open and closed as needed.

A Characterful Daughter’s Room

The home’s language takes on a more playful expression in the children’s bedrooms adapting to each child’s personality. The daughter’s bedroom features a squiggled headboard and wall panelling and opens into a verdant balcony.

Tonal Contrast in the Son’s Room

In the son’s room, the home’s beige palette is complemented by blues introduced through a custom-designed bed and a playful light fixture suspended above. The bed divides the room into two quadrants, with a step up to the study area behind.

The home’s facade mirrors the sensibility within, trading ostentation for architectural clarity. The entrance and living areas, which open toward the garden, sit beneath deep overhangs that protect against heat. Glazing coupled with mild-steel louvres allows the heart of the home to receive controlled light.

The home theatre is articulated as a solid mass, with cast concrete vertical fluting adding dimension. The interplay between solids, voids, and projections results in a composed, contemporary facade.

“This house reflects who we are as designers. It’s calm, thoughtful, timeless, and full of little details that reward you the more you look. Everyone in the family got a space that feels like theirs, yet the house still feels like one unified, breathable whole,” says the young studio. 

A Quiet Design Philosophy

Setting aside loudness and indulgent finishes, Sama House by Studio Baariki responds to the needs of a multigenerational home of a close-knit family with a sense of timeless elegance achieved through a rational approach to design. Here, longevity, ease, and the ability to hold both privacy and togetherness become the truest expressions of architectural intent.

Fact File

Designed by: Studio baariki

Project Type: Residential Architecture Design

Project Name: Sama House 

Location: Raipur, Chhattisgarh

Project Size: 10000 Sq.ft

Principal Architects: Subham Somani & Surabhi Bahety Somani

Photograph Courtesy: Ekansh Goel

Stylist: Alisha M

Other Credits:  Artificial Plants by Pollination & Tiles by Rathis Build Mart

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