In a quaint residential neighborhood in Noida, the project is a single-family home on a convenient 300 sq.m. plot. With a south-west-facing orientation, the house enjoys direct views of the small park in front, framing the surrounding greenery. The residence was designed for a family of four, comprising the parents and their two children. The brief called for a five-bedroom layout. Two of these bedrooms were planned as guest rooms to comfortably accommodate frequent visits from both sides of the family.
A Family of 4 Finds Its Forever Home in Noida | Architects Collaborative
A post-COVID brief also entailed requirements for decent-sized study/work spaces as well; and a basement primarily for storage and lounging.
With the clients shifting in from a previous, high-rise apartment lifestyle, the design leans towards a spatial intent that acknowledges the duality of interactions and isolations, and therefore offers ‘glimpses’, or interstitial interactions, between spaces.
The layout unfolds in layers, with courtyards acting as the connecting elements between spaces. They offer glimpses from one room to another while creating natural pauses along the journey through the home. The courtyards also serve as transitional buffers, softening the boundaries between different areas. Their spill-out spaces strengthen the relationship between the open and enclosed environments, creating a seamless spatial experience.
These courts thus become anchors for light and weather into their adjacent, islanded spaces, as well as the mediators for any and all dialogue between them. Washed in shades and tints of the underlying hue overlaying the spaces, these courts, both water and verdant, meander through the three stories of the house, directing the recital of its layers and spaces.
Much akin to the ‘Kavad’, a traditional Rajasthani wooden story box, where the project derives its conceptual abstraction; the material selection, in parts, is also based on similar roots. Limestone, sandstone, and lime plaster become the primary recurrence, to wash the spaces into a cohesive hue. At the transitional spaces, the stonework helps add intricacy to the pauses through synonymous patterns and inlays.
The supplemental material recurrence is wood. With the built mass as 3 varying blocks of lime plaster, courts and punctures defining their individual silhouettes; wood envelopes these monoliths as a second skin, a porous cushion of privacy between the context and the built-form. The operable wood skin wraps the lime-dyed volumes at their unfolding, deterring the south sun with a subsequent drama of light and shade on its inside.
Fact File
Designed by: Architects Collaborative
Project Type: Residential Architecture Design
Project Name: A Tale of Tinted Courts Residence
Location: Noida, Uttar Pradesh
Year Built: 2025
Project Size: 2460.63 Sq.ft
Principal Architects: Abhishek Saxena & Madhav Maini
Photograph Courtesy: Lokesh Dang
Source: Archdaily
Firm’s Instagram Link: Architects Collaborative
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