The project establishes The Dip Pavilion as an elemental architectural intervention within an existing residential landscape. Designed primarily for evening use alongside a swimming pool, the pavilion negotiates openness and enclosure while maintaining a calibrated relationship between architecture and landscape.
Reimagining Pavilion Architecture Within an Ahmedabad Residential Landscape | andblack design studio
The design organizes the pavilion as a linear, transparent volume beneath a singular roof plane. An independent structural system supports the volume while preserving its light and minimal expression. Full-height glazing allows uninterrupted visual continuity across the garden, while slender columns placed beyond the glass frame the space. This separation preserves the lightness and fluidity of the interior volume while establishing a clear architectural rhythm and scale.
A sculptural roof defines the project’s architectural identity, connecting garden, pool, and built form. A thin horizontal plane extends across the site and descends to ground level to form a sheltered entrance. This movement establishes a controlled connection between ground and sky without fragmenting the clarity of the glass volume. Visible from key vantage points within the main residence, the roof becomes the primary architectural marker that anchors the pavilion within the larger site.
Internally, the pavilion accommodates a lounge and gym within a single sixteen-foot-high expansive volume. Oriented away from the main house, the gym opens to the rear garden, ensuring privacy while maintaining an uninterrupted connection to greenery. The lounge is calibrated to adapt across varying scales of occupation. Achieved through proportion, transparency, and layered connections to the outdoors, the space feels intimate when sparsely occupied yet accommodates larger gatherings with equal ease.
The lounging experience extends outward to an open-air seating area on a floating deck, positioned alongside a curtain waterfall and surrounded by water. This water body continues seamlessly to form the swimming pool, conceived as both a spatial and visual extension of the pavilion. The alignment reinforces the project’s linear logic and sharpens the relationship between architecture, water, and landscape.
A consistent material palette is carried across interior and exterior, eliminating visual breaks and reinforcing continuity. Uninterrupted by glazed partitions, stone flooring extends seamlessly between inside and outside. Exterior grade steel defines the central utility volume and key interior elements, while the concrete roof, lined with wood on its underside, forms a continuous ceiling plane. The garden flows from the main residence to the pavilion, while the architectural expression remains deliberately restrained, ensuring the pavilion complements rather than competes with the existing house.
The Dip Pavilion reads as a cohesive whole, where form, structure, and material operate together to shape a space that feels grounded yet fluid. It is an architecture that enhances its landscape, respects its context, and achieves a distinct character through clarity.
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Designed by: andblack design studio
Project Type: Residential Architecture Design
Project Name: The Dip Pavilion
Location: Ahmedabad
Manufacturers: Roche Bobois
Year: 2025
Principal Architects: Jwalant Mahadevwala & Kanika Agarwal
Photograph Courtesy: Ishita Sitwala
Source: Archdaily
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