Exterior view from garden. Marbled House, Ahmedabad, India. Architect: Matharoo Associates, 2015.
A private residence for one of the city’s largest suppliers of construction-grade stone, the client’s background in high end materials and craftsmanship makes him deal with a whole host of city’s architects everyday. Despite the obvious temptation for a tectonically driven project that draws on the elite exclusivity of such a material, his concern for a new interpretation of the material and the spaces that it could generate brought him and the architects together. The building’s form becomes reminiscent of the stones that stack up inside the client’s store yard. Stone blocks cleanly sheared into slabs by an industrial gangsaw, lean sawtooth against each other. Like bookends, they are propped up by a steel frame held in place under their own weight. The structure of the building draws upon the mutual reciprocity of such a system, as concrete frames are pinned down by slanted exterior stone walls of varying heights that they in turn support.
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