Misty view from high level showing compound entrance in foreground. The Lattice house, Jammu Khashmir, India. Architect: SP+A, 2
The Lattice house is located in a new suburb on the outskirts of Jammu city in north-western India. Its context is symptomatic of the nature of urbanization in many small cities, like Jammu scatterecd throughout the fast urbanizing Indian landscape, where formal planning mechanisms are reactive to new and informal settlements. With the immediate landscape compromised by the lack of government/ municipal intervention the house becomes a function of a need for structured form. The lack of a distinct contextual urban fabric (besides the infrastructure pylons) also projects its role as a distinct urban marker visible from a distance, its material singularity in sharp contrast. Horizontal bands of vertical wood lattice screens encompass balconies, sun-breakers, storage etc. in an attempt to scale the mass of the house as a series of sectional
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