#site-sensitive-design

#site-sensitive-design

Loaded with history and on a fragile but dramatic site, the owner's dream of being stewards of the property while extending and renovating the home quickly became challenging.

Set on the outskirts of Bharuch, this weekend retreat grows out of the land as much as it rests upon it. The plot came with mature fruit-bearing trees like mango (Mangifera indica), chickoo (Manilkara zapota), and jamun (Syzygium cumini), whose presence defined the layout from the very beginning. Rather than clearing the site, the house was conceived as a curving form that gently weaves around the existing canopy, allowing architecture and landscape to remain in dialogue.

"The house conveys a sense of calm and simplicity, while also providing shelter and warmth," the team at OAM says to describe Ca'n Gallineta, a Mallorca house that, despite being a new build, blends in completely with its Mediterranean surroundings. It appears as if it had always been there, set amid the reddish earth and the yellow grass. It was important to the studio to reduce its visual impact on a "delicate natural environment."

The architecture of Centara Grand Lagoon Maldives is conceived not as a statement of form, but as a stage for nature.