Ananta Residence

Ananta Residence is set within a densely wooded site in Chattarpur, where a landscape of mature trees, including three significant champa trees, informed the spatial organisation from the outset. Conceived as a residence with a distinct architectural identity yet deeply connected to its setting, the project engages the surrounding landscape designed by Jencks Squared as an active participant in the design process. The landform itself becomes a generative device, with curving surfaces lifting and folding into sweeping rooflines that blur the boundary between building and terrain. Water, introduced through ponds and swimming pools, further strengthens this continuity, creating a seamless dialogue between earth, architecture, and sky.

Emerging from this relationship between landscape and form, the house combines the geometry of the infinity symbol with the spatial logic of a courtyard dwelling to create a sculpted, three-dimensional expression. Traditional brick masonry was reimagined as both structure and craft, enabling the fluidity and complexity of the form while celebrating a construction tradition that is increasingly rare. Through extensive experimentation, brick bonds, relief patterns, and three-dimensional assemblies were developed for façades and openings, their placement refined through on-site testing and multiple full-scale mock-ups. The result is a cohesive architectural language defined by brick bands, corbelled edges, and patterned infills that lend texture, depth, and character to the building.

This craft-led approach extends into the interiors, where twelve flooring patterns inspired by Indian craft traditions create a layered yet unified spatial experience. Fenestrations, corbelled surrounds, and bespoke door assemblies were developed in tandem with the masonry to ensure continuity between inside and out. Driven through a close collaboration with the client, who is also an architect and interior designer, the residence brings together craft, climate, structure, and landscape in a single architectural expression, where the experience of inhabitation remains inseparable from the site that shaped it.