Zanav Home

Project Name: Zanav Home
Project Location: Bommanahalli, Bangalore
Project Period: 2010 - 2012
Built Area: approx 2000 sq m
Project Client: Ravi Khemka - Zanav Home

Due to the diminishing boundaries of worldwide business there has been movement of money, expansion of aspirations and mobility of labour across borders that are increasing every day. The change in aesthetic has become considerably international and the new - found economic momentum within the country has made this as an affordable possibility and choice. Moreover changes in work style – among others, its work friendliness for greater efficiency and humaneness etc have brought new thinking and direction into Indian interior spatial experience and design.

The Indian identity is threatened by the all - pervading global aesthetic. It marks alienation, while it shifts the entire mode of production away from the craftsmen to mechanized industrial methods of production that are precise, uniform and able to meet the paucity of time which is an inherent characteristic of the impatient capital . But this negotiation is inevitable in a time that marks a change in the mode of production, the pace & logistic of growing metropolises. So the role of the hand craft in new forms and new experimental derivatives begins to appear in more upscale one off ventures - that can afford this luxury of being creative in their imagination, production and the resultant spatial and visual uniqueness.

The strategy was to programmatically isolate the administrative functions, the circulation / linkage and the studio spaces, thereby segregating the 3 distinct functions that link up through a central atrium like space with the lobby staircase.

The skin of the space is extended and formed by neutral concrete colour (insulated within) cement board panels which begins to bring light into the periphery of the design studio and is ventilated from the top as well as the bottom. Cutting down sound and dust and making the space into an internal world was the intention. All the glass is extra clear to restrict the distortion of natural light for the perception of actual colours that is necessary.

The naturalness / authenticity of material in its tactility - to the touch and the visual holds the key to the experience created. In the perception of such places these take precedence as gateway to the deeper embedded strategies.