Residential · Ahmedabad · 2026 · 2400 sq ft
Courtyard House
A family of five on a plot with one good aspect and three difficult ones. Rotating the plan one degree off the plot line opens a court that lights the deep side of the house in the morning and the shallow side in the afternoon.
Site
A plot with one good aspect.
Eighteen by thirteen metres, one long side facing the street, the other three closed by neighbouring construction. Daylight arrives from two directions on a good day, one on most.
The move
Turn the plan one degree.
The plot line is not the argument. Rotating the plan one degree opens a courtyard in the centre that lights the deep side of the house in the morning and the shallow side in the afternoon. Nothing was added.
Material
Brick where it is doing work.
Load-bearing brick is left exposed inside the courtyard, plastered where it is not, so the structure stays legible from inside the room that borrowed the light.