Project Name : House with 49 Trees
Project Location : Gurgaon, Haryana, India
Architects/Designer : Renesa Architecture Design Interiors Studio
Project Status : Built

Photographer: Niveditaa Gupta.

Text description by the architects.

The essential meaning of the project comes from a desire to empathise that there is no modernity without a good tradition. The studio’s approach was to create an imagery where architecture takes root in a site, and the site makes the architecture real. The house evolving from around the trees itself, places the built as no longer an independent object, but a medium to connect rough concrete and sandstone with soft trees, engaging a space capable of reacquainting the resident with an elusive intensity of feeling.

The House of 49 Trees appears to be carved out of the trees, openly sharing the materials of its making- raw painted concrete and a vertex of red sandstone with steel slats meticulously organised to delineate itself, as if the façade has been pushed out of its form to create an additional layer.

The unique trapezoidal shape of the land, with two street facing sides, called for a design that is at ease with seeing and being seen from all sides, as well as from the inside to the outside. Spatial design strategies envisaged around this trapezoid into large rooms with wedge shaped annexes that formed in the bathrooms adding an interesting design element to an otherwise mundane space.

The house unfolds as an anticipatory winding walk between the light walls and the monolith stone staircase that runs to the other levels of the house. A clear passage leads you to a fairly open living room, the interior of which was designed in neutral tones to create a sense of a sanctuary; one that embraces nature. All common areas spread across the three floors overlook a splash pool and Barragan inspired water spout, clad in red sandstone, through which water cascades amidst a revelatory garden set, hidden from the outside. The greenery is woven around the house, whereby plants have been given free reign to clamber between all levels, enhancing the foundational cubic forms of the house.

The House of 49 resonates with indigenous architecture; The respectful dominance of the materials, left minimally treated and finished with staggered floors that act as vantage points and break away from the straight-lined angles of a house. The balconies protrude outwards suggesting a method of addition that welcomes shade for the pool below, whilst remaining wrapped amidst the trees.

The interior of the house was done keeping in mind the innate experiences the house and its inhabitants share. Curated and Collected from various places, the design suggests a personalised touch as serene as the house itself. Like its users, the house matures over time.

Conceptualised through an outside to inside philosophy, the house of 49 trees fuses architectural form and planning to the emotive quality of curating various movements within the house.

Photographer: Niveditaa Gupta.

PROJECT CREDITS

Architecture & Interior Design: Renesa Architecture Design Interiors Studio, New Delhi.

Principal Architect: Sanjay Arora
Design Team: Sanchit Arora (Studio Head Architect), Vandana Arora, Virender Singh, Akarsh Varma, Jagdish Bangari, Aayush Misra, Tarun Tyagi, Tanushi Goyal, Janhvi Ambhudkar, Prarthna Misra, Navdisha Kukreja, Anushka Arora, Ayushi Gupta.

Contractor: Mr. Umesh Mehta , Mr. Jitender Kumar.

Lighting: White Lighting Solutions

Wardrobes/Vanities: Sezra

Check out the above full story in our DE SEP-OCT 2020 Edition – for the love of terracotta and the raw concrete charm. 

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Casa Hypotenuse is a residential dwelling in the middle of the busy Gurgaon Metropolis. Just like any other building, this 20-year-old structure initiated a design investigation and led to an intense structural stability exercise to provide an aesthetic make over. The design, most importantly accounted for the south facing façade which provided a big opportunity to play with and incorporate the harsh sun through diffused lighting in the house, throughout the day. The conceptualisation was such that it added to the different scale and angle, creating a frame that acts like an architectural spectacle on the Gurugram cityscape.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”17448″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”17449″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”17450″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The Hypotenuse is the shortest path between two faces of an entity which happen to be the two open elevations at the site. The idea of equating both the open south and east elevations results in a 1:1 elevation design sharing principle and tries to communicate a design harmony to the viewers passing through. Thus, the slanted hypotenuse forms the elongated framework around the two open faced facade story of this house made of solid concrete and steel and emphasises on the use of proper utilisation of dilapidated structural massing through the use of the new louvered facade layering hung to the old available mass.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”17454″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”17453″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”17451″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”17452″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The vertical fin louvered elements act as a solar shading device particularly with the sun angle facing the facade throughout the day and creates a striking play of light through the shadow on the walls. In addition to bringing in light, there’s also cross ventilation and a balcony to sit in and relax. The camouflage of the old and new re-creates a path of adaptive reuse, retaining the structural entities and only the architecturally strengthening parts.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”17457″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”17458″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”17455″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”17456″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The Transformation of this old house into an airy and lit habitable residential unit becomes a pedantic act of inserting technically expressive, delicate and lightweight implants of materiality in the form of steel and concrete. Consequently, maintaining the candid sense of nature of the exterior, the interior compliments those tones through beige brown shades that place the clients as the tastemakers. The layout is kept simple, but exaggerated through accessories and the accentuation in home décor products. In accordance with the hypotenuse being shadowed by the greens on the outside, the indoor environment is kept soothing and comfortable with colourful furniture to add vibrancy to the house.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”17459″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The design brings a flavor of quirkiness, but in a subtle way. The main challenge of adaptive reuse is to keep history alive while evolving into a contemporary, comfortable and poetic space. The use of colors and artwork helps the overall narrative and is further supported by the super-imposed neutral color palette. The idea is to compose both the parts- the old and new while they play their honest roles to create an architectural craft out of the mundane Delhi skyline.

A design journey of overlaying a different approach over an existing solid framework can result in some exciting design harmonies. The Journey detaches itself from its true culture and coordinates and fits into a new zone of architecture.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”17462″ img_size=”full” add_caption=”yes”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”17463″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”17461″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”17460″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Photographer: Niveditaa Gupta.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]PROJECT CREDITS

Architecture: Renesa Architecture Design Interiors, New Delhi.

Principal Architect: Sanjay Arora
Studio Head Architect: Sanchit Arora
Interior Designer/Decor Head: Vandana Arora
Studio Technical Head: Virender Singh
Design Team : Akarsh Varma, Jagdish Bangari, Aayush Misra.

Client – Mr.Romesh Pandita
Contractor – Kamal Chaddha
Lighting Consultant – White Lighting Solutions, India.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]

Project Name : Terramater
Project Location : Amristsar, Punjab, India
Project size : 1300 sq. ft.
Architects/Designer : Renesa Architecture Design Interiors Studio
Project Status : Built

Enclosed within a rustic red terracotta brick, studio Renesa’s new project is not your ordinary showroom.

Launching their first showroom in Amritsar, India, the client’s provided the Delhi based Renesa Architecture Design Interiors Studio a simple objective – to create a space that instantly felt comfortable and familiar that would draw people to the place.

Text description by the architects.

Steering away from the traditional showroom approach, we sought to contextualize the space as a gallery that provides the consumer with an experience of viewing the products by presenting them in an engaging setting.

The design is such that it allows the customers to interact with the products through the various pockets created and get a sense of their inherent quality.

Spatially, the approach involves a series of junctions; tied together by red bricks that set the tone for the brand’s identity. The plan poses a rectangular volume, with arched niches that were created to include natural light into the site. The project experiments with the very idea of space, pushing the boundary of the showroom to act as a gallery where the sculptures and the products become a part of the design.

Side-stepping the idea of a layout that conforms to its shape, the final concept removes and cuts through the entire space creating a manoeuvring pattern across the store. Simple curves and diagonals are interspersed to create receptacles of display. These different shapes forming the spatial ideology, dissect and resurrect the design forming a frame for the products. Essentially, a Home décor store, the semi enclosed volumes offer multiple access points overlapped with the monolithic structures that act as the gallery elements.

In terms of materiality, the raw concrete texture resonates with the terracotta bricks forming a transitory space that can be curated like a gallery and showroom. The natural colors and the textural variation found in the material scheme forms spaces that can be curated according to their products.

“Our main focus was to create an indigenous and deconstructed feeling which is in a state of constant change and experimentation much like a gallery would be.”

Studio Renesa infuses the visitor on to the path that forms organically but is also carefully directed by the architect itself. Celebrating the prominence of brick materiality in the Indian context, the terracotta bricks adds value to the contemporary aesthetic.

Photographer: Niveditaa Gupta.

PROJECT CREDITS

Interior Design: Renesa Architecture Design Interiors Studio, New Delhi

Clients – Mrs. Chinky Mehra, Mr. Vineet Mehra

Principal Architect: Sanjay Arora
Studio Head Architect: Sanchit Arora

Design Team: Vandana Arora – Decor Head, Virender Singh, Akarsh Varma, Jagdish Bangari, Aayush Misra, Prarthna Misra, Tanushi Goyal, Navdisha Kukreja, Ayushi Gupta, Anushka Arora.

Check out the above full story in our DE JAN -FEB 2020 Edition – interior design special.

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Welcome to the Chartreuse Vision !

text description by the architects.

The new pop-up store designed by Renesa studio offers a clear spatial interpretation of the brand’s product identity at the Mumbai airport. Opium, a well-known premium lifestyle eyewear brand houses unique spatial elements set against a grid of time and space vividly illustrating Renesa’s bold design ideology.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”16022″ img_size=”large”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]In a retail space stacking multiple products, the ‘ways of display’ determine an impression of the space to a great degree. Thus, the intervention sought to conceive a visually attractive space, articulating the functional moments.

Starting with the arched entrance, framed by a stark neon sign of the brand, customers are guided through the one-way design that animates and illuminates the pop-up store. For a person passing by, the dialogue created between the design and store is that of an interactive component that invites the customers to delve into the store.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”16026″ img_size=”large”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”16025″ img_size=”large”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The design centers around a distinct and iconographic product presentation that allows different levels of interaction based on the client’s needs. Defined by its gridded pattern, the shelving units delineate themselves through the flip-flop. Each pair of glasses sits on its own mini stage exaggerated through a neon green accent. These shelves give the monotonic space a richer way of extension, allowing the customers to speculate the space and products with interest.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”16028″ img_size=”large”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”16027″ img_size=”large”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The process followed a grid of 8×4 inch tile that extends to the walls, flooring and furniture. The idea was to create a captivating store that conceptually references what eyewear does; tint or enhance the image.To incorporate this notion, the modules were repeated arbitrarily throughout the space to create complexity.These modules while curving in to the store were broken by neon green, mirror and collapsible shelves to create the illusion of recesses or volumes looming out from the walls. Thereby, articulating the language of design not only through repetition but also through recourse to everyday store typologies.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”16029″ img_size=”large”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The curved line to which the design adapts and configures develops seamlessly continuing on to the cashier desk unit. The desk conforms to the homogeneity of the design centralizing and distributing the circulation of the store space by being located in the middle. Flanked on either sides by mirrors, a semblance of movement is created that emphasizes each display in a symmetric perspective.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The project is not merely about designing an optical store, it is to create an ambience in which public space and private space are deconstructed and placed in the same field to maintain a strong visual character. The result is an eccentric experience through a simple vision of color blocking.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”16021″ img_size=”large”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Photographer: Niveditaa Gupta.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]PROJECT CREDITS

Interior Design: Renesa Architecture Design Interiors

Client: TEAM OPIUM
Mr.Ronak Sheth, Ms. Vidhi Sheth , Mr. Mudir Shaikh

Design Team:
Sanjay Arora (Founder| Principal Architect), Sanchit Arora (Studio Head Architect| Concept Design Head), Vandana Arora (Interior Designer| Decor Head), Virender Singh, Akarsh Varma, Jagdish Bangari, Aayush Misra, Prarthna Misra, Tanushi Goyal, Navdisha Kukreja, Ayushi Gupta, Anushka Arora

Lighting Consultants: White Lighting Solutions[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]

Clients: Ms.Sanjali Nirwani , Unlocked Cafe.

Interior Design: Renesa Architecture Design Interiors
Design Team: Sanjay Arora (Principal Architect), Sanchit Arora, Vandana Arora, Virender Singh, Akarsh Varma, Jagdish Bangari, Aayush Misra, Prarthna Misra, Tanushi Goyal, Navdisha Kukreja, Ayushi Gupta, Anushka Arora
Contractor: Mr.Ajay Kumar / Design Realm Studio.
Lighting Consultants: White Lighting Solutions, IndiHaus Design Lighting – Nikita Jain[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]

In search of a meaningful integration of shape, color, texture and design, the entire space integrates the different planes and volumes of the site at the 12th floor of Le Meridien , Gurgaon .
The ideology of the space initiates itself from the amalgamation of a young talented chef (Vanshika Bhatia) with an experienced Bar mixologist (Nitin Tewari) to form three basic parts – a kitchen, a bar and a seating space.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”15386″ img_size=”large”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”15387″ img_size=”large”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”15390″ img_size=”large”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The Indigenous characterisation of using locally available Indian Materials was one of the main expressions at Together At 12th . The overlay of Indian Teak wood in contrast with the Dholpur Stone creates a juxtaposition of textures from the ceiling to the walls to the floor and visually softens the project as an understated elegant fine dine.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”15402″ img_size=”large”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”15401″ img_size=”large”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The wooden lattice creates a symphony as well as a drama in different formats of vertical and horizontal arrangements along with the minimal rose gold plated sleek lighting design, which has been conceptualised as per the branding module of the different spaces at the site.
In addition to the subtle variation of Indian materiality, the same materials act like sound absorbents for the hotel below and add to the aesthetic value of the space through its grain and organic structure.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”15403″ img_size=”large”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”15395″ img_size=”large”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”15394″ img_size=”large”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The entrance acts as a transitional space, designed as a composition to create a narrow passage from the main seating space along with the speak easy arena at the bar connecting to the Private Dining Room and lounge through an area of exposed concrete overlapped with the wooden slat development to create continuity and harmony to the spatial experience of a visitor.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”15393″ img_size=”large”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”15391″ img_size=”large”][vc_single_image image=”15392″ img_size=”large”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”15398″ img_size=”large”][vc_single_image image=”15399″ img_size=”large”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Beyond the entrance, we discover the magnitude of the room in which the restaurant expands as we move between tables up to the open terrace space, which is flooded with natural light parallel to the huge expanse of the bar. The backbone of the space, i.e. the kitchen was a huge challenge due to the importance of its strategic location and demand. To strike the right balance of aesthetics and services, the kitchen massing was moved to the end of the gallery space along with the hotel service unit area to get a huge area as well as to feed and accommodate the large volume of audience expected at the restaurant.

On the other hand the bar massing was racked up at the other end of the space to create a fine balance of energies and working to ensure that the seating space amalgamated and mixed itself into the speak easy arena and the bar seating.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”15404″ img_size=”large”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”15405″ img_size=”large”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The design of the restaurant is in equilibrium with the gastronomic and bar offerings. The kitchen comes together with the bar to form a pure space, which seems visually a bit complicated but transmits an infinite number of emotions. A space so easy to apprehend that it keeps you surprised yet together.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_gallery interval=”3″ images=”15406,15407,15408,15409,15410″ img_size=”large”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Photographer: Niveditaa Gupta[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]PROJECT CREDITS

Clients : Mr.Nitin Tewari , Ms.Vanshika Bhatia , Ms. Ridhu Bhatia , Ms. Tanisha, Mr. Shanatanu Bhatia

Architects : Renesa Architecture Design Interiors

Design Team : Sanjay Arora (Principal Architect), Sanchit Arora (Studio Head Architect), Vandana Arora (Decor Head), Virender Singh, Akarsh Varma, Jagdish Bangari, Aayush Misra, Tanushi Goyal, Navdisha Kukreja
Graphics/Illustrations : Sanchit Arora, Jagdish Bangari
Contractor : Mr.Mangat.
Lighting Consultants : Dilraj Bhatia – DBEL Studio[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]