Modern Vernacular Architecture – A New Twist on Old Favourites!

In the lush green mango sanctuary at Halol, near Vadodara, a cottage-style yet contemporary holiday home emerges in perfect response to its context. Nestled in the midst of fully grown mango trees, the site affords verdant vistas, pushing the form to evolve with respect to its landscape. Spread across two storeys and 2,612 square feet, the volumetrically unique home unfurls with an intriguing butterfly roof - a bold choice that infuses character in the otherwise straightlaced linearity of the structure. Manoj Patel’s signature attention to materiality percolates into the front facade, where instead of spotlighting brick as usual, a vocabulary […]