The Courtyard House manages to capture tranquility and solace, despite being situated in a busy downtown frame. The Courtyard house is designed on a plot measuring 60’x 96’ with a dense residential fabric that is hardly immune to the urban vagaries of Bangalore.

Designed by Aurae Architects, the multi-level home seamlessly blends the inside with the outside. Laid out in a ‘C-Shaped plan’, each corner of the house heaps a courtyard. A highly sustainable element, the courtyards, in the generous landscape, are like the breath marks in a musical score that give shape to the experience of moving through space. The interiority of the house is designed to revolve around the experience of the courtyard.

Public spaces of the house such as the family, living and the kitchen loin the courtyard. While the kitchen is visually connected the family space physically spills into the courtyard across the sliding folding fenestration. The courtyard is detailed with vertical retractable roof in a way to enable ventilation into it without compromising on privacy from the neighbors. With the courtyard being the protagonist of the house, the rest of the house is rendered with a mute palette comprising of stucco finishes, wood and Italian marble.

The exterior of the house has a strong identity enabled by the sensuous marble cladding that is punctured by a large window. This forms a strong co-relation between the experience of the outside and the inside of the residence.