Brick and Wood in Modern Houses, Brick Kiln House Design from Indian Architects

Brick and wood combination that feels warm and familiar is one of modern  exterior and interior design trends. Brick and wood create a stylish blend of traditional natural materials for building a house, adding unique character, warmth and charm to house exterior and interior design.

Brick Kiln house design from SPASM Design Architects, www.spasmindia.com/ is located in Alibaug, Maharashtra. Its spacious architecture, backyard and interior design ideas, natural stone, brick and wood combination, bright decorative fabrics with traditional Indian patterns can become your inspiration for creating beautiful home interiors or summer cottage and add an exotic flavor to modern interior design.

Large windows, dark earthy room colors, neutral and reddish brown color palette, shady backyard design and stone patio, sliding doors that allow to bring nature inside, outdoor shower design, comfortable furniture in spacious living room, unique lighting and bright decorative fabrics with ethnic patterns are just a few takeaways from this house design project.

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Brick Kiln House is located in a small village Munavali, proximal to Alibaug, a favorite getaway for affluent Bombay citizens as a place to build their dream country home. The allotment (3 acres) was partly a grove of Tamarind and Mango trees , with the odd , Champa, Vad tree. Part of the plot was four feet lower and was, an unkempt paddy field . The front of the property is a not so busy asphalt road.

When driving around the Raigad district, one often chances to see local brick stacks being baked on the green lots that surround them – some remain and are also abandoned. These form a peculiar feature of the landscape in Maharashtra. The architects, wondered what it would be like to hollow out and inhabit these almost primitive mastaba like forms. Their interest lay in using this image as a genesis of the house.

Further conception, was informed by site features like prominent Tamarind trees and orientation, aspect, wind and rain direction. Long stretches of the two main wings of the house, sit at right-angles to each other and about a curious tree which has grown at a leaning angle.

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Every room is cut on two sides with openings, supporting easy cross ventilation and ingress of just the right about of light…..DESI (country) houses have peculiarly dark interiors offering respite from the sun – scorched outdoors.

Attached facilities, allow for an intimate interface with the outdoors, in marked opposition to urban life, here you wouldn’t need a book when you sit on the pot. The sequencing of the rooms, is frugal, and in series as a farm building, you must walk outdoors to change rooms. The living space has a curious shed-like volume, where the materials of the house come together rather loosely. Insinuating incompleteness and creating a sense of being immersed in the vegetation around.

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The body of the house hides under tree canopies like a gator , at the edge of a river bank. The choice of BRICK was based on color, strength, finish— –blemishes of a hand-made unit were key to the overall expression.

The red earth brick does not attempt to be precise, neither does it try to create patterns or jaalis as commonly seen in Indian architecture, the brick is what it is, at rest — a STACK, its mass concealing and revealing life within it. The sheer thickness –mass of the brick, keeps the interior spaces comfortably cool.

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Experience of occupation takes precedence over formal gestures. Sun, rain and wind freely enter the house and will mark it over the years. The stacks will gradually get covered with luminescent moss, nature will fight its way back. Living in a country home is about witnessing this war.

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The pool, takes form from the shadow of the trees on the earth below, a pattern we noticed on an especially hot afternoon. In such regions water automatically becomes a source of life. Getting engulfed by foliage.

Photography by Sebastian Zachariah

  by Ena Russ   
   02.09.2021