vaulted and domed roofs
This 3200 sq. ft house was designed for a former Vice Chancellor of Mysore University on a site of 50’ x 80’. Small patches of three green courtyards were carved out of the site to be accessed from living and dining rooms. The roof is made of hollow clay block vaulting and brick doming with out centering. A wood bridge over the living connects the front and rear rooms in the first floor. Sky lighting is used with advantage. The house incorporates rain water harvesting and solar water heating.
Client: Prof. SN. Hegde
Design team: BS Bhooshan, Sunil Nayak
Structural Design: C.N Yadunandan
Completed: 2004
“Hegde Residence at Mysore is a departure from the archetypal visual and spatial idiom of local architectural expression. Curvilinear forms are used… to form a cascading composition of roofs.
The brick-masonry dome and the sweeping form of the roof constructed with hollow clay panels covered with china-mosaic, compose the crest of the compilation. Stone and brick walls form the static base of the dynamic forms above….Indeed architecture is craftsmanship of space. He enjoys using exposed materials in various elements of the building to explore the influence of their visual and textural aesthetics, on the space, environment and the user. The use of brick in his works is motivated by the experience of warmth it imparts to the space.” from Brick 2008, a book by Weinerberger, Austria ( link below page)
Awarded IIA 2009 Award for Excellence in Architecture by Indian Institute of Architects.
bhooshan’s own house, mysore
This modest dwelling for the architect and his family, built in 1989, offered an opportunity to protest against prevailing regional tastes. The plastered concrete frame which raise the house off the ground, stabilized mud block maasonry and an open interior plan that is conducive to natural ventilation struck onlookers as unconventional, while the double-pitched roof did not.
” On an aesthetic level,…the intention is to sensitze the public, and even provoke their reaction, to the use of traditional forms and ordinary materials in thoughtful, yet unconventional ways” (comtemporary architecture of asia)
Completed 1989 one of the first works of BSB