CASE STUDY

We laid out a simple brief: no material other

RESIDENTIAL – HOME IN JAIPUR than stone should be used for construction.

•Architects: Malik Architecture

•Area: 8000 ft²
•Year: 2019
•City: Jaipur
•Climate : Extreme
•Country: India
What style it is? - Contemporary

Contemporary style interiors are often minimalist, with

clean lines, graphic prints, and high-shine
materials. They are often described as dynamic and
daring, and are praised for their mastery of light and
reflection. Contemporary interiors date back to the Sand stone is native of
1970s. They borrow elements from other design styles, Rajasthan, but over last few
such as: Modernism, Postmodernism, De- decades this material has
constructivism, Art Deco, Futurism. been reduced to cladding
medium.
It is a sustainable structural
element.
DESIGN
The house is arranged around a narrow
courtyard that extends into even
narrower slits and fissures as it weaves
its way through the house, essentially
drawing on the proportions of voids and
interstitial spaces of traditional dwellings
as a method to counter the effect of the
harsh summer sun. Large front and rear-
facing glazing are shaded by deep
overhangs and operable, hand-cut stone
screens to modulate light, privacy, and
views.
The house is arranged around a narrow courtyard that extends into
even narrower slits and fissures as it weaves its way through the
house, essentially drawing on the proportions of voids and interstitial
spaces of traditional dwellings as a method to counter the effect of
the harsh summer sun.
Large front and rear-facing glazing are shaded by deep overhangs and
operable, hand-cut stone screens to modulate light, privacy, and views.
MATERIALS
Floor systems alternate between vaults and large single-span
stone pieces. Every building element from the basement
raft/retaining walls/lintels/door and window
jambs/reveals/stairs/screens etc. has been made from stone
blocks, either from the quarry ( superstructure elements) or
excavated from the site ( substructure elements).
The traditional method of load-bearing construction relied
on the impermeable thickness of walls.

This was reengineered to develop a hollow interlocking structural

wall system that creates a more effective thermal break, provides
space to integrate services within the wall cavity, and effectively
reduces the material consumption by 30%.
Dry Stone Construction: A minimal amount of steel such as tie-rods and shear pins reinforce the
stone for seismic performance. Lime mortar is used only to seal the exterior joints.
DETAILS
CRAFT + ENGINEERING: Stonemasons
from the surrounding villages have
worked stone with their hands for
generations. The accumulated
knowledge of the past along with the
theory of Engineering created an
interesting and often contradictory
overlap of intelligence that was most
often resolved by the Head Stonemason,
including identifying the optimal size of
stone that could be carried and laid by 2
masons with minimal mechanical
assistance ( unlike brick, there is no
Standard stone size).

QUARRY: Hard sandstone ( Jodhpur

stone) is quarried 45mins away from the
site. At our request, the quarry foreman
reverted to the “ splitting” stone
technique using traditional stonemasonry
tools instead of the high-yield gangsaw
extraction that is machine intensive and
eliminates the natural stone grain.
Splitting the stone mobilizes the human
touch, limits the processing, and retains
the natural Earth imprint of the stone.
 The purview of Craft, often limited to embellishment, artifice, and
object, was expanded to the building scale. Easily consumable
symbology is supplanted by the primal and essential deployment of
material resources and craft in a space that is both Ancient and
purview : range of experience or thought. Contemporary.
Thermal Performance: Approximately 5-7*C variation can be observed between the exterior and interior. This
is due to the thermal mass of the material and the “cavity” construction.
Personal Observations
Sustainable, Cost effective, harmony with the surroundings,
Modern + Classic touch, Low maintainance.
Not very claustrophobic
One concern – Sandstorm ? Because it has too many punchers in
the wall

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