Indigo Architects Uday & Mausami Andhare rediscover ‘lime’ as a material for constructing a personal space that grants compositional direction and ornamental value while connecting one with one’s roots in this grand house called Lime House in Ahmedabad. The Lime House reverberates with the essence of a rich ethos and ‘respect for water’. Boundaries between the inside and outside get blurred with the architects’ quest for creating buildings that are pure compositions of spatial elements. This helps external elements and internal beautifiers speak a common language. Here, the idea behind their exploration for an attractive, modest and earth-friendly home gains clarity. Indigo Architects understood all too well the need for manipulating the experiential qualities of materials, light, air and nature. So, while these were inherently addressed by the lead designers, the potential for using ‘lime’ in contemporary construction, zestfully coupled with a genuine desire to be sustainable at all levels, compelled the designers to keep it simple.
