The scale of this project may be small, but it efficiently highlights CollectiveProject’s talent for detailing and conjuring up beauty in even the most limited spaces. The team led by Cyrus Patell and Eliza Higgins built a pergola-like structure to occupy a single family residential unit’s unused extension in Bengaluru. The structure covers 750 sq. feet of area to create a deeply mindful reading nook/library space that looks out to a lush little disciplined garden.
This elegant ‘inhabitable piece of furniture’, created out of polished strips of reclaimed wood, stands at the center, flanked by a small grass-clad amphitheater-like segment on one side and by a sunken polished path that was dug-up and dressed in locally sourced black granite on the other side. The walkway comes alive in the evenings with the help of diyas that nestle in the niches that line the stretch. A masonry wall separates this quiet island from the main residence, and stands as an immersive escape from all rigours of the house and the bustling city beyond.
