‘Udaan’ is a dream realised by the collective efforts of its owner and the vision and skill of architect Aniket Bhagwat and interior designer Samira Rathod. The Vadodara farm house sits at the base of a hill overlooking a river and consists of two parts, each on a small hillock with a seasonal stream in between. This valley of sorts is turned into one of the primary organising features splitting the building into one public half and the other with the more private spaces. The connecting element is a bridge that hangs over the valley between the two halves of the house. M/s. Prabhakar B. Bhagwat and Samira Rathod Design Associates break the conventional order within the home with this bridge.
In the public half of the building the darkened grotto like interiors of the living space and library at the lower level are contrasted by the glazed pavilion of the guest room hanging over the land. In the private half, at the upper level you enter the home through a bright red box which forms the lobby. The movement here is decidedly towards whimsy as strange new forms dominate the space. Furniture and details mimic strange anthropometric and animal like forms. Textures collide in free abandon.
