THREE PAVILIONS
Farmhouse I New Delhi
AREA 6800 SQFT LOCATION DELHI PHOTOGRAPHY LOKESH DANG / STUDIO LOKESH DANG
Set on the fringes of Delhi, where urban sprawl meets wilderness, Three Pavilions forms a porous threshold between domesticity and the forest. Flanked by dense vegetation on three sides, the site offers the rare luxury of isolation near the city. The client brief called for a small, functional weekend house balancing togetherness, privacy, and leisure. The design responds as a dispersed field of experiences, fragmenting the program into three blocks – a Commons Pavilion, a Family Pavilion, and a Guest Pavilion – each opening inward to the courtyard for communal gatherings and outward to the forest for private contemplation.
A colonnaded path frames the central courtyard, acting as a spine that connects the pavilions while providing shade, a promenade, and spatial rhythm. Anchored to the Family Pavilion, a lap pool and a thatched poolside bar enhance the resort-like atmosphere.
All pavilions are angular A-frame steel structures, with interiors expressed in a restrained palette of wood, stone, and exposed steel. Large roof overhangs, shaded sit-outs, and carefully aligned openings ensure passive thermal comfort and cross-ventilation. The central lawn acts as a thermal basin, while peripheral planting buffers views, regulates microclimate, and defines the site’s enclosure. Three Pavilions is less a house and more a site of conversations between volumes and voids, light and shadow, community and solitude, offering a recalibrated notion of domesticity where luxury lies not in excess, but in the elemental: air, shade, sky, and silence.
