OUTRE’ HOUSE

Residential Interiors | New Delhi

AREA 14500 SQFT LOCATION  NEW DELHI PHOTOGRAPHY ANDRE J FANTHOME

Outré House rekindles the relationship between the crafted and the natural. The weave between the handmade and the natural further positions this design away from the industrial. The curvilinearity of Outré House creates more fluid spatial formations and helps create smoothly transitioning spaces.

From bespoke concrete formwork and poured flooring to curved joinery and rhythmically notched masonry, the design releases its handmade construction from the constraints of the straight line. It, thus, allows crafted details to overlay each other rather than be restricted, merely, to points and lines where materials meet.

Outré House attempts a rediscovery of the singular and distinctive, specifically, in the working of humble materials; on site and by hand. It attempts to do so by recentring the bond between making and material.

This boxform resolution of the program unavoidably results in spatial compartmentalisation, on top of which real estate imperatives encourage apartment stacks of cookiecutter floor plates. The curvilinearity of Outré House creates more fluid spatial formations and helps create smoothly transitioning spaces.