Inside Gujarat Luxury House- Three Courtyards And Four Gardens (House Tour).

The house is completely modern. All the amenities, all the facilities. But beyond that, connecting you to the nature. You heard the parrots coming. Number of people has increased. Because they found cozy homes for them as well. And that's the beauty. I'm architect Hiren Patel from Ahmedabad. And we are in the city of Anand. We call this the house of three courtyards. This is a house for the joint family. Grandfather would require different kind of privacy. Two brothers would require another kind of thing. Their children getting married and family married life would require next level of privacy. But they are all together. So we thought creating the courtyards and segregating them. House will form very good. Now as I said we have lovely lily pond. And if we create a building over here. So you have the connection to the pool, guest house, lily pond. We got four sided different gardens. South side garden. There is a koi fish pond over here. You can listen the chirping of the birds. And then you have a garden to choose. So let's say in winter you will love going on the southern side. Here it's like we have a large verandah, huge height. We thought it would be good to create the little steps of a lawn. And plant a lovely dead palms. And I am so happy to see that now deads started coming. These deads are not for us. These are the deads for the birds. So house of the courtyard actually has existing big distal and coconut palm varieties. So we choose path to walk between them. And then you enter to the main verandah of the house. We have the Ganesha. So after you open the door, what you focus is a puja room. This is a respect to whatever the belief family has it. You have the backdrop with the thikdi work which is very special of Udaipur. When you look at the candles, you will see the multiple figures in that. It looks very very mystical. We have a central courtyard. So we create the open seating with the water bodies surrounding with the fountains. We planted a huge ficus tree actually. Ficus tree here, we have a huge ficus tree here and the rest of the place. So house form like one L will become the public, another L will become the sitting zone. And the central will become courtyard. And there everybody will come and enjoy. And it's a courtyard, it's a Brahmsthan, wisdom of our own heritage. So this is a modern version of chowk. In traditional houses of courtyard, you have the walkways, we have the same thing. But this walkway has been covered with a glass fenestration. Which controls from the sound, to the dust, to the heat, to everything inside the house. Aluminium window makes the life easy because it is very sturdy, easy to maintain, termite free. So these are the like large passages. So we have sit-downs, like I would say it's a gallery to showcase art and everything for this entire house. But this kind of house requires further styling of the house. The southern part, which is more public space. So the kitchen came on with a supporting kitchen over there. Bedouin dining, powder toilet and large family space. So it's very neat with the grandfather, so he can come and watch the TV. And it's an extension of his own bedroom. We made this big outdoor veranda. It's huge, you can see that it's so convenient because again it's a joint family, so we wanted that big space for them. Prime area was given for formal dining room, where the guests will come, see the puja room and enter in. When you are on design board, you create the bigger space. And then when you realize that you have big space, how you make it compact and cozier. This is home, not the hotel. Most of the guests will come till this room and go back. So this became very important. So private wing just goes like this. Consisting four bedrooms for young people. Senior people, we are making two bedrooms next to each other. The grandfather's prime location where it's very convenient for him to walk to the dining room, TV room and everything. All seven bedrooms are completely identical. We have seven different rooms with seven different personalities. Each bedroom has their own private personality. From kids' room to grandfather's requirement, to the young couple's requirement, to the mid-aged family's requirement. Because we believe the equality in the joint family. We don't want to make anything big. We want to create a lovely outdoor space. Between the living room and the pool, we will create a gazebo. And when you create a gazebo, you are connected to the water side. And I was talking today with the grandfather in his bedroom, sitting on his table, looking to the beautiful therapy garden on the east side. A 96-year-old grandfather is telling that, Mr. Patel, you have done such a wonderful job for me and my family. And I am thankful for that. Biggest blessings, I would say, we have at HPA team.