Sarovar House

The clients came to us with a plot hemmed in on three sides and a brief that amounted to a contradiction: they wanted to feel unobserved, and they wanted the house to be full of light. Every scheme that put windows on the boundary walls solved one and defeated the other.

So the house turns its back on the street entirely. A single water courtyard sits at the centre, and every room borrows daylight from it rather than from outside. The plan is arranged so that no room is more than one wall away from that court — the kitchen reads it in the morning, the sitting room across the afternoon, the bedrooms at dusk.

The palette is deliberately short: lime plaster, Dholpur sandstone, raw linen, unlacquered brass. Four materials, repeated at every scale from the entrance threshold to the drawer pulls, so the house reads as one sustained thought rather than eight decorated rooms.