House in Bhaisepati

Bhaisepati is one of the few parts of the valley where a house can still have ground on all four sides, so the design is about the gap as much as the building.

The house is broken into two rendered volumes set slightly apart and at different heights, which keeps the mass down at the street and lets a stair and a double-height slot sit in the join. Balconies are cut back into the form rather than hung off it, and a planted wall carries along the boundary so the car court reads as garden rather than forecourt.