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Surfaces Reporter | Spaces & Material Poetries Kshama Parmar
PrinciPal Designer, MarigolD interiors
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Marigold Interiors is leading the Interior Designing and Architecture Industry since 2008 under the leadership of Founder and Principal, Kshama Parmar. With more than 200+ clients spread across Gujarat, Maharashtra and Rajasthan to vouch for our work and commitment, Marigold Interior has managed to stay ahead of the competitive curve because of its perfect balance between the client expectations and the unique design concepts. Whether you need to redefine your residential, commercial or public space/building with a quick furniture refresh or you need to adapt to the modern-day architectural amenities by undergoing a complete renovation of your owned property, their team of experienced and disciplined Interior Designers can deliver inspiring designs that can turn any location into a beautiful landmark.
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Project details Project Type: Veneer and Laminate | Showroom Location: Ahmedabad architecture Firm: Marigold Interiors | area: 2486 sq.ft
Kshama Parmar of Marigold Interiors, an interior designing and architecture practice, has designed this unusual and eye-catching veneer and laminate showroom in Ahmedabad. The architect says, “Showroom is a book of ideas, it should serve as a window for the people who explore them.” Hence, the entire design process revolved around creating a space that allow the people to submerge in the beauty of the showroom. Along with this, it should offer the people to select an idea within to implement or to amalgamate them according to their requirements.
exotic Veneers
This showroom was predominantly designed for the display of veneer. The veneer samples are displayed in the gallery, along with a few space making elements to compliment the display, which will help visitors to understand the material in and out.
The Grace of Natural Wood Finish
We wanted our visitors to experience the elegance of wood finish around their journey for which we utilised their manufactured teak wood finish veneer in maximum ways possible. From reception to the ceiling, wood is amalgamated really well, such that it provides variation in the spaces.
Showroom is a book of ideas, it should serve as a window for the people who explore them. Along with this, it should offer the people to select an idea within to implement or to amalgamate them according to their requirements.
Focal Point
One of the main highlights of the showroom was the pyramid ceiling. Strips of Burma teak were used to design the structure very carefully calculating the load of the pyramids on the ceiling. Instead of making them at an acute angle, the degree was kept off, hence multiple types of pyramids were made with different angles so that when looked from below, the pyramids altogether create a wave. each pyramid weighed
50kgs but the heaviness of it wasn’t reflected on its look.
Surfaces Reporter | Spaces & Material Poetries ar surbhi SiNGhaL & ar Deepanshu arNeja
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SIAN ARCHITECTS is an architecture practice based in New Delhi and Meerut, India. Established in the year 2017, SIAN is a collaboration between Surbhi Singhal and Deepanshu Arneja, working in the fields of architecture, interior design, and material innovation. With their practice they aim to produce a clear architecture that differentiates evident spaces with attention to detail and materiality, invariably relating to the capacity of architecture to contain the activities of daily life often achieved in stringent budget and site constraints.
Weaving Nostalgia and Aspiration Through Natural Stone Facade
Nested on a narrow, quiet, old cul-de-sac street of Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, the Stone-Print Villa is reincarnated to match the old charm of the neighborhood. What was once a large living quarter occupied by related members of a mercantile community now stands as a segregated smaller residential place. Holding strong onto their ancestral land, the occupants of Stone-Print Villa wanted to emancipate their reverential association with the property in an extremely bold and visible manner through the facade. Known for crafting immersive and functional authentic spaces, New Delhi-based SIAN Architects encapsulated the dynamism of the bygone stone-print oomph into the Stone-Print Villa. Architects surbhi singhal and Deepanshu Arneja created the structure by unfolding its aesthetic appeal into the occupant’s unyielding connection with their home. Intermingle of two Indian natural stones have been weaved in together to bring out a similar yellow tone through the house.
Use of bold materials
polished, rough, mango and pale-yellow samples were sourced out of the same base materials to explore cladding possibilities. to achieve textural rough surfaces, the stones were processed with varying degrees of sand blasting techniques. When mixed with resin, the chips from the base stone led to a flexible stone-resin prototype.
The helped for micro-detailing and ornamentations such as a heavily embellished plinth composed of stone-resin panels cut in stepped patterns, continuously wrapped around the masonry. It was cladded with a comparatively pale sand-blasted
At StonePrint villa, a residential facade is unexpectedly pushed to a monumental status.
Project details
Project Name: Stone-Print Villa architecture Firm: Sian Architects Location: Meerut, Uttar Pradesh area: 3,600 sqft Year of Completion: 2020/2021 Lead architects: Ar Surbhi Singhal and Ar Deepanshu Arneja of SIAN Architects design Team: Sian Architects; Contractors: V. L. And Sons And Design Excelsior Photography: Niveditaa Gupta
The occupants of the Stone-Print Villa asked for an aesthetic that doesn’t shy away, has a powerful presence and unfolds as an artefact representing their unyielding connection with home.
Apart from the bold material choice, the facade is designed as an art piece to achieve the envisioned imageability and presence.
version to distinguish the upper story, which fashioned an overarching and powerful presence on the street. Complementing the scale of the house, the terrace was exaggerated to an almost unacceptable boundary with stone cladding with a warm-toned elevation.
hand-Crafted and 3d-Printed motifs on the Façade
To set up the facade, the architects decided to retain the existing structure and approach it as a canvas that could be cladded. The facade is designed as an art piece to pull off the envisioned idea effortlessly. The facade is artistically beautified with numerous handcrafted and 3D-printed motifs inspired by the heritage of the residence, such as floral plates on the parapet and the boundary wall, peacock motifs, terrace corbels, and columns. The architects have marvelously balanced the structure by ornamenting it in a way that would only appear from specific vantage points on the street and within the building, thereby not overwhelming viewers. The Stone-Print Villa is a structure of fine balance between varied concepts and materials, which is seamlessly patterned in art and architecture, thereby echoing the shiny urbanity of Meerut alongside the vibe of the old neighbourhood.