Waterfront Home by Billimoria Architects

About the Principal Designer:

Billimoria & Associates was founded in 2001 by Darius Billimoria, 5 years after graduating from an architecture College in Bangalore, India. His firm offers architecture and interior design services, and over the course of a decade in the practice, he has handled projects in the residential, commercial, hospitality and institutional sectors. 

Explore more of his work on: billimoriaarchitecture.com 

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Project Fact File:

• Project Name: Waterfront Home
• Project Location: Bengaluru
• Year of Completion: 2017
• Principal Designer: Ar. Darius Billimoria
• Design Team: Ar. Ashini Kala, Ar. Jyotsna Rao
• Photography By: Midhun KT
• Built-up Area: 1000 sq. m/ 10764 sq. ft 
• Contractors: Praful Padiyar, Prasanna Kumar

Description as provided by the Designer:

The Waterfront Home is all about what's outside it...! 

The idea was to create an interior environment that melts away and allows the eye to gravitate to the stunning views outside - the indigenous trees and the lake beyond. All walls, floors, and ceilings are white and flooded with plenty of natural daylight. 

The resulting white and bright interior environment blurs the foreground, softens the transition between in and out, and allows the lake and the surrounding greenery to "jump out" at you dramatically when viewed from anywhere within the home! 

The house makes a bold statement with a built-up area of 1000sq meters and a dramatic form. Yet, as we wander through the large, bright, and airy spaces, one always feels that the lake is the centerpiece!

The spaces are spread over two floors. The ground floor features an entrance foyer with a double-height, skylit courtyard adjacent to it. The courtyard features a serene water feature below the skylight. The skylight ensures ample daylighting in the entrance lobby and courtyard, and thus there is a smooth transition from out to in. 

Flanking the courtyard and to the east of it is another massive double-height volume that houses the living room, the dining room, and a dry kitchen. This is the core of the home. Behind the dry kitchen is a wet kitchen, and the two are linked with one of the house's signature features - two sliding doors that disappear into cavity walls at both ends of the kitchen. 

To the south of the wet kitchen is the service zone- a utility area with a washing machine and dryer, quarters for the house help, and a driver's restroom. A guest bedroom occurs north of the skylit courtyard and has a set of glazed sliding doors that lead onto a massive covered deck area. This deck looks out at the gardens and the lake beyond. 

The first floor comprises a family room on the south, a lounge on the north, and two bedrooms - the master bedroom and a daughter's room, both with walk-in wardrobes and attached toilets. The family room looks onto the courtyard, and the lounge looks down to the bigger double-height volume. The two double-height volumes create great connectivity between the ground and first floors.