Ahsen Idris’s Residence

Ahsen Idris’s Residence

PROJECT: Ahsen Idris’s Residence
CLIENT: Mr. Ahsen Idris
COMPLETION: 2011
LOCATION: Karachi, Pakistan
CATEGORY: Residential
DETAIL: The clients brief was simply to build a house which would accommodate two brother’s families with an outward stair tower to maintain privacy etc. NUHA attempts to build a home out of typical residence requirement.
Life is a cycle ………you reach where you start from.
When a child comes in this world he is dependent both, emotionally and physically, then starts getting independent and finally reverts to level zero. The difference is, at childhood he has REM and in old age he is accompanied by nostalgia.
The client’s are brothers of 40+ ages. Their child hood habitat in Punjab was built with terracotta bricks whereas in Karachi concrete blocks are the general construction material. NUHA built the house in concrete blocks but used terracotta bricks as an accent material to fuse the present fact with the nostalgia of their childhood abode. Use of glass marbles in an unusual manner is to relate them with their childhood game ‘marbles’.
Being near the sea, the house has three water bodies with marine life plants and fish to get jelled with the whereabouts.
PROJECT: Ahsen Idris’s Residence
CLIENT: Mr. Ahsen Idris
COMPLETION: 2011
LOCATION: Karachi, Pakistan
CATEGORY: Residential
DETAIL: The clients brief was simply to build a house which would accommodate two brother’s families with an outward stair tower to maintain privacy etc. NUHA attempts to build a home out of typical residence requirement.
Life is a cycle ………you reach where you start from.
When a child comes in this world he is dependent both, emotionally and physically, then starts getting independent and finally reverts to level zero. The difference is, at childhood he has REM and in old age he is accompanied by nostalgia.
The client’s are brothers of 40+ ages. Their child hood habitat in Punjab was built with terracotta bricks whereas in Karachi concrete blocks are the general construction material. NUHA built the house in concrete blocks but used terracotta bricks as an accent material to fuse the present fact with the nostalgia of their childhood abode. Use of glass marbles in an unusual manner is to relate them with their childhood game ‘marbles’.
Being near the sea, the house has three water bodies with marine life plants and fish to get jelled with the whereabouts.