Architects: Ramya Prasad
Firm: RP Architects Pondicherry
Location: Kottakuppam, Tamil Nadu
Client: Karthikeyan Palaniandy
Built-up Area: 4870 sq. ft
Construction: 1 year (2018-2019)
Project Year: 2019
Total cost: 1.2 crores ( Rs. 2465 /Sqft)
Typology: Hotel / Guest House
Drawing credits: Ramya Prasad
Photo credits : Shelters studioz
Villa Ecotiva
Villa Ecotiva, a hotel building in the tourist city of Pondicherry, built with the aim to give the users, a sustainable natural environment – the place gives an environment to escape from the regular urban busy concretized building environment.
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Central ramp entry/ courtyard/ natural ventilation shaft
The design focuses on passive natural ventilation systems and natural lighting. The building is shaded in a way that the central courtyard cum entrance with a water body helps to cool the outdoor air entering the building and circulating it into the rooms of the hotel. The central courtyard also acts as a wind chimney letting the hot air escape from the top.
Photo: CSEB walls
Use of natural materials: Besides adopting a minimalistic approach to the design of the building, cautious decision were made in the use of materials. The walls are made out ofCompressed Stabilized Earth Blocks (CSEB), energy efficient material with very less embodied energy and carbon emissions.
Natural stone flooring
To make an anti-slippery flooring in the passage we used natural Tandur stones.
The flooring is done with natural stones non-industrial polished stone of Tandur and Kadappa stone flooring. Oxide flooring or IPS (Indian Patent Stone) with skilled local labourers is used in all the rooms, giving the traditional look and feel to the place.
Waste Kadappa stone walls
The waste stone edges from the stone flooring slab factories of Kadappa, which goes as waste into the landfills have been procured and used as stone walls giving a stone cladded ambience with the chance to recycle the waste stone pieces.
Poured earth concrete (PEC walls)
Demolished building material wastes have been crushed into smaller pieces and used in the building of compound walls mixed with red soil as poured earth concrete (PEC walls).
Upcycled wood works
All the wood works in the building – doors, windows and furniture are made upcycling the reclaimed wood from old demolished buildings.
Design and pattern–Corridor railing (day & night)- shadow pattern
Play of colours with natural material – Showing stained glass, oxide flooring colour
Red from the red soil in the CSEB bricks and Grey from the Kadappa stone with the natural exposed finish of the concrete surfaces and a little splash of colours with the stained glasses in different parts of the building combined with the coloured oxide flooring give the Villa a mosaic of patterns and colours.
Backyard
Staircase
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