Nestled in the heart of Nepal, Verdant Villa stands as a testament to modern architecture’s harmonious integration with nature. Designed by the visionary team at 42MM Architecture, this residence redefines the concept of home through its innovative spatial planning, which blends contemporary design with the natural landscape. The villa’s distinct layered design, marked by green belts and a modern interpretation of the traditional courtyard, offers a refreshing and evolving living experience.
With a meticulous choice of materials such as steel, glass, concrete, and natural textures, Verdant Villa represents a fusion of minimalism, sustainability, and cutting-edge design. This architectural masterpiece is more than just a house; it’s a living, breathing structure that embodies a deep connection to its environment, offering both privacy and openness through the strategic use of green buffers and transparent surfaces.
Client Brief:
The client, a young businessman leading a multifaceted industry, envisioned a house that embodies modernity and evolution at its core. To represent this vision, the design team opted for a layered planning approach, incorporating a modern interpretation of the traditional courtyard through green belts. The concept of these layers is emphasized and literally translated into both the façade and the overall volume of the house.
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Theme of the Verdant Villa:
The house is a modern interlock of greens and grays. The grays form voids within the green envelope shaped by the built mass. Meanwhile, the design of the house emphasizes a volumetric and visual interplay of green belts. The Verdant Villa in its appearance is extremely modern and nonconformist. An intersection of semi-permeable surfaces of metal, glass, and wood encases the space. The materials and punctuations are designed to give a feel of an exoskeleton placed on a greenscape.
Concept:
Designed to let nature dance within itself, the Verdant Villa is carefully planned to unite each space with green buffers. A layered convergence of volume that expresses itself distinctly in its spatial planning, facia skeleton, and volumetric geometry. It is a farmhouse that welcomes the beautiful landscape and embraces the scenic beauty through a gradual gradation of spaces.
The sliced geometry and its intersection with the green buffers find its rationale in the spatial syntax of the house. Additionally, the designers crafted the house in layers of public, semi-public, and private zones. Each of these distinctly highlighting the volume. They are further segregated with greens having a unique characteristic of its own. The public zone- a see-through block of glass as an expression of welcome, the semi-public area -carefully eclipsed in parts with greenery flowing into it from the expansive private lawns of the home- slowly giving way to the intimacy of the inner sanctum-the private, quiet part of the house.
The Verdant Villa faces east-west, with each segment designed to welcome the east and west sun through its permeable green buffers. It ensures ample light in every corner of the house while filtering the heat out through the green buffers.
Colour & Material Palette
This house is sculpted with modern sensibilities in steel, glass, and concrete. The interiors represent a minimalistic style. The surfaces remain unadorned, accented only by a layer of carefully curated art. The elevation and external finishes seamlessly continue into the internal finishes. It further features materials like exposed concrete, leather, untreated wood, stone, and metal. The interiors of the house are a representation of the fact that the house is architecturally complete as a whole. Each ingredient of the house narrates a part of a larger story that is the reflection of the aspirations, interests, and lifestyles of its inhabitants. It further perpetuates an unpolished raw look and is minimalistic in its approach. It is a unique conglomeration of bits that revitalize through an engagement with nature.
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The interaction between different volumes of the Verdant Villa is refreshing and evergreen for the inhabitants of the house. The green buffers that segment the volume serves two purposes one it defines the privacy of the house second create intersections and alignments that make the house a masterpiece by different directors.
The volume collides, intersects, and stays parallel to the green vertebra of the house. This spatial experience is our signature style.
Sustainable/green features in the Verdant Villa
The house is wrapped in a lush blanket of green. The drawing room & lounge barely has solid walls as it embraces the front lawn with corner glass windows. White staircase and the mandir adorn a beautiful glass roof that flushes light and features vegetation within the segment. While the living room feels like the space in transition, the hearth of the house is where all the spaces converge. It is translucent with screens and double heights. It opens from front as well as back to the green lawns of the house. Visually from any point in the house, a layer of greens embarked upon.
Verdant Villa Walkthrough:
Drawing room & Dining Room: The drawing room forms the part of the landscape. It is only 2 solid wall and 2 transparent that opens into the front lawn. The rooms main feature is the spectacular view of the lawn and the chandelier crowns. It further combines both drawing and dining space together
Living room: The double heighted living room is the congruent space of the Verdant Villa that unites both the floors, the green segments together. The room feels like a part of the circulation and an independent space in itself. The semi-permeable screens in the space secure the privacy of the space at the same time keeps it connected with the other spaces. The free-standing TV wall help encase the space yet stands out as a feature in itself. You can see the corridor, staircase, mandir and the lobby in the upper floor from this point in the house.
Mandir: It is conceptualized as a parda and is a part of the entrance foyer. It is a feature that is visible from the entrance of the house. The idea was to channelize the positive energy from the place of worship to the entire house. It sits as a feature in the green belt.
Staircase: Designed to glorify the sleekness in design, the staircase pivots around a sheer wall and gives a floating effect. It forms a part of the green buffer in the house and is capped by a glass ceiling above.
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Master bedrooms
The master bedroom opens on both ends and highlights textures as the main feature of the room. It showcases a neat and clean design language, with color thoughtfully introduced through curated artwork. Wood and stone textures represents the mature yet simple nature of its user.
Master Toilets: There is a subconscious sense of greens in the washrooms. The spaces exude a voluminous vibe, further enhanced by the abundant natural light flowing through them. The jaali filters out the light and creates an interesting light pattern on the floor. Meanwhile, stone frames and defines the wet area, creating a distinct and elegant separation. It is a space to relax and rejuvenate.
Kids Bedroom
The teenager’s room features a rustic design, where various textures and materials come together in neutral hues. The furniture arrangements are thoughtfully crafted to evolve with their changing needs. It entails spaces for both entertaining friends and self-introspective corners. The art and embellishments used here further represent the interests of a child. It is beyond simple geometric shapes, capturing both their age and inclinations.
Kids Toilet: The Kid’s toilet adorns beautiful blue subway tiles as the feature wall along with a white shell and printed floor. It is a quirky and playful take on the rustic-themed room. It does not break away from the modern look of the house but rather adds another experience to the interior palette.
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