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Solo House

Year: 2016
Type: Study
Status: Unbuilt

Design Team:
Lijo John Mathew

The Solo House would be an example of how a set of typological elements manifest into an Architecture. An Architecture which attempts to represent symbolically, the spiritual journey of an individual as inspired from various spiritual initiation journeys a person participates in.

The typological forms Include 1: A Wall that becomes inhabitable 2: An isolated Tower. The types are as such, so that they can be viewed from one another. The individual can descend the various levels with different functions from the top walled garden to the place where he leaves the inhabitable wall, a going down and under. The individual approaches the tower that is isolated through a garden and reaches to the top by climbing back up to the level of the walled garden. The tower becomes a space to stand and contemplate with freedom to end everything or to conjure up the courage to walk back in life.