House of Dancing Cactus – Pondicherry, India
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House of Dancing Cactus – Pondicherry, India
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art & architecture
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© Kaptured Studios
Project Description
Inhabiting an area of 1200 sq ft, this house in Pondicherry is one of its kind. The goal was to create a house that would fulfil the client requirements of a guest house while unfolding into something that would bring the users imagination alive. House of Dancing Cactus is a two-storey building conceptualised by the usage of bricks – a locally available material in Pondicherry - and seeks to mimic the waves of the sea of this coastal town. This brutalist facade was created using exposed bricks in patterns that break the conventional brick wall and also by challenging bricks structural stability. Breaking the monotony in brick laying pattern with skilled labour and detailed technical drawings for bringing in more surface area and surface shadow projections to reduce heat on walls with a characteristic element, an identity “house of dancing cactus” stands bold in its environment impersonating a cactus in a garden.
