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SAI GLHAL HOUSE, NEW DELL
Designed for an artist, the Gujral house
provided approxima 800 square metic of
living space also intended for the display of
puintings and works of are, The splie-level
configuration ofiving room, mezzanine ad
basement spaces was bised upon to previous
houses in Deli which explored a open plan
arrangement
‘A centel staircase connects various levels ofthe
welling which havea difference in eight of one
and shal metres. Certain interior spaces have
direct access to outdoor gardens 2 dering levels
the basement, for example is one and a half metres
fiom ground level and contains a workshop for
‘ceramics joined to sunken open court Sina,
‘the main living space at plas one and a half metres
«an be continued outwards onto the rised garden.
Views from the house at this level ar considerably
shove street lve and cowards a atk, ehereby
linking visually ehe garden and the public domain
beyond, withoue infringement of privy.
The Gujal house ws constrcted with exposed
bricks, without surice treatnient internally ot
externally: Moreover, the concrete loo labs and
beams were left expose the marks of the wooden
planks used for shutevng are sil visible, Large
pivoting doors of ealeand gas scparite the living
seas and the garden,