The site and the dilemma

The Site:

The process started about year and a half ago, when we decided to start exploring options of site for the bungalow.

Site we finally decided upon was initially rejected due to following reasons:

1. Unusual shape of the plot - it is a Triangle!

2. A road on the back side

3. Site too small

However, many things were going for the site as well - It is in a very good locality of Ahmedabad, It is very close to Trupti's family and fairly placed distance from my family as well. Kids school is actually a walking distance, Ahmedabad BRTS is also in a walking distance. Our office is about 10-15 min drive, too many reasons to consider it.

But, we were not convinced due to above reasons. We kept on exploring places around Shilaj area - which is beautiful up and coming locality if you want to live in a bungalow. Distance from my family and school swayed us away from settling in that area.

Than came our savior - Mr. Prashant Pradhan. My beloved brother-in-law and awesome architect with varied experience! We showed the site to him - and he was quiet excited about it. He sent some initial design to us which instantly convinced us to build the unusual shaped home on this unusual shaped plot!

Consider the problems that were associated with this location:

1. Triangle plot

2. 537 sq.yd. area (pretty small to be able to build a decent house considering the shape)

3. A road on the longest side of the plot requiring margin setback of 6 mtr.

4. Real usable footprint is small and difficult to adjust rooms without weird angles in it

Here is the shape of the plot:

There was some construction done up to the Plinth level in this plot, which we had to remove first.

The plot looked like this standing at the gate (shown at the top in layout):

So all in all, we decided to go ahead with the project - building our dream home with "थोडा हटके" architecture in March 2013.

As you can see, it is difficult to consider वास्तु elements with the shape of the plot. However, it is told to us that the shape of the plot is not really a triangle, it is गौमुख, which is one of the best shapes of the plot from Vastu point of view.

None the less, we termed our project "उत्सव (Utsav)" - celebration of our gratitude towards the family, friends, mother nature; celebration of our beliefs - celebration of our life

psst... try reversing utsav :-)