Residential · Dhanbad
Shared rooms, verandahs and a garden at the centre of daily life.
The design
The planning places the house towards one side of the plot, leaving a broad garden beside the shared rooms. Verandahs form intermediate spaces between the interior and the landscape. The garden is part of the organisation of the house, with rooms and circulation arranged in relation to it.
In Concept 2, a curved drive leads from the northern approach to parking and the entrance verandah. The drawing room sits beside an open verandah, while dining and an open kitchen form another shared zone along the garden edge. Two ground-floor bedrooms occupy the other side of the plan.
The upper plan adds three bedrooms, a home office and a puja hall around the stair and connecting passage. A terrace with a proposed sloping roof extends the upper level towards the garden side. The plans explore how private rooms, work and worship can sit alongside shared family spaces.
The March and early-April drawings explored a more dispersed arrangement, with double-height living, upper-floor bridges and several terraces. Concept 2, preserved in the late-April archive, reorganises these relationships around the stair, drawing room and arrival space. The drawings below show that later planning study; they are not records of the completed house.
The architectural drawings
Ground and first-floor plans from Concept 2 in the April 2024 archive. Numbered keys identify uses; the north arrows follow the source's north-side notation. Select a plan to enlarge it.
Portfolio reproductions of APAS concept plans. Annotations and technical title blocks are omitted; source geometry is retained. No fixed print scale. Not for construction or certification of the built outcome.
Our involvement
Concept design and schematic planning by Ar. Anupam Prasad and APAS, documented in March–April 2024. This case study presents the planning studies and the spatial relationships explored through successive proposals.
Concept design and schematic planning: Ar. Anupam Prasad, Anupam Prasad Architecture Studio.
Drawings: APAS project archive, prepared for portfolio presentation.
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