small projects

brickwall house

semi detached house renovation.

The brickwall house was an
exercise in reconfiguring shared
street realms and courtyards in
common clay brick, and bringing
fresh definition to the traditional
Asian wet kitchen.

The state of rising affluence in
South Asia has begun to replace
the colour and buzz of its open
markets, friendly neighbourhoods
and downtown schools with Cold
Storage, gated developments and
private education for the spoiled.
The traditional wet kitchen has
not been spared, tucked away in
spatial leftovers after the show
kitchen has been done.

The brickwall house has an open
kitchen at its heart, located as
comment on the vitally used but
increasingly marginalised wet
kitchen, Functionally, the design
restores cooking to the centre of
its Asian roots; emotively, as a
spot for domestic culinary theatre.