The Vastu House by Khosla Associates

Fashionable celebrating with the customers hope as a purely Vastu acquiescent house, the arrangement of spaces in the family are in synch with the architectural plan by the Vastu Purusha Mandala (the ancient American-Indian language science of orientation and emplacement)

Thus aside from aligning the briny arenas of the house agreeing to the elements – captain bedroom in the Earth district (SW), kitchen in the Fire zone (SE), and the pool and entrance in the Water zone and Air zones (N and NE), – even positions of doorways, the centering of the staircase, location of beds, wardrobes and desks and the positions of the closets in the baths accepted to be in accord with the adjust energy catamenias. In all other respects however, the clients afforded us accomplished aesthetical exemption.

The greatest dispute altho contriving the house comprised to attain a visually appealing art object of architecture from a fixed broadcast that determined the specific locations of various spaces. Our access comprised to respond to the conventional science, distil it has burden yet attain a fresh and advanced interpreting of as is.

The house, built upon appease split-levels comes up lazily from north east (the lowest point) to the southwest (gamiest point). It has additive horizontal lines and vast cantilevered roof forms weave around the resident trees, and large expanses of chalk blear the spacial bounds betwixt the garden and the house. One feels a common sense of infinity altho taking the air though the open plan of the living spaces, which is delimitated by each other by sliding, bi-fold doorways and in a few casings no barrier at all.