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Architects: Archiopteryx
- Area: 500 m²
- Year: 2022
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Photographs:Andre J Fanthome
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Manufacturers: Hitachi Air Conditioning, Monocrystalline, Asahi India, Berger, Jaisalmer Yellow, Jaquar, Kohler, Kone, Phillips, Vikram
Ashvattha: ‘the Sacred Fig’, derived from the Sanskrit terms ‘shva’ (tomorrow) and ‘stha’ (that which remains). NOIDA is a planned satellite city of Delhi, and part of the National Capital region of India. The city is organized as a series of rectilinear tree-lined transportation grids: encompassing sectors, that are further divided into blocks of plots. The ‘People tree house’ is a 7000 sqft building, built on one such plot, and is surrounded by neighboring buildings on three sides. The clients: medical entrepreneurs and their children, lovingly chose and named the plot ‘Ashvattha’ based on the fortuitously located ‘fig tree’ to the eastern corner of the site.
