This ancestral Gujarat home by Doro is a lesson in traditional yet elegant minimalism
As the summer rolls in and schools take a break, parents worry about taking their children on vacation for a quaint getaway from the hassle of life. However, some families choose to return to their roots in the villages where generations of the lineage come from. These homes, usually tall, smell of the family’s history, heritage, culture, and sweet memories.
When Naomy Parikh, the Founder and Project Architect, and Niyati Shah, the Project Architect, at Doro, were tasked with restoring an old family home in Gujarat, their first thought was to preserve its essence.
The home has belonged to the family for over 120 years, and is dubbed as ‘apdu gaam nu ghar’ or ‘Our home in our native village’. While the architect duo had to revive the 1,300 sq ft nostalgic quaint haven, its 150-year-old weakening wooden structure summoned a reconstruction completely.
The heirloom was reconstructed to adopt modern-functional clues with strategic emptiness. “The village tells a tale of two narratives: one where individuals preserve their heritage by transforming their inherited homes into cherished retreats, and the other where homes are abandoned, succumbing to the passage of time, while some adapt chaotically to the evolving lifestyle,” Niyati and Naomy shared with AD.
Describing their design language, the duo commented, “Our response was clear, departing from the previous form of the old house, we embraced larger volumns, accommodated temporal yet crucial social norms and mediated the balance between the old and the new.”
The yellow quaint home, while empty, has a certain charm to it.
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