Cove, North Goa
The Trio
A vacation abode for three friends in North Goa, The Cove is a getaway home that harnesses the true sentiment of comfort entwined with elevated living. This residence is conceptualised to suit the ideas and preferences of three distinct clients, ensuring that each feels tethered to the overall design narrative. As a second home for the clients, this residence had to conjure a stark contrast from their busy lifestyles in the bustling city of Delhi. The sea-facing plot is limited in its square footage, whilst offering spectacular views of the horizon. A humble fisherman’s hut, the untamed plantation and the infinite extent of the ocean are the elements that weave the original landscape of this tucked-away parcel of land — held still and untainted in the clasps of time. The site is dotted by lush coconut and almond trees that create an envelope of green around the home.
The sea-facing plot is limited in its square footage, whilst offering arresting views of the horizon that lays in the distance, framing the verdant neighbouring plantation’s views against the clear blue skies. The architectural intervention is grounded, while aiming to create a layered, yet simple articulation of the site, its climatological parameters, and the surrounding context.
Responding to Goa’s balmy, yet humid weather across the year, the built volume has been imagined as a rooted and earthy structure amidst the dense plantations, where it is one with its context. Channeling a minimalistic identity and adding to the organic landscape’s fabric with its crisp geometric silhouette and horizontality, the house is crowned with a sloping roof that tilts on its axis. This tilting phenomenon, aside from tackling Goa’s torrential rains, welcomes the sea breeze to meander through the spatial volume.
The sea-facing plot is limited in its square footage, whilst offering arresting views of the horizon that lays in the distance, framing the verdant neighbouring plantation’s views against the clear blue skies. The architectural intervention is grounded, while aiming to create a layered, yet simple articulation of the site, its climatological parameters, and the surrounding context.
Responding to Goa’s balmy, yet humid weather across the year, the built volume has been imagined as a rooted and earthy structure amidst the dense plantations, where it is one with its context. Channeling a minimalistic identity and adding to the organic landscape’s fabric with its crisp geometric silhouette and horizontality, the house is crowned with a sloping roof that tilts on its axis. This tilting phenomenon, aside from tackling Goa’s torrential rains, welcomes the sea breeze to meander through the spatial volume.
The interior design scheme has been seamed together with a minimalist approach while the indoor spaces converse silently with the outdoors. The ground floor has been conceptualised as a monolithic base, keeping the privacy intact via optimum glazing. The first floor witnesses the introduction of larger glazed sections and apertures, which offer transforming views as the altitude changes and the day morphs from dawn to dusk. The relationship amidst the indoors and outdoors in the North Goa Residence pays homage to the nature-based legacy that Goa celebrates. The outdoor spaces are created as an extension to the interior living spaces, where the families can spend time in the lap of nature, under the azure skies and the ocean’s fringes.
A rectilinear pool hugs the property’s edge with its rustic gargoyle fountain spouts; the interior living and family dining nooks and a private bedroom on the ground floor look into this serene pool through their fenestrated sections. The wooden jaali wall, along the periphery of the home’s boundary, facing the ocean offers the inhabitants an additional layer of privacy as they enjoy their time by the pool and gather around the deck. The North Goa Residence fixates on the narration of a design story that allows the site’s pristine natural identity to create a residence where the ocean, sky and the plantations welcome the home into their tranquil embrace, creating a refuge for the homeowners.
