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    Chitra Vishwanath Project: Hornbill House Location: Nilgiri, Tamil Nadu

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    The document describes the Hornbill House, a holiday chalet designed by Biome Environmental Solutions in Nilgiri, Tamil Nadu, India. The single-story house is nestled into a hillside overlooking a tea and coffee plantation. It uses local stone on the exterior walls and mud bricks inside to blend in with the natural surroundings. Key features include an arrow-shaped roof providing shelter and views of the surrounding valleys and hills from within.

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    The document describes the Hornbill House, a holiday chalet designed by Biome Environmental Solutions in Nilgiri, Tamil Nadu, India. The single-story house is nestled into a hillside overlooking a tea and coffee plantation. It uses local stone on the exterior walls and mud bricks inside to blend in with the natural surroundings. Key features include an arrow-shaped roof providing shelter and views of the surrounding valleys and hills from within.

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    Chitra Vishwanath Project: Hornbill House Location: Nilgiri, Tamil Nadu

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    The document describes the Hornbill House, a holiday chalet designed by Biome Environmental Solutions in Nilgiri, Tamil Nadu, India. The single-story house is nestled into a hillside overlooking a tea and coffee plantation. It uses local stone on the exterior walls and mud bricks inside to blend in with the natural surroundings. Key features include an arrow-shaped roof providing shelter and views of the surrounding valleys and hills from within.

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    Chitra Vishwanath

    Project: Hornbill house


    location: Nilgiri,Tamil Nadu
    Biome environmental solution
    • Chitra Vishwanath architects
    has designed and implemented hundreds of real estate developments –
    residences, institutions and resorts – guided by ecological principles,
    integrating sound water, energy and land-use thinking into design
    • Biome environmental solutions is a Bangalore-based design firm
    focused on ecology, architecture and water.  The office’s diverse team
    includes designers, architects, civil and mechanical engineers and urban
    planners from various parts of India and abroad.  The designs are
    undertaken by various member of this team in constant collaboration
    with each other via group discussions & exchanges and periodic
    meetings.
    Hornbill house
    • This holiday chalet by Bangalore firm
    biome environmental solutions and nestles
    into a hillside overlooking a tea and coffee
    plantation in southern India.
    • Hornbill house shelters below a tree in the
    grounds of the o'land plantation in Nilgiris,
    a district of Tamil nidus.
    Clint aspect
    • We suggested that these bungalows be
    located over the expanse of the property
    rather than a close knit development.
    Analysis
    •  Located at o'land estate, a tea and coffee plantation.
    • The hornbill house is located on an old drying yard sitting
    on the edge of a water fall. 
    •  The house opens onto the views of this water fall, a valley
    with a backdrop of layers of mountains in different hues of
    blue of the sky, and green of the tea gardens,
    • Thereby integrating each of these views strategically from
    a different direction from within the house.
    • All the rooms have predominant view of one of these
    features, while having a glimpse of the rest.
    Design idea
    • The idea was to provide privacy to the guests and a
    new and varied experience to a returning guest.
    • The estate already had motor-able roads and usable
    footpaths within and therefore these were used to
    reach the different locations with ease.
    • Thus the building sites were chosen based on the
    views, easy access to a road or footpath, and terrain.
    Construction techniques
    External wall stone

    • The walls are composite, of stone on the outside


    and mud bricks on the inside.
    •  The exterior stone walls blends with the rock
    face near to which the building is located and
    hence rooted to it's surroundings whereas the
    inner mud walls provide a feel of warmth and
    shelter.

    Mud brick wall

    rustic timber furniture


    Construction techniques
    • The striking roof of the villa invokes a sense of Roof profile
    flight that one feels while gazing at the views of
    the valley and hills from within the building.
    • An arrow-shaped roof gives the structure an
    aerodynamic appearance and shelters a small
    terrace in front of the master bedroom.

    Dormer window used

    Interior view Interior view


    Material used
    •  STONE 
    • EARTH BRICK  Stone

    • TIMBER

    Earth brick

    Timber
    Plan

    Ground floor plan First floor plan


    Sections
    Elevation

    East elevation North elevation

    South elevation West elevation


    Thank you

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