A house arranged around peace.

A 350m² split-level family home in Vasant Vihar, New Delhi, with meeting facilities on the ground floor and a separate basement apartment. The client brief was unusually direct: we need peace. That sentence, more than any other, led the design.

The plan is organised around a double-height core — a lounge and gathering space, offset from the front of the apartment to control the view onto the park, raised and dropped from the rooms around it, materially distinct, filled with filtered daylight. It is the quietest room in the house and the one everything else looks back toward. Around it, the rest of the apartment unfolds: bedrooms, work and meeting space, the secondary apartments, all kept simple by design — neat detailing, fewer materials, fewer joints, more silence.

The project is rooted in Delhi, not imported into it. The studio carried out close local research into regional architectural traditions, climate and context — including the Lutyens-era houses nearby — and let those readings shape the building. Vastu Shastra, the traditional Indian framework of spatial alignment and proportion, runs quietly through the layout. Nature is brought inside the thermal envelope as a kind of veil between the household and the city beyond. The double-height core handles cooling and air movement naturally; deep external walls and ornamental screens shade the triple-glazed façade from sun and glare. Restraint, in the end, is the design move — a house that asks little of its inhabitants except their attention.