We Design Studio s Goa home is a materially layered retreat among salt pans
Described as the studio’s ‘first 100 per cent indigenous home’, the Salt Pan Read more..
The Salt Pan House, as the name suggests, is located at the edge of a salt pan in the tropical suburbs of Goa, India. Designed by We Design Studio, a Mumbai-based architecture practice, the residential architecture is nestled between the Chapora River and a mangrove belt. Instead of asserting itself over the fragile landscape, the residence is conceived as a quiet observer— adjusted to climate, rooted in material honesty and attuned to the rhythms of its surrounding. Channelling the spirit of the three salt pans it overlooks, which constitute eight out of ten acres of the site, the architecture unfolds in three layers of materiality within a controlled footprint of 6,000 sq ft. “From the outset, the vision shared by the architect and the client was one of restraint and reverence: a spatial response guided not by ornament, but by climate, context and material truth,” the studio tells STIR.
