Excerpt: House of Nostalgia, designed by Project Terra, stands rooted in land, memory, and the promise of change. With sloped tiled roofs and lime-plastered walls evoking the familiar, it reimagines vernacular wisdom for contemporary life. Challenging the binary of tradition versus progress, the design explores how rural architecture can evolve, bridging continuity between generations, land, and material.
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[Text as submitted by architect] In the quaint village of Khandiya in Gujarat’s Panchmahal district, a new house stands rooted in land, memory, and the promise of change. Sloped tiled roofs, thick lime-plastered walls, earthen floors, and shaded plinths suggest a familiar rural home.
Yet this dwelling is a deliberate architectural proposition—challenging the binary of tradition versus progress. Could rural architecture evolve rather than be abandoned? Could modular design bridge the widening gap between India’s transitioning rural communities and the housing being built for them?
Set in the rural landscape of Panchmahal, Gujarat, this home reimagines vernacular wisdom for contemporary life. Crafted with local stone, brick, lime, and crowned with a sloping Mangalore tile roof, it draws from memories of old homes and hotels.
Every corner is rooted in regional typologies, yet adapted to present-day needs. The house becomes a quiet assertion of continuity—between generations, between land and material, between the remembered and the lived.
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