- Date : June 2024 | The Ray
- Featured Project : The Ray
”The Ray is a vacation home located in Alibag, on the Indian coast south of Mumbai. The project, developed by the Dutch firm Architecture Brio, emphasizes the tropical landscape and outdoor living with its functional and material characteristics.
Two pavilions create a completely contrasting compositional reading between modernism and traditionalism. Colors, materials, and craftsmanship summarize the design intervention aimed at generating a “landscape silhouette.” Clad in typical white “Dhrangadhra” stone, the pavilions open up to the sea with their elegance and brightness of the material, also through sliding steel windows.
They are arranged on a stone base that acts as a retaining wall. Half of the rooms are thus underground and enjoy openness to the landscape through a semi-open courtyard, also seeking intimacy.
The sinuous movements of the surrounding landscape are echoed in the curves of an infinity pool that embraces the outdoor spaces, interrupted by construction elements such as plinths and stepped platforms. Inside, the craftsmanship of the design is signed by the artisans of Rajasthan, who worked stone and wood for the floor and bathroom sinks.
The inclusion of the house in the landscape identifies the intention to enrich the hillside profile that opens up to the ocean, working on the sense of a “comfortable urban scale” that separates from the construction disorder generated in recent years.