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My home in the
hills addresses a range of individual and family requirements.
And retains a constant link with the outdoors. Each house is
planned as home for the holidays. A first of its
kind, my home in hills redefines new ideas
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Design & layout of the house
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Construction practice
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Conservation of services & utilities
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Landscape design
FEATURES
1)
Extensive
openings to connect visually and literally with the outdoors
2) Retain
the tree cover by disbursing the home around them.
3) Use
of local materials stone walls and wooden flooring of pine
4) Extensive
use of traditional design and eco-friendly features such as
- Bay windows
- Attics
- Rooftop study
- Verandahs
- Common Service area
- Servants quarters
- Security
- Thermal insulation in outer walls
- Common water harvesting pits
- Solar heaters for rooms/water
- Cavity wall construction to increase thermal
capacity of wall
- Common waste management/recycling
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