​House in DLF 5 is a residential project. The project entails altering an early 2000`s building to accommodate the client’s current day requirement. The existing house consisted of a ground floor structure and an office situated in the basement. The client wished to alter the function of the ground floor to an entertainment floor and add an additional two floors for the son’s family and his respectively. We gave the family 2 floors entailing their personal requirements-lounge space, a spa, a children’s play area, and guest bedrooms. The spatial planning was conducted in a way that each bedroom entailed a walk-in-wardrobe, a study, and a seating nook. The bedrooms exited out to a black Basalt clad balcony. Each balcony entailed 2 planters on either side of the space. All the family rooms opened up to a double-height space created by a steel structure crafted and placed carefully over the driveway. We realized the house had a requirement of space, catalytic enough to lead to conversations. We did not want to contribute to the construction of a house where members were not able to interact with each other. It is invariably a house, not an apartment. A courtyard was thus conceived. The steel structure or the folly, can be accessed from the first floor and is an open space that can be altered as per nature and activities it is subjected to; on some occasions, it can be modified as an entertainment lounge. On other days a playpen for kids to interact with the grandparents. In terms of materiality; Indian stones have been used in the house predominantly to provide a native aesthetic. Indian rosewood is a major driving ingredient in the interior and has been used in various variants of paints. The internal balcony is adorned with a 3.6 m high teak sliding/folding door thereby opening up space to the double-height nature of the folly. A similar set of doors with a bench inset is replicated on the sauna/jacuzzi side as well. The sauna wall is a multiple of two finishes of the Khareda stone. Both the spa wall and the interior balcony open up to curvilinear skylights. The exterior of the house has screens fabricated of recycled ipay wood both contributing as a shade from SW sun and as a framework for planters to grow to provide privacy while the user sat in their balcony.