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Sona Farm — Origami Over a Mound

Set within an expansive agricultural landscape, Sona Farm is imagined as a light, origami-like form resting gently on a sculpted mound of earth. The house does not rise out of the ground as an object — instead, it settles into the land, allowing the terrain, the slopes, and the garden to become an integral part of the architectural experience.

The gently folded roofs define the character of the project. They tilt, stretch, and lift like paper planes — creating deep overhangs, shaded verandahs, and transitional spaces that blur the threshold between inside and outside. The building is experienced not as a single volume, but as a series of pavilions tied together through walkways, courts, and landscape edges.

 

A House Shaped by Landform

The mound is both a design move and a spatial device. It elevates the house slightly above the surrounding fields, creating vantage points toward the horizon, while also allowing the lawn to flow up toward the verandahs and plinths. Walking around the house becomes a soft climb and descent — a slow movement across gradients, trees, flowering shrubs, and stone retaining edges.

Instead of imposing itself on the site, the house participates in it. The architecture sits lightly, allowing the sky, wind, and changing seasons to complete the composition.

 

Lightweight Construction as Expression

The project uses a light gauge steel frame system (LGSF), where structure and surface are reduced to an elegant skeletal rhythm. The folded roofs, timber-lined ceilings, and frameless spans create large, open interior volumes filled with diffused light from clerestory windows.

Here, construction is not concealed — it becomes part of the architectural language. The house celebrates assembly, alignment, and the precision of lightweight construction, turning technique into spatial experience.

 

Verandahs, Bougainvillea, and Edges of Pause

Shaded verandahs wrap around the living spaces, opening them to gardens on all sides. Bougainvillea-covered trellises soften the stone plinths, allowing the landscape to climb up to the built form. The garden is not ornamental — it is lived in, walked through, occupied in fragments of time.

There are no hard boundaries between outdoor rooms and indoor ones. Instead, thresholds dissolve into places to sit, lean, gather, or watch the sky change through the day.

 

Life Within the House

The interior is warm, open, and inwardly calm — a place for conversations, gatherings, music, and evenings spent together. The architecture is not monumental; it is intimate and human-scaled. It accommodates everyday life while offering moments of solitude — framed views, quiet corners, long shadows on the floor.

Over time, the house has become less of a building and more of a setting — for seasons, celebrations, friendships, and memory.

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Typology: Private Residential

Location: Green Beauty Farms, Sec-135, Noida

Plot Area: 1 Acre

Built-up Area: 2,700 Sq. Ft.

Completion: 2019

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Principal Architect: Shrutiniwas Sharma

Landscape Architect: Anumeha Singh

Photography: Shrutiniwas Sharma