The Mango House: Simple and Organic

 The Mango House: Simple and Organic

 

Family & Parenting,Recreation & Leisure,Real Estate The quest to connect with the basic pleasures that nature bestows forms the essence of the design-and-build approach for the Mango House… On a plot

 bound by mango trees, a north-facing entrance with a luxurious driveway and an east-facing kitchen that catches the early morning sun, openings on all four sides provide uninterrupted views of the verdant outdoors to the city-dwelling homeowners, as the home makes for a much looked-forward-to retreat in the picturesque coastal town of Alibaug. Not one of the 70-to-80-year-old mango trees was cut to carve out

 this 6,000 sq. ft. holiday home. With the trees, at times, paternally standing protectively like a boundary wall, while at others, maternally spreading their leafy canopy to provide shade, Ar. Puran Kumar, principal, Puran Kumar Architects an