Daaji’s Home

Lead Architects : Snehal Suthar,Bhadri Suthar

Daaji’shome,designedfortheWorldspiritualleaderfor(Heartfulness)(awardedPadmaBhushan)transcendsbricksandmortar.Itmergesthephysicalandemotional,replacing‘you’and‘I’with‘US’.InfluencedbyBiophilicideology,itembodiesasymbioticrelationshipwithnature.ThehouseissituatedintheHeartfulnessCentreatKanhaShantivanaminHyderabad,inagatedcommunity.Theland,initially,wasfullofrockswithafewexistingtrees.Theserocks,itissaid,areprimevalentities,oneoftheveryfirstintheworld.Sensingtheirintrinsicpreciousnessanduniqueness,Daajiwishedtokeeptheminsitu.This,thus,becameachallengewhileplanningtheorganizationandexecutingthefootprintofthehouse.DrawinginspirationfromIndianhouseholdvaluesoftogetherness,sacrifice,andlove.Preservingancientrocksandtrees,honouringtheirprimordialsignificance.Ahomegoesbeyondphysicality,creatingalovingenvironment.Theplantsprovidingmedicineandoxygenwhileexchangingvibrations.Thedesignprioritizinghabitatpreservationbalanceandadeepconnectionwithnaturedefinetheessenceofahome.Thismakesthishousea‘home’—makingitclearthatitisnotjustthestrengthofbrickbutalsothestrengthoflovethatbindstherootsofthehome.