Sanctum住宅丨印度丨Renesa建筑与室内设计工作室

阿姆利则的Sanctum住宅由Renesa建筑与室内设计工作室操刀设计，堪称印度极为罕见的建筑实验——一次通过几何、材料与空间叙事来重新定义住宅类型的尝试。住宅坐落于占地三英亩的宽阔基地上，总建筑面积达12,000平方英尺。它将自身定位为一处关于“永恒”与“自省”的当代冥想空间，有别于印度常见的方盒子住宅或夸张华丽的宫殿式别墅。相反，它置身于现代主义的谱系之中，却又通过印度独特的气候、文化与情感现实加以诠释。核心是一座巨大的圆形庭院，它不仅是装饰性的姿态，更是生成性的虚空，成为整座住宅的支点。

© Renesa Architecture Design Interiors Studio

The Sanctum in Amritsar, designed by Renesa Architecture Design Interiors Studio, stands as a rare architectural experiment in India an attempt to reinvent the domestic typology through geometry, material, and spatial narrative. Spread over 12,000 sq ft on a generous three-acre plot, the house positions itself as a contemporary meditation on permanence and introspection, moving away from the predictable box-like houses or ostentatious palatial villas often seen in the country. Instead, it locates itself within a modernist lineage yet interprets it through the lens of Indian climatic, cultural, and emotional realities. At its heart lies a vast circular courtyard, not merely as an ornamental gesture but as the generative void around which the entire home pivots.

▼住宅概览，overall view of the house © Avesh Gaur

▼住宅鸟瞰，aerial view of the house © Avesh Gaur

圆形空间被精准雕刻，构筑出一个向内凝视的“圣所”，唤起人们对印度传统住宅中庭院的仪式性与精神性的记忆，但此处已被剥离了怀旧色彩，转化为一处现代的雕塑性景观：水景、植栽与遮荫的边界交织，营造出一个既冥想又共享的场所，并随光影流转而不断变化。

The circle is carved out with great precision, forming that recalls the ritualistic and spiritual role of courtyards in traditional Indian homes, yet here it is stripped of nostalgia and reimagined as a modern sculptural landscape water bodies, planters, and shaded peripheries interweave to produce a space that is contemplative, communal, and ever-changing with the light.

▼营造出既能冥想又能共享的场所，a space that is both contemplative and communal © Avesh Gaur

▼圆形中庭，circular atrium © Avesh Gaur

▼水景、植栽与遮荫的边界交织，a modern sculptural landscape water bodies, planters, and shaded peripheries interweave © Avesh Gaur

住宅的布局如同自圆心辐射而出的环带，空间从半公共的聚会区域逐渐过渡到更为私密的休闲与家庭区域。变化的层高、悬挑的楼板与露天的天井共同编排出一场空间的戏剧，垂直性的瞬间在整体的水平延展中被不断强调。住宅的水平感并非通过装饰来定义，而是通过砖与清水混凝土平面的对比组合，营造出一种静谧而庄重的建筑语言。

▼轴测图，axonometric © Renesa Architecture Design Interiors Studio

The home unfolds like a series of bands radiating from this circular heart, where spaces are arranged in carefully considered gradients from semi-public gathering zones to more private leisure and family areas. A play of shifting heights, cantilevered slabs, and open-to-sky cutouts choreographs a spatial drama where vertical moments punctuate the otherwise horizontal spread. The horizontality of the house is defined not by ornament but by the juxtaposition of brick and exposed concrete planes, which together build an architectural language of quiet monumentality.

▼砖与清水混凝土的组合，the juxtaposition of brick and exposed concrete planes © Avesh Gaur

▼营造出静谧而庄重的建筑语言，build an architectural language of quiet monumentality © Avesh Gaur

这种克制的表达是有意为之：厚重的砖墙与悬浮的混凝土板相对置，形成厚实与轻盈的对话，使住宅既深深扎根于土地，又向天空敞开。室内空间则呈现出精致的温暖感：中世纪现代风格的木材质感、低矮的皮革座椅与简洁的家具线条，与外部的粗粝形成对照，又彼此呼应。这种粗与细、硬与软、宏大与亲密的二元性赋予了Sanctum独特的情感张力。

The restraint in articulation is deliberate the heavy mass of brick walls set against hovering concrete slabs creates a play of solidity and levity, anchoring the house into the earth while simultaneously opening it to the sky. Inside, the interiors bring in a sense of refined warmth: a mid-century modern aesthetic of tactile woods, low-slung leather seating, and clean-lined furniture contrasts yet complements the rawness of the exterior. This duality of rough and smooth, hard and soft, monumental and intimate gives The Sanctum its distinctive emotional charge.

▼室内空间呈现出精致的温暖感，the interiors bring in a sense of refined warmth © Avesh Gaur

▼低矮的皮革座椅与简洁的家具线条，low-slung leather seating, and clean-lined furniture © Avesh Gaur

▼与外部的粗粝形成对比又彼此呼应，contrasts yet complements the rawness of the exterior © Avesh Gaur

在住宅的行进过程中，人们不断穿越门槛：从压缩的走廊进入宽敞的起居区，从厚重的砖砌步道走向光影充盈的庭院。建筑因而变得富于氛围：阴影在弧形混凝土表面延展，水面的反射在微光中闪烁，而庭院中升起的树木被圆形中庭的框景捕捉，提醒居者自然与建筑的持续对话。中心与边缘的关系成为项目的主导隐喻——住宅作为“圣所”，外部世界则是其同心展开。无论是墙体的层叠，还是视线的框取，都经过精心校准，以塑造光影、隐匿或揭示景致，并模糊建筑与景观的边界。

Moving through the house, one is constantly negotiating thresholds passing from compressed corridors into expansive living areas, from heavy brick-edged walkways into light-filled courts. The architecture becomes atmospheric: shadows elongate across curved concrete surfaces, reflections shimmer in the water bodies, and framed vistas of trees rising within the circular void remind inhabitants of the dialogue between nature and architecture. The relationship of centre and periphery becomes the guiding metaphor of the project the house as sanctum, the outside world as its concentric unfolding. Every gesture, from the layering of walls to the framing of views, is calibrated to shape light, conceal or reveal perspectives, and blur the line between building and landscape.

▼从厚重的砖砌步道走向光影充盈的庭院，from heavy brick-edged walkways into light-filled courts © Avesh Gaur

▼而庭院中升起的植被，lush vegetation rising within the circular void © Avesh Gaur

然而，超越空间的巧思，Sanctum更强调一个根本的理念：建筑必须超越视觉，直抵情感。正是在树荫下的静谧停顿、砖拱廊中脚步的回声、黄昏水面的微光闪烁之中，这座住宅唤醒了更深层次的归属感、亲密感与反思感。它强化了一种信念：建筑不仅关乎墙体与体量的物理组合，更关乎它所激发的情绪与所维系的氛围。以此而言，Sanctum不仅是一所住宅，更是引发思考的催化剂，推动人们重新想象当代印度住宅的可能性。

Yet beyond its spatial ingenuity, The Sanctum underscores a more fundamental idea that architecture must move beyond the visual to engage with the emotional. It is in the quiet pause under a shaded canopy, the echo of footsteps along a brick arcade, or the shimmer of water at dusk that the house awakens deeper feelings of belonging, intimacy, and reflection. This project reinforces the conviction that architecture is not just about the physical arrangement of walls and volumes, but about the emotions it stirs and the atmospheres it sustains. In this way, The Sanctum becomes not only a residence but a catalyst for thought provoking a shift in how we imagine contemporary Indian homes.

▼融合巨石、植被与水景的庭院，the courtyard combines stone, lush plants and water feature © Avesh Gaur

▼融合巨石、植被与水景的庭院，the courtyard combines stone, lush plants and water feature © Avesh Gaur

或许Sanctum最为激进之处，在于它提出了一种全新的“奢华”观：不是过度的装饰与表面的堆砌，而是空间的清晰、材料的诚实与情感的共鸣。在一个住宅常以宏伟或华丽作为价值标杆的国度，这所住宅却选择了克制的建筑表达。它庄重而不张扬，精神而不宗教，深具印度气质却不依赖于复古的拼贴。室内的中世纪现代风格使其与国际设计谱系相连，而厚重的砖与混凝土外壳则牢牢扎根于本土语境，搭建起全球抱负与在地建构之间的桥梁。这样的项目意义不仅在于形式上的创造，更在于其对印度建筑格局潜在的变革力量。通过将氛围置于展示之上、情感置于装饰之上，Sanctum为印度住宅设计指明了新的方向——一种不再追求奇观，而是着眼于真实生活体验的方向。它展示了住宅如何成为思想与感受的庇护所，如何激发反思而非分散注意，如何在不割裂文化记忆的前提下拥抱现代性。Sanctum因而不仅是一座住宅，更是一份宣言：印度的住宅建筑未来不在于熟悉风格的复制，而在于勇于在形式、虚空与材料上进行实验，从而营造出具有永恒共鸣的空间。

Perhaps what makes The Sanctum most radical is that it dares to propose a different kind of luxury not one of excess ornament or decorative indulgence, but of spatial clarity, material honesty, and emotional resonance. In a country where homes often seek validation through their grandeur or stylistic embellishment, this house instead offers an architecture of restraint. It is monumental without being ostentatious, spiritual without being religious, and deeply Indian without relying on pastiche. The mid-century modern sensibility of the interiors ties the project to an international lineage of design sophistication, but the heavy brick-and-concrete shell roots it firmly in its context, bridging global aspirations with local tectonics. The significance of such a project lies not only in its formal inventiveness but in its potential to transform the Indian architectural landscape. By privileging atmosphere over display and emotion over ornament, The Sanctum suggests a new direction for Indian residential design one where architecture is less about spectacle and more about lived experience. It demonstrates how homes can become sanctuaries of thought and feeling, how they can foster reflection rather than distraction, and how they can embody modernity without severing ties to cultural memory. The Sanctum therefore is not just a house; it is an argument for how architecture in India can evolve towards abstraction, towards atmosphere, towards spaces that do not just accommodate life but heighten its awareness. It embodies the idea that the future of Indian residential architecture lies not in the replication of familiar styles, but in the courage to experiment with form, void, and material to produce spaces of timeless resonance.

▼场地平面，site plan © Renesa Architecture Design Interiors Studio

▼立面，elevation © Renesa Architecture Design Interiors Studio

▼剖面，section © Renesa Architecture Design Interiors Studio

Category – Residential Category //2025

Built Up Area – 12000 sq ft.

The Sanctum , Amritsar, Punjab , India.

Photographs – Avesh Gaur.