庭院纪事丨印度班加罗尔丨4Brick Studio

庭院纪事：围绕工艺、庭院与被收集的记忆而设计，这座由4Brick Studio打造的住宅，将记忆锚定于恒久的优雅之中。

The Courtyard Chronicles : Designed around Craft, Courtyards, and Collected Memories, This Home by 4Brick Studio Anchors Memory in Enduring Grace.

▼项目概览，overview of the project © Ekansh Goel

▼建筑外观，building appearance © Ekansh Goel

在班加罗尔的边缘，这座面积约7800平方英尺的住宅由4Brick Studio创始人及主持建筑师Vandana Taluru设计，是一处兼具精神与艺术栖居意义的庇护之所。业主为医生，希望拥有一个能够自我修复、并容纳其多年收藏珍品的空间。住宅植根于葱郁绿意之中，一侧面向高尔夫球场，整体以石材与石灰抹灰建造，并融入古董陈设。宽敞的中央庭院引入充沛的自然光与通风，使光与空气充盈其间。以健康福祉为首要设计意图，建筑以砂岩包覆，呈现出兼具力量与优雅的庇护形态，并温和地回应材料与工艺的持久性。

At Bangalore’s edge, this 7800 sqft house by Vandana Taluru, founder and principal architect at 4Brick Studio, is a refuge for spirit and art alike. The homeowners, doctors by profession, wanted a space to revitalise themselves and to house the many treasures they’d collected over time. Anchored in lush greenery and opening out to a golf course on one side, the home is crafted in stone and lime plaster and enriched with antiques. The house is awash in natural light and ventilation flooding through an expansive central courtyard. With well-being as the chief design intent, the building is a sanctuary of strength and grace dressed in sandstone, nodding gently to the endurance of craft and material.

▼入口，entrance © Ekansh Goel

▼入口坡道，entrance ramp © Ekansh Goel

▼室内门厅，Interior lobby © Ekansh Goel

一次在斋浦尔的偶然绕行带来了一次重要的发现。在寻找古董的过程中，Vandana与业主偶然来到一处位于瓜廖尔铸币厂的采石场，那里堆放着被遗弃的石板。她注意到一块“有缺陷”的石材，其色泽纹理的差异使其在采石场中被弃置。然而正是这种不完美赋予其独特的性格，为项目带来一种不可复制的精神气质。最终，这些被“拯救”的石材取代了原本对器物的选择，被直接采用且未经处理，每一块石板均由手工敲凿，包裹出真实而诚实的建筑外表皮。

A serendipitous detour in Jaipur led to a profound discovery. While on a search for antiques, Vandana and her clients stumbled upon a Gwalior Mint quarry, where discarded slabs lay cast aside. Vandana’s eye caught the grains of an “imperfect” stone’s colour variation, which had caused it to be disregarded at the quarry yard. The stone had a distinct character that gave the project an irreplicable spirit. Chosen over artefacts, the rescued stone was left untreated, each slab hand-chipped, wrapping the exterior in a skin of honest material.

▼客厅，living room © Ekansh Goel

▼客厅细部，living room details © Ekansh Goel

在室内，器物与古董并未被作为静态展品加以陈列，而是作为共生的空间要素融入其中，强化空间氛围与意图。入口处，两只拥有50年历史的陶罐以雕塑般的姿态界定到达的瞬间，其作为粮仓的过往为门槛注入了静谧而厚重的记忆感。门厅中，一尊高约5英尺的湿婆舞王像（Nataraja）嵌置于墙体的内凹空间之中，使雕像融入建筑表皮。这种嵌入方式使物件转化为空间装置，在墙面中形成节奏，标记空间转换，并调节尺度关系。

Inside, the artefacts and antiques are not curated as static showpieces but are integrated as symbiotic companions, heightening atmosphere and spatial intent. At the entrance, two 50-year-old earthen pots frame the arrival with sculptural presence, their granary past lending the threshold a quiet weight of memory. The foyer is anchored by a 5-foot-tall Nataraja, mounted in a scooped recess in the wall, weaving the statue into the architectural skin. This embedding of objects transforms them into spatial devices, punctuating walls, marking transitions, and mediating scale.

▼卧室，bed room © Ekansh Goel

在整个室内空间中，器物与建筑之间形成了一种互为回应的关系。在刻意不设置电视的起居空间中，一段独立前时期的木制战车残件与风化的木质印刷版激活了墙面，为空间叠加质感与叙事。这些物件缓和了石材与石灰抹灰的质朴感，在原始材料性与文化共鸣之间取得平衡，使每一个房间都发展为历史与设计交融的沉浸式环境。在主卧中，一只已有200年历史的木箱敞开陈设，令人联想到19世纪的拉合尔。这种源于日常生活的文化遗产体验，使物件不仅被观看，更被感知，并融入居住的节奏与日常生活之中。

Across the interiors, the dialogue between artefact and architecture is one of reciprocity. In living rooms deliberately free of televisions, fragments of a pre-independence wood chariot and weathered wooden printing blocks animate the walls, layering surfaces with texture and narrative. These objects temper the austerity of stone and lime plaster, balancing raw materiality with cultural resonance, and allowing each room to evolve as an immersive environment where history and design coalesce. A 200-year-old wooden chest lies open in the master bedroom, reminiscent of 19th-century Lahore. Such intimacy of lived heritage where objects are felt, not just seen, and are woven into the home’s rhythm and daily life.

▼厨房，kitchen © Ekansh Goel

中央的空间空隙构成了住宅的“生命通道”，承载采光、通风、流线与空间整体性的组织。首层空间围绕庭院展开，主要起居空间、餐厅与开放式厨房环绕其周边，而正式会客空间与门厅则作为过渡界面，守护更为私密的功能。自地面向上延展的双层通高中庭成为连接整体的核心力量。上层设有两间卧室、一处盆景露台花园以及一个向内眺望的阶梯式小型剧场，其层层递进的座席最终形成一面墙体，为一层空间提供生动的绿色背景。呼应外部立面，庭院墙体同样覆以手工劈裂的石英砂岩，其细微的高差变化增加了层次与肌理。俯瞰这一切的是一幅来自坦贾武尔的传统绘画，自上方廊道中静静守望，将住宅锚定于文化传承之中。

The central void channels the home’s vitals, light, ventilation, circulation, and spatial coherence. The ground floor unfolds around the courtyard, with the main living room, dining area, and open kitchen embracing it, while the formal living and foyer act as thresholds guarding intimate functions. Rising from the ground up, the two-storey puncture becomes a binding force. The upper floor holds two bedrooms, a bonsai terrace garden, and an amphitheatre that peeks inward. Its stepped seating culminating as a wall creates a living green backdrop for those on the ground floor. Echoing the exterior, the courtyard walls are clad in hand-slit quartz sandstone, their subtle shifts in levels adding depth and texture. Overlooking it all, a venerable Thanjavur painting presides from the gallery above, its watchful gaze grounding the home in heritage.

▼庭院，courtyard © Ekansh Goel

▼庭院鸟瞰，aerial view of the courtyard © Ekansh Goel

建筑不仅通过自然通风“呼吸”，也通过其简洁而持久的设计所散发的宁静气质而生动存在。克制而精致的室内为空间叙事提供了展开的画布。艺术、石材与建筑在此交汇，形成一种层叠而内敛的存在，低调却意味深长。这是一处材料真实与时间气质相遇的居所，在静谧中孕育出属于自身的诗意。沐浴在日光之中，被绿意环绕，散布其间的珍藏之物，共同构成了这座砂岩住宅关于质感、时间与心灵栖居的深刻印记。

The building breathes not just through its natural ventilation, but also through the calm it emanates from a design both simple and enduring. Its refined interiors become a canvas for stories to unfold. Art, stone, and architecture converge to form a layered presence, unassuming yet deeply rewarding. This is a home where material honesty meets timeless character, where stillness finds its own quiet poetry. Drenched in daylight, encircled by verdure, and scattered with treasures, the Sandstone home endures as an imprint of texture, time, and soulful living.

▼建筑与绿植，building and plant © Ekansh Goel

Fact File

Location: Bidadi, Bangalore

Typology and Square Footage: Residential, Courtyard house, 7800 sqft

Architecture Design Firm: 4Brick Studio

Architect and Interior Designer – Vandana Taluru

Landscape: 3FoldDesign

Photography Credit: Ekansh Goel