Open House Exhibition 05 & 06 : What a ride!

Two huge Open House Events have just concluded. Our teams have gone through the deepest, darkest depths of self-doubt, perseverance and eventual transcendence followed by triumph. Two open houses, two cities, and only two-day apart. On display were two very different architectural gems; introverted design versus an open, all-inclusive one. One that was trying to hide the interior from the exterior, the other one trying to blur the lines between its interior spaces from the exterior.

Inside DB Studioss Introverted House.

Open House 05 featured Architect Saifullah Siddiqui from Db Studios. The house that was exhibited was situated in a small street that was part of a neighborhood that had an architectural language about which the less said the better. Saifullah masterfully crafted a simple yet powerful architectural language for the facade, that ran inside throughout the interior of the house. Once inside, the house transformed into a spacious space centered around a courtyard that punctured through and made all three levels visible, connected horizontally by a bridge that ran across the floors. Bold fair-faced concrete plaster flirted with wooden floors; perfect straight grooves showing a level of craftsmanship unheard of. Simple, innovative and brilliantly executed details made a great case for the saying, great things come in small packages.

“Let a tree be a tree and a boulder be a boulder” The Tao of Pooh, Benjamin Hoff.

Open house 06 featured architect Raza Ali Khan from Wasif Ali & Associates. The house on exhibit was the architect`s personal residence. The whole house was conceived as a resort, blurring the lines between the interior spaces and the exterior landscape. Inviting the visitors through a nonchalant facade that used a square steel mesh over a cement plastered wall, a side c-shaped courtyard invited the visitors into a double height space. The house was a patchwork of materials and ideas and gave the impression that the architect was creating a temple for his ideas and materials. Wrought with materials which had layers of narrative overtones, from the salvaged bricks from centuries-old walled city of Lahore to adaptive reuse of old solid wood doors of the decades past, the spaces were wrapped in modern expensive touch points that further enhanced the sensory experience of the space.

Meet Our Event Collaborators

We feel privileged to have conducted the massive feat of dancing around dozens of companies and individuals involved in making the events into a reality. Our teams worked around the clock, combined forces with other teams, our vendors and sponsor, and danced around in unity to ensure these architectural gems were enjoyed by all stakeholders from the construction industry; from architects, material vendors, contractors, service providers and also enthusiasts of great spaces.

We made many new friends along the way whom we intend on keeping for the next round of open houses. Who are we sowing this time? It’s a big surprise! What’s not a surprise, is that the next ones will blow your mind! Thank you for building happiness in the construction industry with us!

Undertaking

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