The Quiet Infinite
Location: Aalloa hills, Gandhinagar
Area: 39,000 sq.ft.
Architect: Sachin Gandhi and associates
Designed as a personal retreat for an architect, this second home landscape becomes an exploration of space, proportion, and pause. The site is organized around a central lawn — a calm, open datum that anchors the composition and allows the built form to breathe. Around it, pathways of varied textures trace the edges of the plot, guiding movement through a carefully choreographed sequence of experiences. Freestanding walls act as spatial frames, capturing views, filtering light, and creating moments of anticipation.
The landscape for the house is designed by making linear walls, that frame the landscape elements and a pathway meandering or linear, that encapsulates the whole.
The pathway acts as a connecting design element from entrance to backyard , lawn, pause points and back to square zero. Pause points in between cater to different functional aspects along with changes in materials, textures and levels as the site slopes back.
