Study 01

Riverside Apartment

Type: 3BHK apartment
Location: Concept location · Kolkata
Focus: Shared living / adaptable family rhythms
Status: Independent design study

Open-plan apartment living room with warm timber details and city views — The living room sits within the continuous shared zone, with the balcony extending its visual depth.

Project thesis

Space is held together by the relationships between rooms.

A spatial study for a growing family, where kitchen, dining and living remain in conversation through the day.

This independent concept imagines a first apartment for a growing family: three bedrooms, changing routines, and a need for shared life to remain visible without every room becoming public.

Spatial strategy

A conceptual reading of movement, adjacency and pause.

The proposal treats the main rooms as a continuous field rather than a sequence of isolated destinations. Sightlines carry between cooking, eating and resting; quieter rooms sit beyond that shared register.

SharedThresholdPrivateConcept diagram · not to scale

Spatial sequence

Apartment entry threshold opening toward a bright living room and balcony — The entry is treated as orientation rather than a separate foyer, opening a long sightline toward the shared living zone.

Kitchen, dining and living connected in one apartment interior — Kitchen, dining and living are read as one continuous family field rather than three isolated rooms.

Apartment dining area connected to the kitchen and living room — Dining holds its own rhythm while remaining visually connected to cooking, gathering and the balcony edge.

Apartment corridor with storage, work edge and views toward bedrooms — The private corridor becomes a working threshold, combining storage, a small work edge and the transition toward bedrooms.

Calm apartment bedroom with layered neutral textiles and timber details — A quieter material register marks the move into rest, privacy and adaptable domestic routines.

Material and daily life

Atmosphere follows use, light and touch.

Warm timber, muted stone tones and tactile textiles are used as an atmosphere of durability rather than as product specification.

The study is about ordinary overlap: someone cooking while another works nearby, a meal extending into the living room, and rooms that can absorb family life without becoming over-designed.

Kitchen, dining and living are considered as one connected family zone, allowing activity to be shared without prescribing a single way to use the room.
Storage is treated as part of the architecture of daily life: present, durable and able to change as a child's room changes role.
The transition from the open living area to the bedroom is deliberately quieter, giving the home a readable shift from collective to private time.

Next spatial study: The Ballygunge Bungalow