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The Dip Pavilion
residential architecture | 2025
The Dip Pavilion
residential architecture | 2025
One linear volume. One continuous ceiling. One clear relationship between garden, pool, and built form.
Set within an existing residential landscape in Ahmedabad, the Dip Pavilion is designed for evening life beside the pool—part lounge, part gym, always in conversation with the garden. The project is organised as a linear, transparent volume held beneath a singular roof plane. Full-height glazing keeps sightlines uninterrupted across the site, while a slender structural system sits beyond the glass—columns placed outside the enclosure to preserve the lightness of the interior and establish a measured rhythm. The roof becomes the project’s primary identity: a thin horizontal plane that extends across the site and then descends to touch the ground, shaping a sheltered entrance. This movement creates a controlled tension between sky and earth without breaking the clarity of the glass volume. From key vantage points in the main residence, the roof reads first—anchoring the pavilion within the larger property.
You see the roof first. Then you realise the entire pavilion is built to make the landscape feel sharper.
Inside, a sixteen-foot-high volume holds two programs without forcing a divide. The lounge is tuned for different scales of occupation—intimate when it’s just a few people, generous when the gathering grows—because proportion and transparency do the heavy lifting. The gym is oriented away from the main house, opening to the rear garden for privacy while staying immersed in greenery. The pavilion extends outward to an open-air seating area on a floating deck beside a curtain waterfall, surrounded by water. That water body continues seamlessly into the swimming pool, making the pool feel less like an amenity and more like a spatial extension of the architecture. Materials reinforce this continuity. Stone flooring runs uninterrupted between inside and outside. Exterior-grade steel defines a central utility volume and key interior elements. Above, the concrete roof—lined with wood on its underside—becomes a continuous ceiling plane that softens the scale and deepens the evening atmosphere. The landscape flows from the main residence to the pavilion, and the pavilion holds its ground without competing for attention. Form, structure, and material work as one system here.
The Dip Pavilion
FACT FILE
location
Ahmedabad
year of completion
2025
Category
architecture
typology
residential
built area (in sq.ft)
8988
photography credits
Ishita Sitwala
notes
consultants
structural
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PMC
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MEP
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HVAC
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contractor
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FACT FILE
category
architecture
location
Ahmedabad
year of completion
Ahmedabad
typology
residential
built area (in sq.ft)
8988
photography credits
Ishita Sitwala
notes
Ishita Sitwala
CONSULTANTS
MEP
-
PMC
-
structural
-
HVAC
-
contractor
-
One linear volume. One continuous ceiling. One clear relationship between garden, pool, and built form.
Set within an existing residential landscape in Ahmedabad, the Dip Pavilion is designed for evening life beside the pool—part lounge, part gym, always in conversation with the garden. The project is organised as a linear, transparent volume held beneath a singular roof plane. Full-height glazing keeps sightlines uninterrupted across the site, while a slender structural system sits beyond the glass—columns placed outside the enclosure to preserve the lightness of the interior and establish a measured rhythm. The roof becomes the project’s primary identity: a thin horizontal plane that extends across the site and then descends to touch the ground, shaping a sheltered entrance. This movement creates a controlled tension between sky and earth without breaking the clarity of the glass volume. From key vantage points in the main residence, the roof reads first—anchoring the pavilion within the larger property.
You see the roof first. Then you realise the entire pavilion is built to make the landscape feel sharper.
Inside, a sixteen-foot-high volume holds two programs without forcing a divide. The lounge is tuned for different scales of occupation—intimate when it’s just a few people, generous when the gathering grows—because proportion and transparency do the heavy lifting. The gym is oriented away from the main house, opening to the rear garden for privacy while staying immersed in greenery. The pavilion extends outward to an open-air seating area on a floating deck beside a curtain waterfall, surrounded by water. That water body continues seamlessly into the swimming pool, making the pool feel less like an amenity and more like a spatial extension of the architecture. Materials reinforce this continuity. Stone flooring runs uninterrupted between inside and outside. Exterior-grade steel defines a central utility volume and key interior elements. Above, the concrete roof—lined with wood on its underside—becomes a continuous ceiling plane that softens the scale and deepens the evening atmosphere. The landscape flows from the main residence to the pavilion, and the pavilion holds its ground without competing for attention. Form, structure, and material work as one system here.