A Crossing Of Boundaries

Design firm The Crossboundaries recreates a New York style home in the heart of Vadodara city.

- Priyanka Menon

Design may be considered good when your eyes not only light up on experiencing it but stay lit much after. Home Review takes you on a journey to Vadodara, where The Crossboundaries’ newest project aptly titled Awakening, by the pool invokes a similar response.

Spearheaded by Harsh Boghani, The Crossboundaries is a design firm that believes in exploring beyond established paradigms by seeking inspiration from practices across the world. The Crossboundaries principally takes up varied challenges in order to recreate contemporary spaces and breathe life into new designs and forms.

The Vadodara-based project - Awakening, by the pool - is a 3200 sq ft property owned by a young couple in their early 30’s. The brief stated the couple’s need to have a ‘New York style exposed design’ home, which the couple, their child and their dog would occupy. “With a sustainable design approach, we worked with exposed brick-work and polished concrete flooring,” explains Harsh.

While integrating all these elements into a language that augments the natural quality of each material, the final outcome was that of a residence that has a natural and earthy feel to it. The exposed brick walls that envelope the entire space from the inside, along with wooden furniture that stays true to its form with veins and textures, and the dashes of greens and blues of the pool that surround the space, make the living experience rather singular and at the same time, ever-changing - depending on the time of the day and the part of the house one finds oneself in.