‘For Us & Our 4 Dogs’: Peek Inside a Couple’s Dream Home That Exudes Sustainability |
Originally reported and written in January 2023, this story has been republished as part of our archival content.
In August 2021, Amritha and Harshit were all set to tie the knot. The couple also wanted to start this new chapter of their lives in a home of their own.
Amritha (24), a real estate professional, was sure that she wanted a home that would be “sustainable in every respect”. It was with this simple ask that she reached out to architect Ammaar Aziz Chowdry of ED Architecture — a sustainable architecture wing of Eskay Design, established in 1988.
“Sustainability has been a part of my personal life as well, not just my professional. I was taught to care for nature right from childhood. Sundays were spent cleaning the beach, as we lived a few minutes away from the sea. I always knew my dream home needed to reflect the values that I was brought up with,” she says.
Ammaar was more than happy to get started on the project that he describes to The Better India as “one of the fastest projects to complete”. It took them just four months, from September 2021 to January 2022, to complete the 4,000 sq ft house, which the couple named 'The Gully Home'.
Situated in Chennai’s Thiruvanmiyur, it is a monument of several intertwined dreams — the manifestation of the couple’s vision of their dream home, the place that........