Brief
The planning study needed to preserve long views while giving everyday gathering spaces enough shade, storage, and privacy to work throughout the day.
Terrace Rooms uses the slope and view as working constraints, arranging rooms so family life can move between shaded interiors and open-air edges.
- Type
- Residential Planning
- Location
- Pokhara
- Year
- 2023
- Status
- Planning study
Case notes
The case study is organized around intent, constraint, and the spatial decisions that make the project useful.
Context
The site invites outward views, but exposure and heat gain needed a more careful sequence than a fully open terrace edge.
Strategy
- Layer terraces as outdoor rooms rather than leftover edges.
- Pull shared rooms toward view corridors while keeping service zones compact.
- Use shaded thresholds to make exterior movement comfortable.
Materials
Mineral floors, timber shade elements, pale walls, and clay-toned exterior accents keep the terrace language simple and durable.
Gallery
Rooms in sequence.
Large views are paired with short captions so the page reads as a spatial walk-through, not a grid of thumbnails.
Specifications
A compact record of scope, role, and the spatial concerns that shaped the work.
- Scope
- Residential planning study
- Primary move
- Layered terrace rooms
- Focus
- Views, shade, gathering
- Role
- Planning, sequence, exterior room study
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