VIP Guest House

As a VIP guest house, the building has to have a cozy ambiance as well as the capacity to accommodate a large crowd.

VIP Guest House in Devganga Jagrati Foundation is a non-government guest house that accommodates VIPs, VVIP officials, ministers, and a large number of visitors. Though the Circuit house is primarily a guest house, it also acts as a node for political meetings, government authorities’ discussions, and conferences. Guest houses mainly function as official destinations to carry out various official government activities and hence it automatically reduces the scope for leisure activities in this building.

As a VIP guest house, the building has to have a cozy ambiance as well as the capacity to accommodate a large crowd. The support facilities are also very essential to hotel standards. The occupancy in this building can vary largely. With VVIP coming into the premises; occupancy can reach up to 100% also.

Even today, there are hardly any high-standard rest-house facilities available for government officials. The existing facilities are designed with poor planning, resulting in a lack of daylight and natural ventilation, often with chaotic extensions of the building and hence consuming very high energy.

Our focus here is to design a climate-responsive building with passive strategies for thermal and visual comfort along with innovative active strategies to achieve energy-efficient green buildings. The planning is derived from vernacular architecture – The shaded courtyard, transition spaces like passages and terraces, and jalis in form of louvers carry vernacular ethos in the highly contemporary architectural style of this building.

Hence, the climate, the site, and time are basic parameters of design for this project leading to the contemporary vernacular architectural style.