Mori Sakshiba Pravinsinh

AR2016

Paraga is a guest house designed within the Gujarat United School of Theology campus in Ahmedabad. It serves as a resting and reflective space for diverse guests — students, lecturers, monks, and artists — each carrying different rhythms, expectations, and ways of being. The design rises from stone to steel, with each level expressing a different spatial emotion. Stone anchors the meditation spaces in stillness, brick supports grounded living and shared functions, wood brings warmth to the tree-level study, and steel opens the topmost rooms to sky and light. The architecture becomes a vertical journey — from gravity to openness. A key design strategy is the use of mid-landings that expand into shared spaces, allowing overlap between movement and pause. These landings host the lounge, pantry, and study — encouraging both solitude and community. Material, structure, and light are used intentionally to reflect program and emotion. This project explores layering, sequencing, and atmosphere within a compact footprint — creating not just a place to stay, but a place to arrive, slow down, and reconnect.