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Creating intimacy in a home takes some planning

A decade ago, Delhi-based Anagram Architects fashioned a house they called Kindred House. It was, says the practice’s principal and co-founder, architect Madhav Raman, a “halfway home”, something in between a nuclear family unit and a joint family one, an innovative response to a new way of living for the Indian family. That’s very different from the joint family home of our imaginations, a vast common space centred perhaps by a sweeping staircase where all the drama takes place—my mind is of course cross-referencing Ekta Kapoor TV serials here. It is the type of household where even members of a single family unit function like separates, with adult children and parents living parallel lives within a single space. Of course, it enables some degree of independence within the larger family unit but when there’s so much self-reliance, the home turns into a parking spot for each person—each one sitting adjacently.

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