Concrete Home/Aquarium in India

Just outside Almadabad India, this house was built on a plot of farmland for an aquarium shop owner. It functions as a place to breed fish as well as to serve as a weekend retreat.

It was built using thin concrete walls with standard concrete. One of its most unique features is its pulley-like system of metal shutters. The fish tanks inside the building are enclosed by glass windows. On the opposite side of the tanks in the long corridor of space, the walls open to a garden area. The top hung metal shutters extend at eye level the entire length of the walls. The shutters are held by handmade concrete baubles. The counterweights swing in the wind when the window are partially open. They dip into a lily padded pool when the windows are fully open.

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