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BHATT RESIDENCE, VADODARA, GUJARAT
The basic perception towards any ‘Green Design’ is that, it is the design which uses ‘all resources optimally’. The
emphasis here is on being optimal and appropriate. Now, ‘optimal’ designs are the ones which are ‘contextual’ in real
sense. Context can be understood and expressed in terms of ‘local architectural grammar, local climate and local
lifestyle’. So their manifestation to suit contemporary lifestyle will result in a design which can be nothing but ‘green’
(and that has been attempted by the designers in the mentioned project). It is the key understanding of designers that
‘sustainability is contextual’ and so any design which is ‘contextual’ shall essentially be ‘optimal’ and so forth a ‘green
design’.
