The Anatomy of a Delhi Doctor’s House.
A doctor’s house is never without a clinic up front. The house clinic is a warmer, more hospitable and kinder place to diagnose most of our worries. Sometimes when things get very tough, there’s a homemade — warm cup of tea around the corner.
This is a second generation doctor’s home in Nizammudim East. The father built a small clinic in the house and his kind heart chose the room that opens to the garden to see his patients.
The daughter who sits in her father’s clinic has expanded the practice to offer more comfort to the patients with a small testing facility.
The family is rearing their third generation who is also studying medicine. This home has been a haven for long, for many and yet never felt the need to change.
But how long can a home that’s always full hold the weight of swift modernisation?
This house is still in its original format in all its being. Very little has been reclaimed to make space for more and when reclaimed it has been to offer a safer haven to a growing family. Like the sun roof in the ground floor living room, originally an open angan with two floors above it.
Another living room holds within it the most precious object of the 90s.
A box TV.
This house was built to hold a big family, with independent floors accessed through a 70s terrazzo stairwell with a minimalist deco pattern. The railings had an indigenous design in it. Most family members found a cozy spot to spend their lives in, with the comfort of being independent yet being together.
Bless such homes that hold within them@the good old Indian practice of a doctor’s clinic.
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