Responding To A Tropical Climate

The house on the hill overlooking the river has a perfect natural setting with cool evening breeze and a never-ending view all around.

- Nishan & Vivek PP

The idea was to create a shelter in this setting and appreciate the natural ambience, and also minimising the enclosed spaces and prioritising the verandahs and terrace spaces, where one can sit back and relax. The idea of a home itself is subtle, down to earth, minimising the built spaces and cost through methods of unfinished: an early beginning to an aesthetic of the under-constructed.

The house wraps its private, inner and transparent spaces with an enclosure of uneven plastered spaces and exposed granite walls framing the structure into a similarly unfinished roof structure with GI frames and clay tile roofing – raw finished interiors with bare cement flooring enhanced by border bright colour tiles, wooden open joints and finishes that give a rustic and under-constructed feel to the spaces, extending one’s concentration towards the exterior spaces. The textures and grey ceiling create an intimate spatial quality inside.