Custom Residential Architectural Design
We build sanctuaries that breathe, using light and honest materials to craft homes that grow with you over time.
The 'Wildgrass' home in Coonoor, showing an addition with a perforated metal screen. We believe a home can grow like a city, and this project was a chance to intimately re-engage with the original structure and the settling landscape.
The simple, gabled forms of the 'Wildgrass' home, which settle quietly into the Nilgiri hills. The design uses clean lines and a muted color palette to complement, rather than dominate, the natural beauty of the site.
The dining area of the 'House of Stories' in Bangalore, where angled concrete walls and a skylight create a dramatic play of light. The space is designed to feel both monumental and intimate, a place for shared meals and quiet contemplation.
A look at our Delhi residential project, where we renovated and added to a 1977 home. We used a new steel superstructure and a series of skylit courtyards to bring light deep into the floor plan, creating a modern home that honors its past.
Our first built project from 1995, 'Amma's Home'. The design centers around a garden court and a deep verandah, reinterpreting traditional Indian spatial archetypes for contemporary urban family life.
The 'Wedge Home' in Hyderabad, built 23 years ago on an unconventional triangular plot. The design uses a distinctive perforated wall to create privacy and filter light, turning the site's challenges into a unique architectural feature.
A detail of the 'Wildgrass' home, showing the connection between two volumes. The design breaks down the mass of the house into smaller, interconnected parts that respond to the sloping terrain.
The glass and perforated metal addition to the 'Wildgrass' home. This structure acts as a lantern, bringing in soft, filtered light while maintaining a visual connection to the landscape.
An outdoor staircase and cantilevered roof at the 'Wildgrass' home. These elements create sheltered outdoor living spaces that are integrated with the garden, blurring the lines between inside and out.
A close-up of the glass-enclosed bridge connecting two parts of the 'Wildgrass' home. This transparent link allows for movement through the house without losing the sense of being in the landscape.
About Custom Residential Sanctuaries
We often work with dense urban plots where privacy is a primary concern. Rather than closing off a home, we design perforated metal screens and skylit courtyards to filter light and wind, ensuring your private space remains connected to the outside world while keeping the city noise at bay.
The process of building a home is a slow, meditative journey. Our approach is rooted in the belief that a house should not be a rigid box, but a structure that learns to breathe with its surroundings. We prefer honest materials like exposed form-finished concrete, hand-chiseled stone, and wire-cut bricks. These surfaces do not hide the marks of human labor, as they wear them with grace.
Whether we are working on a mountain site in the Nilgiris or a triangular plot in Hyderabad, we prioritize the existing context. We do not flatten sites to make building easier. We work around existing trees, study wind patterns, and carve out courtyards that capture the sun. Our work on projects like the House of Stories shows that luxury is not about finish, but about the quality of light. By integrating deep verandahs, skylights, and sculptural staircases, we ensure that every room has a relationship with the sky or a garden. We handle everything from the initial site energy study to the final construction drawings, ensuring the vision remains intact through the build. This is architecture meant for living, not just looking.
Mathew and Ghosh
Soumitro and Nisha here. We have been watching Bengaluru grow for thirty years and remain fascinated by the stories an old building can tell. We view every home as a collaboration between us, the site, and your own life, seeking beauty in the chaos of our cities.
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