Indoor-Outdoor Living Designs for Bangalore Homes
We believe your home should not feel like a closed box. By using private courtyards, large sliding glass doors, and consistent flooring, we erase the threshold between your living room and the garden to invite nature inside.
Here, a glass skylight over a portion of the ground floor illuminates the space below while providing a walkable glass floor for the terrace above. This connects two levels of the home with light and greenery.
A simple yet effective outdoor space. The combination of a wooden deck and a small lawn creates a neat, functional backyard area, perfect for a quiet morning coffee.
The living room of the Cube House opens onto a patio through large sliding glass doors. This seamless transition extends the living area outwards and fills the interior with natural light.
Another view of the Cube House living room, showing how the indoor space flows into an outdoor seating area, visually connected by the continuity of the wooden design elements.
Large, floor-to-ceiling windows in this living room frame the exterior greenery, making the garden feel like a part of the interior decor. The design ensures the space is always bright and visually expansive.
This informal living area opens onto a balcony, with a glass-shelved display unit that doesn't obstruct the light or the view. The stone wall continues from the inside out, further blurring the boundary.
A similar view of the informal living space, showing how the sliding doors can be fully opened to merge the room with the outdoor terrace, creating one large, airy space.
About this collection
The secret to a seamless transition is not just installing large glass doors, but extending your interior flooring materials and ceiling levels outward to match your outdoor patio. When we use the same stone or wood finish on your balcony or terrace that you have in your living area, the eye does not stop at the threshold, and the space naturally feels larger and more expansive.
Architecture That Breathes
In a city as dense as Bangalore, the most valuable luxury is a connection to the open sky. We approach indoor-outdoor living as a core structural decision, not an afterthought. Our designs for the Cube House and the Twin Courtyard residence demonstrate this through the strategic use of voids and volumes.
Technical Approach
We focus on two main elements to achieve this blur:
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Visual Transparency: We utilize structural glazing and floor-to-ceiling glass doors that slide away completely. This removes the physical barrier between rooms and the outside, allowing air to circulate freely and maximizing natural light.
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Material Continuity: We align the levels of your indoor living space with your outdoor decks or patios. By maintaining a single, uninterrupted floor plane, we reduce the visual clutter that defines indoor from outdoor.
Integrating Greenery
Nature is not just decorative; it is a functioning part of the home. We integrate MS (Mild Steel) skylights with safety grills to bring light into the center of your floor plan, allowing for indoor plants to thrive even in deep urban plots. Whether it is a small balcony vertical garden or a full-scale private courtyard, we design layouts that allow you to supervise your living space from the patio while maintaining a sense of serenity.
ID+AS Architects
We are ID+AS Architects. We believe architecture is a dialogue between built and unbuilt spaces, and we listen to that conversation on every project. Whether it is a compact urban balcony or a villa with a central courtyard, we focus on blending structural integrity with natural light to create homes that actually breathe.
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