The brief was a home for three generations that would stay cool through the Kerala summer without air-conditioning. We answered with a courtyard plan that pulls breeze through every room and a roof of filler-slab terracotta that holds the heat at bay.
Walls are compressed earth blocks pressed on site, left exposed inside and out, so the house wears the colour of the ground it sits on. Rainwater from the courtyard recharges a well that carries the household through the dry months.
No mechanical A/C
Cooling
Site-pressed earth blocks
Walls
~40% below an RCC equivalent
Embodied energy
Real site photography will replace these. For now, each frame is a warm reference of the materials and the land this project grows from, never passed off as the building itself.
Tell us about your land and the life you picture on it. We start where every project starts, with the ground itself.