Farmhouses designed for the Western Ghats

Deep in the canopy, warm inside.

Warm, secluded, modern, timeless.

Three linked volumes sit on a granite terrace cut into the coffee: a bedroom pavilion in charred timber, a low glazed living room, and a stone pavilion with a fireplace. Deep roof overhangs shelter the glass from sun and monsoon.

• Charred timber cladding and natural granite
• Gently sloping roofs with deep overhangs
• Floor-to-ceiling glass, warm interiors
• Decks that step out over the planting
• Coffee planted up to the terrace walls
• Tall shade trees kept around the house

The pool is shown as part of the concept, not as a promised amenity.

Rooms around an open sky.

Heritage, permanence, understated grandeur.

A modern reading of Malnad houses: four pavilions under clay-tile roofs around an open courtyard, joined by a verandah ring on timber posts, with a deeper outer verandah facing the west lawn.

• Sloping clay-tile roofs
• An open courtyard with a rain basin
• Verandahs under a second, lower eave
• Laterite plinth, lime-plaster walls
• Dark teak posts and screens
• Red-oxide verandah floors

A glass room under a deep roof.

Architectural, serene, exclusive.

A single glass pavilion for living sits under a floating planted roof. A timber-clad bedroom wing reaches towards the view, and a small garden study is reached by a covered walk.

• Panoramic glazing on two sides
• Planted roof with a teak soffit
• Granite base, teak-clad upper floor
• Layered terraces down to the lawn
• Slender steel posts, no heavy columns
• A garden study for work or reading