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SOHO - Work + Living / SOHO Architects

Miwa Negoro — Thu, 14 May 2026 02:00:00 +0000

Located in Calicut, Kerala, and set within a preserved 8.5 cent plot, 'SOHO Work + Living' manifests as one half of twin blocks, both designed as an office cum residence typology for two friends, one being the architect himself. The design evolved as a unified architectural statement where two structures, functionally independent and featuring similar programs, are harmonized through complementary massing and a shared visual identity. This approach strikes a fine balance between privacy and interconnectedness, offering a cohesive experience for occupants and observers alike.

The Tiny House / 7th Hue Architecture Collective

Miwa Negoro — Sun, 10 May 2026 21:00:00 +0000

"Within limits, the idea of space is not reduced—it is reimagined." Tiny House emerges as a response to constraints, where compact living is shaped through light, ventilation, and spatial clarity. Inspired by tropical design principles and a minimalist approach, the project focuses on creating an environment that feels open and breathable despite its limited footprint. The design is driven by the idea of transforming inward—using courtyards, layered volumes, and filtered openings to establish a strong connection between built form and nature.

7 Unbuilt Houses Shaped by Site, Climate, and Constraints

Nour Fakharany — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 07:30:00 +0000

Residential architecture continues to offer a productive ground for unbuilt exploration, revealing how architects respond to site, climate, and constraint at the scale of the domestic. In this Unbuilt edition, submitted by the ArchDaily community, the selected projects bring together a range of proposals that reconsider the house not as an isolated object, but as a spatial system shaped by its environment. These works position architecture as a framework that negotiates between ground, material, and inhabitation, often emerging directly from the conditions of the site.

Soil Stories Pavilion / Magicline Studio

Miwa Negoro — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 19:00:00 +0000

Set within a 14-acre family estate on the outskirts of Kozhikode, Soil Stories occupies a 60-cent site within a campus that was already ecologically rich long before architecture entered the frame. The larger landscape contains three kaavus (sacred groves), a wetland system, and dense native tree cover, together generating a distinct microclimate. This living terrain supports diverse native inhabitants, with the potential for many more to establish the site as an active ecological system rather than a neutral backdrop.

Ananda House / Thought Parallels

Miwa Negoro — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 07:00:00 +0000

Madhu and Mandy, a couple based in Dallas, USA, approached thought parallels to design a residence adjacent to their ancestral home in India. They sought a contemporary architectural interpretation of the region's vernacular style. Both of them, being aesthetically astute and well-traveled, ideated a refined vision of what a home should embody. They broke a stereotype of usually cliched project requirements.

MRIYA - the Red House / i2a Architects Studio

Miwa Negoro — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 19:00:00 +0000

Every home carries a story, but Mriya begins with a dream — cherished, nurtured, and ultimately realized. The name itself, meaning "Dream," reflects the essence of this residence: the fulfilment of a long-held aspiration to create a sanctuary deeply rooted in its land and life.

Nirava Ayurveda Holistic Centre / STAPATI

Miwa Negoro — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 04:00:00 +0000

Part of the renowned Krishnendu Ayurveda Hospital, the ~21,000 sq. ft. Nirava Ayurveda Holistic Centre is envisioned as an oasis of healing, rooted in tradition and elevated through thoughtful innovation. Conceived as an immersive wellness retreat, the master plan unfolds in two distinct yet interconnected volumes: a villa block comprising twelve serene guest rooms and a gracefully curved spa block housing therapy suites. Each structure is carefully positioned to preserve and embrace the mature trees that define the site's lush, tropical character, allowing architecture and landscape to exist in quiet harmony.

Vault House / Encasa Archstudio

Pilar Caballero — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 08:00:00 +0000

Vault House is conceived as a contemporary tropical residence that balances raw materiality with warmth, openness, and family-centric living. Designed for a multi-generational family comprising a couple, their daughter, and parents, the house responds to a clear client vision: a home that is unique, user-friendly, and deeply connected to natural light, ventilation, and greenery.

The Invisible City: India's Urban Infrastructure Projects of 2025 That Deserve Attention

Ananya Nayak — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In 2025, India's most consequential design projects unfolded largely out of sight. While public attention gravitated toward museums, cultural landmarks, and visually arresting façades, the architecture that most decisively shaped daily life existed underground, at the city's edges, or inside secured compounds few citizens would ever enter. Sewage networks were rebuilt, flood tunnels bored beneath dense neighborhoods, substations lifted above floodplains, and data centers multiplied across peri-urban landscapes. These were not peripheral works of engineering; they were the spatial systems that allowed Indian cities to remain functional through record heatwaves, erratic monsoons, and accelerating urban growth.

KOODU Weaving a Nest / NO Architects Designers and Social Artists

Miwa Negoro — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 17:00:00 +0000

Koodu, or the Nest, is a budget home designed for a single mother and her two children. The house is located at Eravipuram, Kerala, on the southwest coast of India, along the Arabian Sea. The site lies within a densely packed urban area, where most plots range from 2 to 3 cents in extent. This house is built on a 2-cent plot, with only 1 cent dedicated to the built-up area.

Infinity Edge Residence / TROPICAL TONES

Pilar Caballero — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 19:00:00 +0000

How often are irregularly shaped plots dismissed when buying land? In many towns, the land is subdivided into perfect rectangles for construction, leaving plots with unconventional shapes—sharp angles and awkward dimensions—undesirable and in low demand. The architecture studio Tropical Tones, however, has set an example by tackling this challenge. This Tropical Modern residence in Azhiyur Village in Kozhikode, Kerala, is built on an 8-cent trapezoidal plot within the Coastal Regulations Zone, just 100 metres from the National Highway. The proximity to the sea and the narrow corner of the site are typically considered non-negotiable constraints for homeowners. Yet, this family of a young couple and four kids took a leap of faith.

Kalam by Paddy House / Smaall Architects

Miwa Negoro — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 02:00:00 +0000

For 20 years, this building stood abandoned — a silent reminder of forgotten spaces and wasted potential. Yet every abandoned structure carries hidden stories waiting to be reimagined. A century-old granary, left unused for decades, has now been thoughtfully transformed into a boutique farmhouse through architectural ingenuity and carefully chosen materials. Set against the backdrop of the Western Ghats and nestled between lush paddy fields and a serene pond, Kalam embodies rustic charm and timeless beauty.

Circular by Tradition: India’s Vernacular Building Practices for a Warming World

Ananya Nayak — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Across India's varied geographies, from coastal backwaters to desert fortress cities, architecture evolved with a deep, instinctive connection to climate. These were not isolated craft traditions but complete ecological systems in which material cycles, thermal comfort, and community knowledge were interdependent. As COP30 turns global attention toward the links between heritage and climate resilience, India's vernacular practices appear less as historical artifacts and more as climate technologies refined over centuries.

Efficient Water Management and Collection as Seen in 3 Indian Residential Projects

Hana Abdel — Mon, 26 Jun 2023 07:30:00 +0000

Water scarcity is one of the most stressful situations that one could ever endure. And yet, in India, a country that holds 18% of the total world population with only 4% of its water resources, this is a recurring struggle with notable numbers of Indian households having to manage water scarcity on a daily basis.

“I Am Always Mindful That Construction is a Sin”: Interview with Vinu Daniel of Wallmakers

Vladimir Belogolovsky — Tue, 11 Oct 2022 03:30:00 +0000

Most architects design projects in the comfort of their offices, sitting behind their desks, making decisions by looking at their flatscreens, never visiting a construction site, and managing everything remotely. This attitude may lead to a design of a sleek and even objectively beautiful building. But such a solution can't be anywhere near a genuine response to what any given site may require. How do you even find out? Is it possible to build something new as if it were an extension of what is already there in the most innate, consequential, yet original form? The only way to find out is to start from the site itself, says Vinu Daniel, the founder of Wallmakers, an award-winning architectural practice in Trivandrum, the capital of the southern Indian state of Kerala.

Brick Screen House / HONEYCOMB architects

Hana Abdel — Mon, 16 May 2022 20:00:00 +0000

Brief - The brick screen house is a renovation project envisioned as a synthesis of contextual parameters and user functional requirements. The project promises a better environment of living for the client from the old congested and messy house, which also architecturally enhances the climatic, and contextual potential of the location. The main design intent was to blur the boundaries between the built and the natural elements. This is a south-facing corner plot in a tropical location experiencing long monsoons and hot summers. The project plot has an entry road and large open plots in front, existing houses on the northern and eastern sides, and a side road on the west. The concept is seamlessly blended with the context in a way that it’s a play of multi-directional air movement in the house

Narrow Brick House / Srijit Srinivas Architects

Hana Abdel — Tue, 12 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000

The Clients (a couple working as IT engineers) presented an extremely narrow site in Thiruvanthapuram as part of their design brief. The inherent challenge was in accommodating a generous 117 sq.m. of built-up area on the elongated 283 sq.m. site, which upon excluding mandatory setbacks on the sides, elicits just 4.8 m (or a mere room-width) of working clearance.

The Violet Office / Nestcraft Architecture

Hana Abdel — Tue, 27 Jul 2021 01:00:00 +0000

Design Concept & context - A ‘man cave’ for the architect which manifests his life, his inner likings and amplifies his aura as a person. A space for his team, his family and friends and for the people who want to utilize his expertise. A platform that facilitates the exchange of ideas, learning, gatherings, leisure, work and living. A place that perfectly fits his build/make as a person and an Architect. A casual setup for the team suggests a homely but meditative space to keep maintaining the creative mood. We metaphorize the wholesome objective or intention to find out that unique out-of-the-box element, ideology and philosophy in our design as ‘VIOLET’. Violet-The Architects office.