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TropiBox Kochi House / TAB/Tropical Architecture Bureau

Pilar Caballero — Sat, 11 Jan 2025 17:00:00 +0000

"The architecture cannot be totally explained but must be experienced." TropiBox Kochi features interconnected levels and open spaces, with pavilions designed to surprise and create a cohesive whole. Careful attention to detail, scale, and proportion enhances the human experience. Inspired by Sri Lankan architect Geoffrey Bawa, TAB has crafted a unique blend of greenery-filled architecture and tropical modernism. The primary challenge was to design a home that provides each inhabitant with their own space while encouraging interaction. The building is organized using a vertical stacking strategy, with gardens and glass walls nestled between two main concrete façades. This design approach improves the microclimate by introducing natural ventilation and daylight into every room while the alternating openings enhance visibility and interaction among family members.

Elance Learning Headquarters / Vili & Vé Architecture

Valeria Silva — Mon, 20 May 2024 20:00:00 +0000

When the CEO of Elance Learning Center, a multidisciplinary tuition center with over 5000 students across the coastal state of Kerala in India, approached the architects to design a headquarters rooted in their ideologies within a limited space of around 3000 sqft, the architects had to take a novel approach to the design while maintaining the core values of the given criteria.

Hassan House / Monsoon Projects

Hana Abdel — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 20:00:00 +0000

In the bustling city of Calicut, where the rhythm of life moves at an unremitting pace, there stands a home, a testament to the harmonious union of disparate elements. A sophisticated urban abode characterized by minimalist aesthetics, it embraces a stripped-down material palette. Guided by sustainable planning principles, it seamlessly melds modern elegance with conscious living.

The Wabi-Sabi House / Aslam Sham Architects

Pilar Caballero — Sat, 23 Sep 2023 19:00:00 +0000

Designing a home for a close friend is indeed a unique and challenging experience, as it blends personal connection with professional creativity. It's akin to pouring your heart and soul into a project because you share a deep understanding of the person's preferences and desires. When Vysakh approached us with his vision for his dream home, it felt as though we were embarking on a shared journey to craft a space that would encapsulate his aspirations and our design philosophy.

The Hidden House / Aslam Sham Architects

Pilar Caballero — Fri, 12 Aug 2022 20:00:00 +0000

The Hidden House. Let these words paint a picture of a secretive abode shielded from plain sight, nothing could be farther from the truth. For this is “a house that does not try to blend in; it wants to stand out from the rest, grab attention and take in those glances from the street,” declare architects Aslam Karadan and Sham Salim of eponymous Kozhikode-based practice Aslam.Sham Architects. “It is unapologetically unique with its form and intends to capture the intrigue of the passers-by—just like the client wanted it to.” The ‘hidden’ part of the moniker, they explain, comes from the home’s disguised scale: a three-level home that creates the illusion of being a smaller, two-Storey structure.

La Vie Residence / SOHO Architects

Bianca Valentina Roșescu — Sat, 30 Apr 2022 21:00:00 +0000

Set amidst a fairly occupied locality, a few kilometers away from the National Highway that connects Kochi and Kozhikode, two coastal cities in the southern state of Kerala, the east-facing site was already sided by houses on its north-south boundaries, which became a deciding factor in the massing design of the residence. The residence was envisioned as three blocks with the majority of openings directed towards the central courtyard, shielded from the front road by a screen wall allowing the breezes to rustle in while establishing the required privacy.

Paroppadi Residence / Magicline Studio

Hana Abdel — Thu, 10 Feb 2022 22:00:00 +0000

"Often a building is only a roof, columns, and floors-the roof dominant, shielding, giving contentment of shelter."_Geoffrey Bawa.

The Wall of Being Residence / Evolving Radical Aesthetics

Hana Abdel — Tue, 28 Sep 2021 01:00:00 +0000

The Wall of Being - The residence stands at a y - junction in a dense residential neighbourhood of Kozhikode, a coastal city in the south Indian state of Kerala, on a linear plot deprived of views to the outside. The client’s personality embraces a modern lifestyle, at the same time are very nostalgic about their ancestral village of the central Malabar region. The process culminated in the idea of making spaces that evoke one’s collective memory of the region, at the same time relying on modern architectural characteristics. Further briefed to a concept of creating a “Modern, Abstract, but relatable aesthetics.

Freedom Square / Deearth Architects

Hana Abdel — Fri, 24 Sep 2021 17:00:00 +0000

The Past: The old beach stage, once stood where the freedom square is now, hosted many historical events and personalities. The beach stage was the most prominent and largest venue for cultural programs and political conventions in the region. The stage though was just a reminiscence of the past with its structure sinking & dilapidating due to aging. Unfortunately, this stretch of space had no landmarks or built space evoking a sense of the historical significance of the place, and hence the freedom square

Reflections House / Thought Parallels

Hana Abdel — Tue, 21 Sep 2021 02:00:00 +0000

As a rising trend, the current pandemic scenario has resulted in a reverse exodus, with big-city dwellers mindfully seeking out off-the-grid addresses that offer them both sterile isolation and connectivity to essential resources. Built-in Kallada Kadavu, approximately 12 kms. away from the main city of Calicut, is Thought Parallel’s latest residential project ‘Reflections,’ executed by architects Nikhil Mohan and Shabna Nikhil.

Buy Me a Coffee Office Space / Artystry

Hana Abdel — Mon, 18 May 2020 20:00:00 +0000

The brief was clear when Mr. Jijo Sunny approached Nahal Ahammed and Anas Mohammed of Artystry to design his office at Hilite business park, Calicut, Kerala, with an aptly named “BUY ME A COFFEE”. Their vision of a stress-free workspace that reflects the young, energetic, and vibrant occupants to increase the Artystry in a much better environment was just one of their brief which was beyond conceptualization. Buy me a coffee is a workspace at Hilite business park for young tech aspirants considering unique architectural fabric in keeping with modern norms.

Lightness of Being / Thought Parallels

Daniel Tapia — Wed, 20 Feb 2019 21:00:00 +0000

It's not what you look at that matters. It's what you see - Thoreau. When architecture attempts to merge two paradoxical forces, there arises a metaphorical meaning to what hasbeen achieved. The concept of 'lightness' generally relates to the physical weightof objects or materials. In the realm of design, it can take a surrealistic stance when used to alter the perceived visual mass and ambience. Through the manipulation of forms, play of materials and control of light & shadow, the concept evolves into a sensory experience.

Kadalas Cafe / Zero Studio

Daniel Tapia — Thu, 10 Jan 2019 23:00:00 +0000

All over the world, food aficionados are having a great time since cuisine these days isn’t exclusive to the region where it belongs to but has become a global concept. Learning from a worldwide chain of branded restaurants, cities and also small towns started to have their own regional versions for specialty eating spaces; bringing to the platter, local as well as foreign cuisine, and at times fusing together different varieties.

Corporate Office for Team Thai / STAPATI

Rayen Sagredo — Sat, 20 Jan 2018 20:00:00 +0000

A linear sloping site facing the southwest, along a busy highway defined the context for this Corporate office in Calicut. The functional areas of the building are deliberately raised up from the ground, leaving the ground floor free as a multifunctional space. Thus the external landscape continues into the building and onto the raised portion of the land on the rear, which is articulated as an informal extension of the office space. This continuous space is resolved as a series of levels which allows the landscape to move in & out and form the spine around which all activities are organized.

Elathur House / PLAYGROUP Studio

Cristobal Rojas — Sun, 29 Jan 2017 20:00:00 +0000

The primary challenge was to retain an existing house on the site and build a complete new structure over it while retaining the basic functionality of the original structure. The new building was designed on a completely distinct set of circular columns which were placed strategically to avoid the existing walls and foundations. The new structure, aligned at an angle, floats over the lower structure. Roof of the existing structure was demolished and the space between the new and old structure was sealed with continuous frameless glass panes, maintaining the individuality of the two structures. The old structure was stripped off its plaster and the original large laterite stones revealed.

Mezban Inverted Topography / Collaborative Architecture

Victoria King — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000

The project is a part of a business hotel which has been redesigned by the firm as a repositioning exercise. The strategy was to create a new identity to the already popular restaurant though interior architecture making it a new destination dining in the city to spur the business of the hotel.