Repair and Restoration of an Old Residence in Goa The original house sat among rich vegetation in a site that slopes down inward and overlooks paddy fields and a distant water body. The house is estimated to have been constructed in the mid-80s and has a rectilinear plan with a staircase jutting out in a […]
A Contemporary Spatial Exploration on a Narrow Site Located on a site engulfed in lush vegetation, the Orchard House is designed with contextual sensitivity, sitting delicately on a narrow part of the site, which was previously used as a vegetable garden. The simplistic, load-bearing structure assimilates the residence with the vegetation around it, retaining all […]
Community Initiative Spot-Fix in a Public School Benaulim School Transformation was executed through the idea of ‘spot-fix’ by an organisation called ‘The Ugly Indian’. The initiative, funded and initiated by Leena Prakash, brought together citizens from different walks of life and multiple backgrounds to clean, paint and re-organise the outdoor spaces and the […]
Rural Housing Concept Under the PMAY scheme, each unit is entitled to 100 Sq. Meters of land in the villages. The proposal looks at the possibility of creating a set of ‘ingredients‘ and not ‘recipes‘ that will enable the poor to build for themselves. The design looks at five configurations of 100 Sq. M land – […]
Restoration and Refurbishment of a Goan House. After careful documentation of the deteriorating structure, a process of minimal intervention was undertaken. The client wanted the house to act as a workspace for an NGO all the while refraining from changing the basic layout of the old structure. […]
A Tropical House on a Richly Wooded Site in Goa https://studiomatter.in/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/ASSAGOA_DRONE-1.mov Once used as an orchard, the site was found as a wonderful stepped terrain – altered by years of human movement and occupation. The client – proprietor of an acclaimed design consultancy – wanted a small house that can be split into two units (ground and first floor) […]
A House, a Studio and a Workshop with two Private Courtyards Designed on a long and narrow site that opens out to lush paddy fields, the approach is to carve out a mass into inhabitable volumes and spaces. With a program that imagines the ground and the first floors as two independent units. Two courtyards […]
Design of a Learning by Making Campus Designed as a juxtaposition on an existing old house, the Thinkering Campus is a ‘Learning by Making’ space led by Avik Sarkar – an Industrial and Furniture Designer. The site for the campus flanks a village football ground in Nachinola – an idyllic […]
A Courtyard House in the Hills Envisioned as a solid with a carved out central courtyard, the House in Coonoor is located on a sloping site opening out to the hilly landscape. Within a site populated with wild vegetation, the courtyard facilitates a secret garden – capturing a space of delight and […]