Architecture &
Interior Design
Selected Work
Eleven houses, eleven different problems
Every plot in and around Chennai comes with its own set of constraints — a monsoon drain, a party wall, a sea breeze worth designing around. These are a few of the ones we’ve worked through.
The Adyar Riverside House
The plot sat low, a stone's throw from the river, and every monsoon the previous house on it had taken on water at the threshold. We raised the plinth well above the flood line and pulled the living spaces around a small internal courtyard, so the family gets cross-ventilation on ordinary days and a dry floor on the bad ones.
The ECR Weekend House
A second home meant to face the sea, on a coast that corrodes anything metal within a couple of seasons. We went with laterite and weathered teak instead of steel trim, and pulled the deep overhangs out far enough that the afternoon glare off the water never actually reaches the glass.
Injambakkam Beach Retreat
Right on the coast south of the city, where the sand shifts more than the client expected and the monsoon comes in almost sideways. We lifted the house onto a plinth well clear of storm surge, angled the roofline to shed wind-driven rain rather than fight it, and planted the ground floor in salt-tolerant vetiver so the landscaping survives the season instead of washing away with it.
A Courtyard for Three Generations
Grandparents, parents, and two kids, all wanting to live together and not on top of each other — on a plot barely wide enough for a corridor. The fix was an old one: a central courtyard, with each generation's rooms opening onto it instead of a shared hallway. Everyone gets daylight, and nobody has to walk through someone else's room to get to their own.
The OMR Tech Loft
A software engineer working from home, on a stretch of OMR that never really goes quiet. The brief was simple — a study that didn't feel like it was still at the office, and traffic noise that stayed outside. We buried the study a half-level down from the living floor and oriented its one window north, for light without the racket.
Anna Nagar Infill House
Squeezed between two existing houses with barely a gap on either side, this plot had no side windows to work with at all. We built the light in from above instead — a double-height living room under a skylight, with the bedrooms wrapped around it, so the middle of the house is often the brightest room in it.
Sholinganallur Compact Home
Nine hundred square feet, tight setback rules on every side, and a young family that still wanted a proper living room and a study. We built up instead of out, and cut a light well through the middle of the plan so the ground floor doesn't feel like it's borrowing daylight from the street.
Reviving a Chettinad Courtyard
A hundred-year-old Chettinad house, inherited by a family that wanted to actually live in it again, not just visit for weddings. Termites had gone through the ground-floor teak, and every monsoon found a new place to leak. We replaced what couldn't be saved with matched timber, re-laid the roof from underneath so the original tiles never had to come off, and left the courtyard exactly as it was — it was the one thing that didn't need fixing.
A Farmhouse Near Thiruporur
A family wanted a weekend retreat on their working farmland outside the city, but not a house that looked out of place next to the fields. We built it low, with a wide verandah wrapping three sides and local brick left exposed rather than plastered over — it reads more like a working farm building than a holiday home, which was exactly the point.
The Besant Nagar Bungalow
Close enough to the beach that the client could hear the surf from the terrace — and close enough that everything metal on the old house had rusted through. We chose corrosion-resistant fittings throughout and planned the room layout around the sea breeze, so the house stays comfortable through most of the year without leaning on the air conditioning.
T Nagar Shop-cum-Residence
A textile shop on the ground floor, and the owner's family living above it, on one of the busiest retail streets in the city. The old layout meant customers, staff, and family all shared one staircase. We gave the residence its own separate entrance around the side and insulated the floor between the two, so shop noise stops at the ceiling instead of carrying upstairs.
What we look for
Every plot argues with you.Setbacks and drains,a neighbour’s wall,the direction the wind arrives from.
A brief that ignores any of it produces a house that fights its own site for the next thirty years. The drawings we hand over are that argument, settled.
Where we work
Chennai, and the coast either side of it
Most of what we build sits within a couple of hours of the city — narrow urban infills in Mylapore and T Nagar, weekend houses down the ECR, farmland further inland past Thiruporur.
They are not the same problem wearing different clothes. A plot hemmed in on three sides needs light brought down from above; a plot facing the sea needs everything metal reconsidered before a single drawing starts.