It is such a joy to see our project House with Three Pavilions find beautiful space in print and on the cover of Livingetc Magazine’s June 2022 issue. Aptly titled - ‘A Home with A Verandah’, the article draws attention to our countryside Goan house’s tangible connection to nature. It throws light on our tropical modern design approach and celebrates our efforts to create seamless indoor-outdoor spaces that allow our clients to take everyday life outdoors.

Read the published story here.

If you are considering buying a house in Goa, read our blogpost: What to Look For While Buying A House in Goa

To know more about our design process, take a look at: Designing A House in Goa

Utsav House by Studio Mumbai is a sanctuary of serenity. This elemental yet contemporary house in Alibag by architect Bijoy Jain sensitively makes room for intimate interactions with the surrounding greenery as it effortlessly bridges the indoor with the outdoor. The picturesque scenes and the connections to the tropical context resonate deeply with our values, the natural roots we turn to while designing and building houses in Goa. Built with locally available material and around numerous indigenous trees, Utsav House achieves poetic spaces that have a rustic simplicity without compromising on any of our modern creature comforts. Throughout, the focus is on intentional building and living, through architecture that takes cues respectfully from the terrain and landscapes around.

Images courtesy Archdaily and The New York Times Style Magazine

Visit our previous blogpost on Utsav House here.

Learn more about Bijoy Jain’s Kapadia House, that is now a popular AirBnB here.

We have recently started work on a small house for a lovely young family in Talpona village in Goa. The focus will be on indoor-outdoor living and creating opportunities to connect with nature. The project site is contoured and verdant, with lush trees meeting the eye every side we turn. Our vision for the project is to bring land and life together, through timeless contemporary-vernacular architecture. As we explore the relationships between space and site, we ask ourselves repeatedly,

What are the views that we can frame? How can we create open, continuous and connected spaces? How much light and breeze comes through? How can we create pockets around different natural clusters? How will each space change with time to allow for multiple experiences?

Part 2 in ‘Designing a Home in Goa’ Series.

In my mind, the main reason for people from cities yearning for a house in Goa and the resort-style lifestyle it offers is to reconnect with nature, to be outdoors and breath the fresh air; to observe the subtleties of light during the day, changing of seasons, the evening breeze from the sea and the smell of rain; all the finer things in life that make us wannabe poets and bards.

A house in Goa hence must be designed to allow for outdoor living, where most of one’s daily activities can be carried out in verandahs. Verandahs are spectacular spaces that transition between the indoor and outdoor. We absolutely love incorporating verandahs in our houses in Goa. When verandahs wrap around rooms, they also offer weather protection to the openings in the rooms. When verandahs are planned in different parts of the house, they become spaces to enjoy at different times of the day and in different seasons. Deep long verandahs are the perfect venue for morning yoga practice, lazy afternoons, and cocktails and conversations with friends in the evenings.

Verandahs at Nivim. Photography by Bharath Ramamrutham.

Verandah at Navovado. Photography by Sanjeet Wahi.

This is the second post on our series on ‘Design house in Goa’. In the first part of the series, we spoke about designing spaces where the indoor and the outdoor blend seamlessly to offer a sublime living experience.

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