About the project
No matter how many years go by, the memories of an ancestral home will always stay with you. This is a story of a very special project that we are working on. It's an ancestral home, between the paddy fields in a small village of Dakshina Kannada. Everyday life in this region of abandoned natural resources and a primarily agrarian population is closely tied to nature and it's worship in myriad ways.
This particular house is designed to be a visual, spatial link between the past, present, and future, becoming a point in the timeline of this place and culture. Apart from the features of an ancestral home, the house is designed to bring the extended families together for a cultural practice popularly known as bootha-kola in this region.
As designers we take immense joy in creating a house that is not just a living space for its residents, but also a backdrop for different cultural art to be performed in.
With this, we come to understand that even in the modern age ruled by technology, cultural activities like Bootha-kola, aata, etc., continue to stand as a grand example of man's longing for an intimate connection with nature, and the architecture over here plays an important role in continuing the story of an existing place.
