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Interior Landscape

The House That Rains Light is a biophilic home in Kerala, India designed for a family who wanted a non-conventional house with character. The open floor plan incorporates natural light and greenery through skylights and landscape pockets. Bright colors were used throughout the interior spaces to reflect the family's simple yet colorful lifestyle. Strategic windows and vertical skylights provide cross ventilation and control indoor temperatures. The large green walls and terrace garden maximize the small site area.

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Interior Landscape

The House That Rains Light is a biophilic home in Kerala, India designed for a family who wanted a non-conventional house with character. The open floor plan incorporates natural light and greenery through skylights and landscape pockets. Bright colors were used throughout the interior spaces to reflect the family's simple yet colorful lifestyle. Strategic windows and vertical skylights provide cross ventilation and control indoor temperatures. The large green walls and terrace garden maximize the small site area.

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HOUSE THAT RAINS LIGHT

HOUSE THAT RAINS LIGHT • The design also seeks to reflect the lifestyle of the family.
• “We found them to be simple folks. The house was designed for their humble
location: Thevakkal, Kerala, India yet colourful life to unfold. The burst of colours throughout the interiors and the
client: Manju n Jose, Dijo Jose & family candid photographs used for the wall art reflect the same,”(by architect.)
site: 209.87 sqm (5.18 ct)
built up area: 274 sqm (2,950 sqf)
completion: year 2020

• Client wanted a house that broke free from conventions, displaying a


sense of individuality and character in the spaces that enveloped them,
without being a burden on their simple ways of living. 
• They also hoped the building would transcend the small footprint on site
and become a multi spatial/sensory experience for their kids to grow
up in. 
• the experiential quality of the interiors through volumetric variations
and by weaving in natural light and greenery, as integral components of
the design narrative
• The front door of this biophilic house
opens into a spread-out volume that
includes clearly defined spaces such as the
living, dining, kitchen, a bedroom that can
be closed when necessary and several
landscape pockets in between them lit by
a series of skylights from above.
Bedrooms
The bedroom on the ground floor, diffuse with a
tranquil aura, opens up to greenery on two sides
while soothing shades of blue seep into the bedroom
furnishings and the flooring.
Sliding doors have been provided so that the
bedroom can be closed off whenever required.
The staircase leads up to the family room on the first
floor which can be furnished in the future as desired.
Adjoining staircase , to the right, is a balcony which looks out
onto the front road.
Two bedrooms have been positioned at the other end and these
overlook the skylit court.
A radiant palette of yellow dominates one bedroom while the
other one is rendered in bold shades of red.
All the toilets are clad in cement-finish vitrified tiles.
• Living Room • Dining Room and Kitchen
• The furniture, soft furnishings, wall • Shades of red, brought forth
art and the flooring, injected with
through the furniture and floor tiles,
hues of yellow, stand out vividly punctuate the neutral scheme in the
against the neutral backdrop.
dining room.
• Breaking the monotony of the • The cabinet and cupboard shutters
cement tiled flooring are strips of feature cement-finish veneer while
colored vitrified tiles arranged in a
the kitchen countertop, composed
pattern. of nano white slabs, extends into the
• The design language visible here
dining area where it transforms into
continues into the other spaces too,
a multi-purpose counter and a study
though with a different hue table for the couple.
dictating the colour scheme. • The shared washroom, accessible
from the wash area under the
staircase and the bedroom on the
other side, is the only closed space
on the ground floor.
Strategically positioned windows, considering the seasonal shift of
wind, ensure cross ventilation throughout the year. The three sky-lit
vertical volumes, the two landscape voids and the staircase shaft,
that connects to the clerestory windows at the top, facilitates stack
effect and helps control the internal temperature during the hot
summers of the tropical south. Streaks of sunlight and moonlight that
rain down the skylight change seasonally in length and intensity,
making the interiors dynamic throughout the year. The large green
walls, that define the façade, extend and cover one third the roof to
form shaded pockets on the terrace suitable for a siesta or an evening
of barbecue and merriment with friends and family.
Stereotypes were broken throughout in design and start right from the
entry by avoiding the typical compound wall and gate towards the
road.

The shaded front yard becomes the parking area, a sit-out and a play
area that spills out onto the relatively deserted road when the kids are
in a mood for football or cricket, with their friends from the
neighborhood, and a much larger space is needed.

 A variety of flowering creepers and climbing vegetables grown onto


three large frames fixed on the building becomes the extension of the
much-needed garden on this tight plot while providing shade and
privacy to the house.

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