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Premium Prefab Compact Home (Proposed)
Elathur, Calicut, Kerala, India

Area - 800 sq.ft
Cost Estimate - ₹18 lacs (approx.)*

Comprising of an open living-dining-kitchen space connecting two bedrooms with en-suite bathrooms, this compact villa is designed as a second home for the clients, who wish to use it occasionally for their own purposes and rent it out as a short-term premium rental property when they’re not in town.

Designed as a mostly prefabricated structure completely elevated off the ground by about three feet, this compact building eliminates the need for earth-filling/ excavation or any other alteration to the existing natural terrain of the plot, barring the individual concrete footings to support the main structural columns. This also protects against dampness, moisture and flooding in a tropical wet monsoon-based climate like that of Kerala.

The structural frame itself consists of standard structural steel hollow sections onto which large glass doors/ windows are fixed. The infill walls are dry-walls composed of premium fibre-cement boards finished with fibre-cement planks/ WPC/ equivalent siding on the external facade.

Most components are fabricated indoors and transported to the site for joining/ installation. This process speeds up the construction significantly, using manpower efficiently and thus resulting in a much faster turnaround time when compared with conventional on-site construction.

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* cost estimate includes built-in furniture & fittings, excludes movable furniture

Proposed Private Villa
Parakkadavu, Kozhikode district

Floor Area - 8,000 sq.ft
Cost Estimate - ₹ 2 crore (approx.)

This is a proposed scheme for a young business family who wanted their new house to entertain guests as well as to serve as a retreat for themselves and their kids to rejuvenate and relax in.

The public and common spaces were zoned at the ground level, and the bedrooms and other personal spaces were on the upper levels.

The first floor, being essentially a cluster of bedrooms (with attached bathrooms) connected by corridors, was visualised as an open, green ‘garden’ of sorts where the passages were conceived as ‘walkways’ in a garden. Open green areas, seating and leisure spaces were thus planned in these in-between spaces, making the house feel closer to a ‘garden resort’ than a conventional villa.

Most spaces are provided with large glazed openings that can slide open when required, further protected from the sun and rain through operable louvered shutters serving as external ‘curtains’ to the full sized glass openings, passively controlling the interior heat gain and providing for ample natural ventilation.

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