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Architecture

2018

Photographer : Prashant Bhat Photography

Project Name: THE SKEW HOUSE
Architecture Firm: THOUGHT PARALLELS ARCHITECTURE
Website: www.thoughtparallels.com
Contact e-mail: [email protected]
Firm Location: Calicut, Kerala, India 673009
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Completion Year: 2018
Gross Built Area: 12,000 square feet built up area in 1 acre plot
Project location: Kerala, India.
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Lead Architects: Ar. Nikhil Mohan and Shabna Nikhil
Lead Architects e-mail: [email protected]

Photo credits: Prashant Bhat Photography
Photographerâ€™s website: www.facebook.com/Prashbhat
Photographerâ€™s e-mail: [email protected]
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Driving through winding narrow roads in Malapuram district in Kerala, brings us to the site overlooking lush rubber plantation, which is abundantly grown in and around gradual slopes, camouflaging the house from plain view.
Spread over an acre of land is the house which has a modern tropical design amalgamated with traditional architecture. The design of the house utilizes the extents of the plot exceedingly well by having a spread out planning. The Design accommodates the brief of the Family which was to create distinctive guest and family spaces. This clearly leads to the formation of two blocks a guest and family
Connected with each other by a semi-private living.

The guest block houses a guest living, a prayer room and a guest bedroom arranged in a linear form. The presence of the prayer room prompted the architect to align the block along the traditional direction of pray, thus creating a tilt and breaking the initial parallel axis between the two blocks, hence deriving the name "THE SKEW HOUSE"
Views of the minimalistic horticulture combining both hard and soft paving around the house from every room is another dimension added to the design.