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Insights · From the drawing board

Notes on designing for this place.

Short, useful pieces from the studio: how buildings answer the Kerala climate, and how to buy design well. No news, no filler, and every number carries its source.

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I have a plot. Where do I even start?

Start with the sun and the rain. The climate piece shows what the plan has to answer before anything is drawn.

I am talking to firms. What should I ask?

Five questions, a stage-by-stage fee map and six warning signs in one line each.

Architect, contractor, draftsman: what is the difference?

Who sells what, in what order, and how the three work together on one house.

All nine pieces.

Redesigning an older Kerala home.
When a redesign is worth it, what to keep, what to change, and what the design work involves. · 6 min read→KMBR setbacks explained.
Front, side and rear yards in plain words, the August 2026 changes, and what the rules mean for your plot layout. · 7 min read→One roof, three clocks: a home for three generations.
How the plan gives grandparents, parents and children their own quiet, and still brings everyone to one table. · 6 min read→Your first meeting with an architect.
What to bring (the plot papers, a page about your family, a budget range) and the six questions to ask before you leave. · 6 min read→Designing homes for Kerala’s climate.
Two monsoons, a hard western sun and air that carries water. The climate is the first client on every Kerala site. Here is how a house answers it, with the numbers. · 6 min read→How to choose an architect in Trivandrum.
Built work, written fees and the questions worth asking before you sign anything. A field guide for a decision you will live inside for decades. · 6 min read→Architect, contractor, draftsman: who does what.
Three different trades get called in to make a house happen in Kerala, and they are not interchangeable. What each one actually does, in what order, and who you need when. · 5 min read→Courtyard house design Kerala: the modern nadumuttam.
The nadumuttam was not a design tradition. It was a spatial technology. Here is why it is coming back — and why the new version works differently. · 9 min read→Narrow. Sloped. Odd-shaped. Trivandrum’s hardest plots make the best homes.
Most houses built on Trivandrum’s difficult plots are compromises. They don’t have to be. An architect explains what a constrained site actually makes possible. · 7 min read→

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