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land where the owner grew up with his
family, including his father, a successful
farmer who in previous years had
cultivated plants on the site. It is a house,
but more broadly, home.
Rather than remain in the past, however,
the house lives for the current moment.
It is a modestly scaled single-story
structure of 2,906 square feet that
punches above its weight. It is a made-
for-Instagram knockout, for starters,
constructed with core 3dor Concepts
principles. But more importantly for the
architects and owner, it is a progressive
n the foothills of the Western
Ghats in north Kerala, India,
a response to nature takes
shape in a naturalistically
finished form by Kannur-based
practice 3dor Concepts, an
interdisciplinary architecture and design
firm founded by a trio of young architects
whose collective vision is of the future
but, as this project illustrates, timeless
in its simplicity and honesty—one that
plays into what the practice believes is
the human impulse to be surrounded by
the beauty and tranquillity of the natural
world.
Designed as a refuge far removed from
the urban bustle of big Indian cities
where its owner works as a management
professional, the House of Binil, as the
project is called, is a new work with a
long memory. It sits on the same plot of
