AD100 2025: Courtyard homes | Architectural Digest India

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Hundredhands, Bengaluru

Bijoy Ramachandan

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Project in focus: A family home in Trichy built around a linear courtyard. It is a reference to the family’s ancestral home. Its design evokes the same sense of community and gathering as traditional courtyard houses. Recycled timber, filler slabs and jack arches have been used in this project while an open lower floor allows the courtyard to induce air circulation within the house.

Upcoming projects: Houses in Nandi Hills and Devanahalli (Karnataka) and Goa; an Ayurvedic resort in Kerala; a forest conservation project in Coorg; schools in Bengaluru.

Material you’re obsessed with: Cross-laminated timber (CLT)

Philosophy: “To produce work that is frugal, pragmatic, collaborative and crafted, refined, graceful. The studio’s approach is grounded in the search for contextually appropriate solutions.”

LAB, Mumbai

Shonan Purie Trehan

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Project in focus: “House of 7 Courtyards” is a true garden house where each space connects directly to a unique courtyard that has a distinct character. The sprawling multigenerational home in Vadodara is made using exposed concrete, rammed earth and mud plaster. Designed as a luxurious “ashram”, the home is a single-level structure deeply rooted to the ground.

Upcoming projects: An iconic women’s skilling centre in the desert; hospitals in Uttar Pradesh and Kathmandu; medical college in Delhi; houses in Alibag, Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Goa.

Materials you’re obsessed with: Poured earth and 3D printing with earth

Philosophy: “Our name reflects our design philosophy. We named the practice ‘Language. Architecture. Body.’ as we believe in working between the narrative, the built intervention and habitation.”

Malik Architecture, Mumbai

Kamal Malik, Arjun Malik

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Project in focus: A building in Khar, Mumbai, that re-establishes a substantive relationship with the street by eliminating the presence of a massive building at street eye-level. Designed for a joint family, it features individual residences planned around central north-facing courtyards with the public and private spaces located in the east and west zones. The courtyards bind the internal spaces and allow for natural light and breeze to flow throughout the house.

Upcoming projects: Hotel projects in interesting locations like Kalimpong, West Bengal, and Chikkamagaluru, Karnataka; master planning project in Raipur, Chhattisgarh.

Materials you’re obsessed with: Brick, stone, and wood

Philosophy: “To develop a relevant contemporary syntax of architecture for the Indian subcontinent articulated through architecture as a synthesis of ecology and spirit.”