Residential
Bandra West, Mumbai · 4,200 sq.ft.
Residential
Alibaug, Maharashtra · 2024
6,400 sq.ft.
Courtyard House
A low-slung family villa organised around a planted courtyard, where deep overhangs and lime plaster temper the coastal light.
Location
Alibaug, Maharashtra
Category
Residential
Area
6,400 sq.ft.
Year
2024
Style
Contemporary Tropical
Duration
14 months
Client
Private Client
The Brief
Spatial intent &
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Spatial intent &
architectural form.
Turn-Key Scope
Full architectural fit-out including concept drawings, bespoke teak joinery, lighting choreography, civil MEP, and final handover styling.
Status: Handed Over
Completed 2024
Project Narrative
The Courtyard House sits on a two-acre coastal plot in Alibaug. Rather than placing a single mass, the residence is broken into three pavilions around a central garden — giving every room a relationship with green and breeze.
The material palette is deliberately narrow: board-formed concrete, warm teak joinery and hand-applied lime plaster. Nothing is glossy. The result reads as a house that has always been there, lightly edited rather than built.
Design Concept
Our concept was "borrowed horizon". Every principal room is aligned to a slice of the sea, so the view is never the whole landscape but always a fragment — which keeps the eye moving through the day as light changes. Circulation is externalised into shaded verandas, letting the interior stay cool and quiet.
Spatial Gallery
Inside the completed space.
Documented on handover day by the studio. High-definition views of joinery, textures, and natural lighting.
Execution Craft
The details that
The details that
took the longest.
The nuances that rarely appear in elevation drawings, but determine how quietly a home or workplace functions every single day.
01
Coconut-toned lime plaster applied across three volumes
02
Custom teak pivot doors framing the courtyard
03
Bamboo and reclaimed-timber flooring throughout
04
Zero-maintenance native landscape by Studio Verda
