Designed for Noufal Charan, his wife, and three children, House of Noufal reflects its owners natural curiosity, open mindset, and love for traveling. The homeowners? main desire was that their 242 square meter home should be unique, even weird, and packed with surprises. The team at 3dor Concepts combined modern architecture with traditional Kerala architecture […]

Designed for Noufal Charan, his wife, and three children, House of Noufal reflects its owners natural curiosity, open mindset, and love for traveling. The homeowners? main desire was that their 242 square meter home should be unique, even weird, and packed with surprises. The team at 3dor Concepts combined modern architecture with traditional Kerala architecture to conjure up the climatically responsive tropical house in Pazhayangadi, Kannur. The design features a dramatically sloping roof that anchors widely into ground. This distinctive feature gives the house an unusual form, which proves practical for granting the house shelter from beating sunshine or heavy rain during the summer monsoon season.
Photographer: Syam Sreesylam  

In Kannur, a northern district in Kerala, India, heavy rains are experienced in the wet maritime climate. In answer to the challenges that the climate brings, the architectural team imagined a great, overhanging, roofline that is a broad umbrella in the summer monsoon season and a parasol in the sun.

Steel framework slopes from the pitch of the roof down into the ya...