10 most read (and most beautiful) homes in April in AD India
AD takes you on a journey across the country, finding the most beautiful homes in expected and unexpected corners.
The most beautiful homes are the ones that are well-loved, where the residents fill every nook and corner with their stories and memories. Whether it be a home in Rajasthan which contains items that have been preserved or passed down for generations, or a new build in Chennai that is inspired by the stories of its future residents, each home featured on this list tells its own unique story.
Here are 10 of the most loved and most beautiful homes, as featured in AD India in April.
Architect Arjun Joshy, by his own admission, is a connoisseur of design — and of mangoes, in roughly equal measure. For this bungalow in Thrissur, his latest project spanning 6,250 square feet, it is then clear why his first order of business was to save the mango tree at the centre of the site. "During mango season, the tree became the real hero because it was so full of fruit," says Sharan, the owner of the property, who enlisted Joshy to design a home that would, in time, revolve around it. "Arjun and the workers would happily collect mangoes, and site visits slowly took on a life of their own." Evidently, they weren't the only thing being given a new lease of life. An ancestral home, built 65 years ago — now small and stooping — was to be demolished to make way for its successor, but not before its timber and relics were carefully salvaged and set aside for reuse. The mango tree, meanwhile, became both muse and logistical conundrum. "We were committed to keeping it, but that meant the circulation towards the upper floor had to be sorted out entirely on site," says Joshy, who runs Thrissur-based architecture practice Naked Volume. The solution came in the form of a staircase that wraps around the trunk — an intervention as poetic as it is practical. "We did not want to cut it, so we had to get creative," adds Sharan.
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