Curvedhouses

The “Skyward” home is located on a 18 cents East facing narrow plot, located in a rural residential area in Haripad, Kerala. The clients approached S Squared Architects to build a home for them that would be simple, devoid of any pretensions from the outside but comfortable and convenient on the inside.One of the challenges that caught the attention of the S Squared team was the nature of the site itself. Aligned in the East West direction with approximately 14m width and 51 m length , the site had a very narrow frontage. Abutting the South East of the site was a “Sarpa kave” which is a sacred groove, specially meant for snakes. Sacred grooves in Kerala are considered to be divine and it was forbidden to kill snakes... More