Sometimes the land tells you what it wants.
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Practice
Kriya has practised in Kerala since 2007 — architecture, interiors and landscape in one studio.
We read a site before we draw it.
Its light, its water, the way people already move through it. What gets built comes out of that reading — and the three disciplines that shape it sit in one office, so nothing is handed over and nothing is lost between them.
Periyar River Lodge
Nineteen years, and the work is still won by word of mouth. Architecture, interiors and landscape are all done in-house, which is the argument rather than a services list — the ecological logic survives from the site plan down to a door detail because nobody hands it over.
976 Panangad
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How we work
Five stages, in order. Not values the practice holds — stages a project moves through.
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Land. Read the site before drawing — its fall, its water, its light.
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Landscape. Shape the ground. It is not decoration applied at the end.
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Material. Source close, and know where each material came from.
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Making. Build it with the makers, on site, in conversation.
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Time. Return to it. A building is judged by how it ages.
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Projects
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The George’s Apartment
Residence in Kochi
976 Panangad
Elakai, Munnar
Villa Maya
Periyar River Lodge
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Field Notes
In conversation: Vinod Mathews
On reading a place before drawing it, why a sloping roof is a working part before it is a beautiful one, and the Kuthambalam no one had built in seven hundred years.
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Landscape × Architecture — a series
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Landscape × Architecture — a series
Field note 01