Workplaces
D+R Design
We live inside our own philosophy. No air conditioning. No compromise.
Edge of Bangalore, facing the Turahalli forest · 2018 · 2,400 sq ft
We do not ask clients to trust what we preach unless we live in it ourselves. Our studio sits at the edge of Bangalore, facing the forest, as a cluster of bright, naturally cooled rooms around an inner and an outer courtyard. The walls are earth blocks made on site from soil, sand and a little cement, never fired in a kiln. Three existing coconut palms decided where the courtyard walls go. The overhang above the courtyard was calculated so it shades the whole court at summer noon and lets winter sun reach four feet inside. There is no air conditioning here, and we have never needed one.