A Kerala studio shaping homes, institutions and landscapes that breathe with the soil they stand on. Founded in Perintalmanna by Ar. Rohith PV and Ar. Ihsan KI.
We work with laterite, timber, oxide and the rhythm of the monsoon — not against them. Our practice spans a single courtyard home in Calicut to academic and commercial campuses across South India.
What stays constant is restraint: a belief that the most enduring architecture is the kind that does not announce itself.
I grew up in Malabar — the rain, the laterite, the long verandahs that frame a courtyard. Everything I draw is a quiet attempt to give that back to the people who hire us.
I'm an architectural designer, an Assistant Professor at Eranad Knowledge City, and I run two practices alongside Archstation — Palette Curations, and the studio's quieter, slower research projects. When I'm not at the drafting table, I'm on a Harley somewhere on a Western Ghats road, or chasing a sketch of a section that won't quite resolve.
Archstation was started with my partner Ar. Ihsan KI on a single conviction: that buildings should belong to the soil they stand on, and that a small studio, working slowly, can do this better than anyone else.
A home for a young family of dentists and makers, set into a sloping site we chose to follow rather than flatten. The ground floor steps with the land; at its heart, an open-to-sky courtyard holds a single Terminalia tree — the soul of the house, drawing light and air down through every room.
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A double-height interior carved out of a tight urban plot. Terrazzo and brass meet teak in a single, calm room — a daily ritual rendered in three honest materials.
A boutique retreat on the edge of a tea estate. Vertical timber screens dissolve into mist; an infinity edge holds a slice of the valley. The plan disappears, and the place takes over.
A cantilevered concrete volume reaches into the forest. Inside, the floor falls away to glass and the canopy becomes the ceiling. The house is a viewing instrument.
The traditional nadumuttam, recomposed for a modern family. A square pond at the centre, brass lamps overhead, and rooms that turn inward — toward the sky and one another.
Concept-to-execution buildings that belong to where they stand — homes, institutions, hospitality and master plans.
Interiors composed as continuations of the architecture, never afterthoughts. Joinery, lighting and material curation.
Gardens, courtyards and water — designed as spatial extensions of the building and its climate.
Rohith and Ihsan didn't sell us a house. They asked, for nine months, what kind of life we wanted — and then they built it. We've been here three years and the rooms still surprise us in the morning light.
We interviewed seven studios. Archstation was the only one that came back with a question instead of a brochure. Their site supervision is the most thorough I've seen in 22 years of building.
A small studio that punches above its weight. The interior of Lev Ciel is the calmest room I've ever sat in — and they delivered three weeks early.
They proposed laterite when we wanted granite, oxide red when we wanted marble — and we are forever grateful. Our home feels like Kerala did to me as a child.
Architectural Designer, Assistant Professor at Eranad Knowledge City and co-founder of Palette Curations. Harley rider, Bimmer enthusiast — happiest where the road, the section and the next sketch meet.
@ar.rohith.pv ↗Architect with a particular fluency in interiors and the discipline of detailing. Brings a quiet, methodical hand to every drawing — a believer in the dignity of materials left to speak for themselves.
@ar.ihsan.ki ↗For homes above 2,500 sqft, the founders personally visit your site within Kerala — no fee, no obligation. You'll leave with a one-page brief on what your land wants to become.
It begins with a 30-minute call (free) and, for serious projects, a complimentary site visit by one of the founders. From there, we issue a written design fee proposal within seven days. We never start drawing without a signed brief and a small concept retainer.
Residential projects from ₹50 L upwards; hospitality and institutional from ₹3 Cr upwards. We accept eight to ten projects a year and our design fee is typically 7–10% of construction value.
We work primarily across Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and the wider South India. We've built in six states. For sites outside this region, we travel for the four key visits and partner with a local execution architect.
From first sketch to handover, residential projects average 12–18 months. We refuse to compromise on the concept stage — six weeks of slow design saves a year of retrofitting later.
Yes — and we strongly prefer to. The architecture, the interior and the landscape are one continuous gesture. When clients hire us for all three, the result is invariably stronger and the build is faster.
Selectively. If a renovation has a clear architectural problem to solve — opening a courtyard, reordering circulation, redoing a façade — we are interested. For pure aesthetic refreshes, we are not the right studio.
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