Field notes from sites, essays on the materials we love, and a record of the press, talks and conversations the studio has been a part of.
The Kerala courtyard was never just a feature — it was the climate engine of the house. We've spent twelve years trying to give it back to the rooms that surround it, without freezing it as a museum piece.
Read essay →Notes from the slab pour at the Hill Retreat — a meditation on building in 95% humidity, the curing schedule that monsoon forces on you, and why we no longer fight the season.
Read field notes →Samshade Design Magazine's spring issue carries the studio's first cover story — eight pages on the Samanvaya residence, with a long interview with the founders on the slow rhythm of the practice.
Read feature →Why the studio keeps coming back to a stone that everyone else considers difficult — its colour, its breath, its impossible compatibility with the Kerala monsoon, and the masons who still know how to lay it.
Read essay →Rohith and Ihsan in conversation about how a small partnership-led studio actually works — what they say yes to, what they decline, and how they keep the practice's quietness intact at scale.
Watch the talk →An accidental moment at Ehsaas — when the timber screens we'd been arguing about for six months suddenly made complete sense. A small piece on letting the building tell you what it wants.
Read field notes →Gruhalakshmi's annual design issue features a six-page profile of Archstation's residential work — from Samanvaya to the early courtyard houses that began the practice.
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