The house was to be conceived as a pre-engineered structure keeping in mind the vagaries of local building labor. This approach minimizes damage to the site's ecology and simultaneously reduces the duration of construction. The slope of our site allowed for the house to step down, while the south and east faces opened to the vistas of the picturesque coffee plantations around the valley. We wanted to optimize on the intake of sun light by virtue of the form of the roof, in response to the climate of Coonoor.
The structure of the roof comprises of interlaced steel tubes forming a mesh which are clad with wood on the inside and covered with handcrafted metal shingles outside. The structure would be fabricated off site and reassembled. The structure is made of two kinds of frames; the thicker frame forms the profile of the roof rising from the ground and
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