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An Airy, Minimalist Villa in Siolim

A 1,850-square-feet home within a gated community overlooking paddy fields, Siolim Door belongs to Revati and Charles Victor, advertising professionals and part-time travel bloggers. Thehomewas a blank canvas for the married couple, who were clear that they wanted to embrace the locale without resorting to cliches and merge the design with their minimalist sensibilities.

The showstopping feature is the double-height living room with a sloped gable roof. “We loved the full-height Gothic window and wanted to celebrate it with something equally tall, so we chose a large traveller's palm, to mimic the trees outside. We love white spaces; there is nothing that says tropical beach house more than white upholstery,” says Charles. The ground-floor bedroom features a large window that opens into a quiet little garden at the back, while the first-floor bedroom exactly above it has a balcony that looks out at the endless expanse of paddy fields. “We wanted both bedrooms to have a light, airy feel. When we moved in, we heard stories of two beautiful mango trees outside the villa that died, so as a tribute to them, we decided to choose mango wood for all our custom-made furniture. Both bedrooms feature mango-wood wardrobes to one side, minimalist shelving with a couple of interesting yet non-dominating pieces on them, and airy, white linen all around. The beds had to be king-size with matching mango-wood grain visible on the headboard and side tables,” he adds.

A Mediterranean Oasis in North Goa

“Instead of adhering to the local Goan-Portuguese architectural context, we wanted to create clean and tranquil spaces, reminiscent of Mediterranean decor with its white and blue tones,” say Sachin and Neha Gupta, co-founders of Beyond Designs, who designed an 8,000 square feet sprawl for a Delhi business magnate and his wife on north Goa’s Coco Beach.

Since the four-storeybungalowstands on stilts, the architects maximised half of the stilt area to create a dining room, a bar lounge and a courtyard. The first floor has two bedrooms with balconies, and their ensuite bathrooms include individual balconies. “We took advantage of the bathroom spill-out area of one bedroom to create a charming outdoor bath by installing a custom tub,” Sachin says. A canopy of tree branches gives it enough privacy, and green fencing and stoneware planters finished in grey create symmetric uniformity. Upstairs, on the second floor, a double-heighted area serves as the formal living room. An oversized carved wood panel forms a gorgeous feature wall, and the TV unit in wood has a cane front in a matte finish. Accent chairs are upholstered in printed fabric with brass rivets. Furnishings in a light shade and a mosaic stone coffee table in blue and white add marine freshness and hints of Portuguese influences.

An Unconventional Home Cocooned in a Canopy of Trees

A house without walls, a home without air conditioning and a space without barriers. Everything about this villa in Carona Village, Goa, helmed by architect Ini Chatterji overturns convention. For this home on a hilly terrain in Goa's Carona village, his particular maverick approach led to a residence that perches lightly on the land, and restricts the palette of materials to a bare minimum.

Here, coconut wood is dominating in its presence and unexpected in its use, with the architect having zeroed in on the material after having built his own home with it. Chatterji's vision for the client's desire, of a “cascading six-bedroom villa with an outdoor pool”, took the shape of a house encased within collapsible louvred coconut-wood doors that work as walls, which meant that the entirehousecan be opened out to the view outside, and the deck-like balcony.

A Bungalow That Merges with its Lush Surroundings

在古雅的村庄Siolim,果阿一个美丽的canal twinkles under the setting sun. Here, where the water skims the shore, rises a house, appearing as if it has been rooted in the land since the beginning of time. Aptly christened the ‘Earth House', its rustic stone and teak wood textures, exposed concrete roofs, large overhangs, shaded courtyards and towering palm trees help merge its form with the surrounding nature. Thehomeis designed by Amita Kulkarni and Vikrant Tike of SAV Architecture + Design.

A custom-crafted, louvred teakwood front door heralds visitors into a semi-open verandah, where sunlight, projected through perforations, veil the cool concrete floor. Says Tike, “The interior-exterior concept has evolved with a focus on permeability and openness. A variety of landscapes, louvres, screens, sculptures and water features weave a seamless tapestry across the indoor and outdoor realms.” Akin to a water sanctuary is the double-height living room, which, along with the palm-lined pool and surrounding landscape, forms an aesthetic elemental trifecta. The ground floor rooms have internal courtyards, from where the sunlight filters in fluidly through the trees. The upper rooms are connected to private terraces that offer an expansive view of the luxuriant treetops.