N° 011
Courtyard house at Thrippunithura
New house · Thrippunithura, Kochi · 2024
A single-storey house built around an open courtyard that takes the rain: every room opens onto the verandah that runs round it.
- Kind
- New house
- Status
- Handed over
- Where
- Thrippunithura, Kochi
- Built for
- Two doctors and their parents
- Plot
- 20 cents · 8,710 sq ft
- Built-up area
- 3,400 sq ft (316 m²)
- Floors
- Ground floor only
- Work started
- 15 May 2023
- Handed over
- 20 Aug 2024
- Took
- 15 months
- Rate
- ₹2,900 per sq ft built-up
- Structure
- RCC frame with laterite infill
- Courtyard
- Sunken, open to the sky, granite edge and a drain to the rainwater pit
- Roof
- Sloping clay tiles on all four sides
- Columns
- Laterite pillars and teak posts on the verandah
What we did
- Built to the client's architect's drawings
- Courtyard drainage to a rainwater pit
- All joinery in seasoned teak
Site diary
Dated photos from the site, stage by stage.
12 Sep 2023Frame around the courtyard 20 Aug 2024Handover
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