Project brief - The client envisioned a holiday retreat on the outskirts of Jaipur as a weekend escape — a place to relax, farm, and celebrate life with family and friends. The brief called for four bedrooms, generous living and dining areas, a pool for children, and spaces for recreation. Beyond functionality, the desire was for crafted environments that could host daily rituals: morning tea in small courts, evenings on a vast green lawn for hi-tea and gatherings, and outdoor zones for play and farming. The home was to embody permanence while offering intimacy, openness, and moments of leisure — the perfect getaway from city life.​

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Design process - The design is rooted in its simplicity, appearing as though the building rises naturally from the ground. Constructed with rubble, brick vaults, and other locally sourced materials, the architecture feels timeless yet unobtrusive, blending with the surrounding greens. Spaces are deliberately arranged to balance enclosure with openness, creating a rhythm between stone, light, and landscape. The linear blocks are interspersed with courtyards and passages that frame views — a series of crafted visual axises that connect inside and outside seamlessly. Each frame captures a slice of sky, green, or stone, making movement through the house a spatial experience in itself. The farmhouse is not about excess, but about clarity — crisp, clean open spaces that encourage gathering, pause, and reflection, while staying rooted in context and material honesty.​

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Design description - The process began with a careful study of site, orientation, and climate, which shaped the farmhouse into two linear blocks — one private and one social — linked through passages, wedge-shaped courtyards, and crafted free-standing walls. Importantly, all materials were sourced within 25 km, reinforcing the project’s rootedness in its context. Rubble masonry was not only chosen for its availability but also engineered to create vaulted, high-ceilinged volumes that reduce heat gain and maintain cooler interiors in Jaipur’s harsh climate. Courtyards became the key spatial device, designed in a hierarchy of scales — from intimate courts for pause and morning tea, to larger open greens for gatherings and farming. This sequential movement through courts and passages makes landscape an integral part of the architecture, blurring boundaries between built and unbuilt, and creating a farmhouse both responsive and experiential.