A 2,000 Sq.Ft. Courtyard Home in Kerala That Brings the Outdoors In! (House Tour)

Name: A 2,000 Sq.Ft. Courtyard Home in Kerala That Brings the Outdoors In! (House Tour)
Uploaded: 2025-08-26T13:06:00.000Z
Duration: 7 min 8 s
Channel: Nature house
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A home where the courtyard breathes life into every corner. We need to experience the entire project from the beginning of the entrance of the gate itself. When we think about the landscape over the outside, the same thing is happening continuously towards the inner space also. It's like having a storyline. Just like for every inch of the space, we had worked a lot to get that finish and everything. I'm Architect Sharath from Sridhar Design Group, Trissur. Join me for an exclusive home tour of Hridyam in Palakkad. To watch the premium videos and access PDF ebooks with house plans, log on to buildafy.com. The link is in the description below. We need to have a complete play of silence and voice, even the sunlight. Everything should have an important space, as we consider the inside as the house outside of the project. Site is located 30 kilometers from Palakkad and locally known as Kalladikode. Actual plot size is around 30 zenths. Client also having lots of friends and everything. So instead of getting inside the house, he needs more space on the sit-out also. They need a three-bedroom residence project and they only need one single storey house. And also in between 2,000 square feet is their maximum area requirement. Once we enter to the main door, we are stepping into a courtyard with flooring which includes the renderables and every other natural elements. This is the inbuilt seating we had provided just after the entry, entrance of the project. This seating itself is made up of wood and outside type cement like structures below. And also we had given a support with a wooden elements with the same continuity, the elements of cane, everything into this project. It's like having a large open hall space which includes the living space and dining space and opening towards the open kitchen. The boundary also, actually we had not provided any windows or sliders or anything. Just like we raised up the boundary wall over here and we got a controlled private space over there and all the living space or everything is open towards the courtyard space itself. As we know, we have three bedrooms. We had actually sewn the bedrooms around the courtyard, just like this is the heart of the house and we had placed three bedrooms with the maximum view towards the courtyard space. And we also tried to get a concept like all the bedrooms should have a proper inner courtyard windows also. When we talk about the pillars at the courtyard, actually it's from the Karimbana. It's actually a locally easily sourceable wood on Palakkad. Pillars feels to be like a proper balancing of the entire mass of the project. Just like for the double height space, instead of having a solid base for supporting a large structure, that's why we had provided with some spherical bolts under the huge 10 feet Karimbana pillars. The laterite has been maintained both for the structural and as well as for the aesthetical view, we had maintained the laterite brick as the major element. For providing a balcony, we need to have a proper height, just like it's a single-story house but we need a balcony space. So we had provided a double height space. To balance it, we had provided with a mezzanine floor. So instead of having a solid beam or anything, we can simply solve by metal structure with a wooden paving on that. It's not a simply a house, it's like having a poetic reference, just like having a breathable space. Every element over the house, just like even from the step to the washbasin itself, we had traveled a lot to collect those things and we had sourced many workers to carve it, everything for all the process. But it's not about the perfection also, it's about the raw feel and the little imperfections in everything, including the stones or everything. Maybe some cracks will be there and we are retaining that cracks. After interacting with the client, one of the major studies for us is also that their daily routines are related to this design. Quality time they are spending on the house itself has been increased. So it feels like a good space or a good design space or a good architecture can make changes in the human character itself.