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Something Borrowed: A 3,000 sq. ft. Bengaluru Home References Traditional Udupi Houses With A Contemporary Flair

This contemporary home in Bengaluru pays homage to the residing family’s roots, belonging to Udupi while borrowing distinctive elements from their traditional houses.

weekend homes

Tamarind Retreat Seamlessly Integrates Nature and Comfort to Create Dynamic Living Experiences

Sustainable materials and energy-efficient systems underscore this eco-friendly second home design, creating a tranquil, low-carbon footprint retreat that blends comfort with nature.

luxury home

A Collection of Gardens: This Pune Home Uses Petite Gardens to Merge with the Forest Beyond

Nestled within a lush context in Pune, this luxe home sustains an age-old relationship, connecting the residents to its natural surroundings.

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Is Sustainability in for the season or the future? Buildofy Talks to the Guardians to Discover their Secret

The showers extinguished the country's residents, simmered with a gamut of construction sites and its effects. In memory of Environment Day, Buildofy speaks to architects underscoring the importance of sustainability through designs.

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Poetry Slam: A 15,000 sq. ft. Rajasthan Home Recites Verses on Sustainability Tucked in its Stone Walls

With natural, reclaimed materials and ingeniously in-built cooling methods, Ananda-Poetry in Stone aims at an eco-conscious character without leaving behind any carbon footprint.

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Greens and Neutrals Join Forces in Kerala to Embellish a 3,330 sq. ft. Beauty with Regional Influences

By handing out invites to nature, this home in Kerala embodies the spirit of its context while comfortably soaking in the tranquil warmth of nature’s produce.

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Modernism With Mud: A Bengaluru Home is Inspired by the Five Elements from Nature

A home mimics its community and natural surrounding lushness, by employing a palette of all things natural and unprocessed.

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Beat the Heat: 7 Cool Homes That Tackle the Blazing Indian Summer

Due to climate change, summers blaze extra hot this year, underscoring many monstrous dealings between structures and ecology. Cooling off, here are a few sustainably designed homes that become a guide for summer-ready homes.

Sustainable Homes

Inside Out: This 2,874 sq. ft. Kerala Home Plays an Intermediary to Hustle and Calm

This home boasting wooden accents and reclaimed elements dons a cap of sustainability, emerging into an ethereal world that whispers stories of the past alongside a blooming view.

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Dear Earth, Happy Mother’s Day! 5 Homes That Worship Their Roots by Celebrating Mother Nature

Mother’s Day is one day of the year when a mother’s boundless and perpetual necessity is recognized. This year, Buildofy recognizes Mother Nature’s necessity, narrating tales of homes that equally respect the wishes of their often-overlooked creator.

luxury homes

Garden of Regality: A 17,500 sq. ft. Home Transcends Boundaries To Peck Nature

This home in the heart of the city, paradoxically stands under the lush shade of the previously planted trees. Following their lead, the home too, incorporates gardens and vantage points in its luxe sanctum.

contemporary homes

Coquetting With the Waves: A Chennai Home Writes Love Letters About Its Regional Designs

This home takes notes on Chennai’s indigenous architecture and embodies its fluid characteristics while altering it to fit the family’s flourishing needs.

Sustainable Homes

Unprocessed Utopia: A 3,800 sq. ft. Home Satiates a Family’s Wishes for All things Recycled and Unprocessed

Away from the city, a residence emerges with ingredients recycled and upcycled to make a perfect recipe that matches the family’s ecological tastes.

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Indian Homes that Embrace Sustainable Living with Water-centric Architectural Designs

Water has always been a flag bearer of peace and tranquility, cults that fanatically search for it in the susurrus of streams. But water holds much more flairs to flaunt, Buildofy can account for it. Let’s sail through homes that feature water as a character in their architectural narrative.

Sustainable Homes

This Home in Maharashtra is: Of the Earth, By the Earth, For the Earth

Sustainability has peaked since climate change symptoms are visible to the populaces. Thus, this home with its ingenious techniques and natural décor, sitting amidst a lush setting, becomes a crusader for ‘saving the planet’.

contemporary homes

This 4,200 sq. ft. Home Corroborates with the Materials and Techniques of the Past to Curate a Warm Habitat

Brick is a material that, when exposed by default, is attached to one name; the celebrated architect Laurie Baker. This home too, with its minimal palette of materials and airy spaces, balances modern and traditional styles while referencing the Gandhi of architecture.

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When Kerala Meets Chennai: A Home That Travels an Extra Mile for Sustainability

In an effort to materialize the sustainable influence of Kerala architecture, Srishti is drenched in the piquancy of ‘God’s own country’. With undulations, courtyards, and wooden accents it sits in the heart of the bustling city of Chennai.

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Memoirs of a So-Called ‘Woman’ Architect

Infusing their own homes with a gentle warmth while also gently caressing their designs, women are watering the pasture of architecture. Buildofy’s ability to right-swipe on projects invites fate to find a match of project and architect, that is made in heaven.

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Blooming Romances: A Home that Flirts with Its Surroundings while/and Becoming One with Them

Exposed brick and concrete paired with glass when set against pockets of blooming verdant gardens, conspire the formation of the House with Gardens of North-East-South.

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World Mother Tongue Day: 5 Homes that Bridge the Gap Between Verbal and Architectural Language

With changing times, the language barrier is becoming a rather trivial discomfort in the larger narrative. Keeping in trend with this crusade, Buildofy pins its ears back to its archives to spotlight homes with a language besides English.

Sustainable Homes

Embracing Nature and Sustainable Living at the House of Greens

Nestled amidst the lush greenery of Bengaluru, the House of Greens stands as a testament to sustainable living and harmonious coexistence with the environment. This unique project reflects a blend of luxury and eco-consciousness.

contemporary homes

Amidst the bustle of Bengaluru, this Organic Home is a Journey of Tradition, Modernity, and Belonging

Amidst the continuous progress of development, in the center of a busy city, there is a dialogue that goes beyond physical walls. It's a conversation between clients and architects, a symphony of hopes, desires, and the enduring need for a home.

contemporary homes

This 1,600 sq. ft. Home in Noida is Made Using only Lime and Mud

Traditional mud houses have lost their relevance in the modern-day, while chasing aesthetics and rapid construction techniques. Mud Showcase House is a playful and at times, conventional and ingenious take on the traditional mud houses.

Traditional Homes

A Farmhouse on the Outskirts of Hyderabad is a Tranquil Getaway for Six Families

This contemporary farmhouse shows signs of life while taking cues from the traditional Manduva Houses. Maintaining perfect harmony with its natural surroundings, while flaunting a minimalistic design, it emerges as a larger-than-life extension of the already existing farmhouse.

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National Geographic Day: 5 Homes that Write Love Letters to the Natural Geography Through Indigenous Local Techniques

Native construction techniques paired with locally sourced materials make for a sustainable alliance that bequeaths back to nature as much as it procures from it. Let's journey through five homes from Buildofy’s archives that exemplify a reciprocal relationship with abundance around.