{"id":8776,"date":"2026-05-25T10:00:51","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T10:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angesfinanciers.org\/?p=8776"},"modified":"2026-05-29T15:16:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T15:16:13","slug":"summer-home-by-mindspark-architects-overlooks-cardamom-plantation-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angesfinanciers.org\/index.php\/2026\/05\/25\/summer-home-by-mindspark-architects-overlooks-cardamom-plantation-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Home by Mindspark Architects overlooks cardamom plantation in India"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Indian studio Mindspark Architects has created a house<\/a> overlooking a cardamom plantation in Kerala<\/a>, using sliding glass doors to connect its concrete<\/a> interiors and the surrounding landscape.<\/span><\/p>\n

Named Summer Home, the 360-square-metre dwelling is partially sunken into a sloping site at the highest point of the lush plantation in Idukki.<\/p>\n

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Mindspark Architects has created Summer Home in Kerala<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Mindspark Architects<\/a> designed the home with two timber viewing decks as its focal point, onto which the interiors open up via glazed sliding doors.<\/p>\n

A large, mono-pitched roof gives the appearance of a lower volume facing the road, rising upwards in what the studio describes as a “gradual unfolding” to frame panoramic views of the plantation.<\/p>\n

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Sliding glass doors open the home up to the landscape<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“Instead of resisting the slope through excessive levelling, the design embraces it – stepping with the contours and embedding portions of the house into the land,” principal architect Prabhul Mathew and associate partner Shahana Salahudeen told Dezeen.<\/p>\n

“From the approach, the structure appears restrained and minimal, but upon entering, the space opens dramatically toward the expansive landscape,” they added.<\/p>\n

“Movement through the house is designed as a gradual unfolding, where spaces and views reveal themselves sequentially.”<\/p>\n

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One of the terraces incorporates an ornamental pool<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Summer Home is organised across two levels. Its living, dining and kitchen area is elevated on the upper floor, benefitting from the fully-glazed wall that opens onto a wooden terrace, where an ornamental pool reflects the surrounding tree canopy.<\/p>\n

Above, the steel frame of the sloping roof is infilled with timber planks, while the interior walls contrast crisp, white-painted surfaces with rough, board-marked concrete.<\/p>\n