Courtyard Residence
Indeevaram
A pitched, tiled roof over a courtyard plan — carved timber, turned columns and jaali screens doing the work.
Architecture · Civil · Interiors
Originatingtimeless habitats.
We design houses for this climate and stay appointed until they are built. One team, one drawing set, no handover.
10 yearsOf practice
03Disciplines
HyderabadStudio
Goa · KeralaAlso built
10Years of practice across architecture, civil and interiors
03Disciplines held under one accountable team
01Written scope — inclusions and exclusions, before you commit
09Stages, each with a defined outcome you receive
What we stand for
We build houses that stay calm, age well and feel like yours.
Mesopotamia is the name given to the land where the first towns and the first buildings appeared. We took it because the work should feel modern without losing that thread.
What that means in practice is simple. Good light. Real materials. Rooms that suit how you live. Nothing added just to be seen. Every design is drawn for you — we do not repeat a plan.
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Built to last
We design a house you will still like in twenty years — not one that looks new this year and tired the next.
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Real materials
Stone, lime, wood, metal, plaster. Left as what they are, not painted to look like something they are not.
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Made for this place
For Hyderabad sun and Goa rain, for your street and your plot. Not a design copied from a country with a different climate.
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Made for your life
Rooms sized for how your family actually lives — not for how the house will look in one photograph.
Selected work
All projects
Projects
Bodhi
Residence with a Meditation Court
Stone, planting and a seated figure under a brick screen — with terracotta and green carrying the rooms.
Ravishankar Residence
Residence Interiors
Timber and grey through the public rooms, with a carved screen and a stone plinth where it matters.
Every image on this site is our own — photographs of completed work and studio visualisations of projects in design, together with our own drawings and diagrams.
Why it matters
Design intent usually dies somewhere between the drawing and the site.
Drawings are issued. A contractor is appointed. A material is substituted because it was quicker to source. A junction is decided by whoever is standing there on the day. None of these is dramatic on its own, and together they are the difference between the house you agreed to and the house you get.
Most of what we do exists to close that gap — by staying appointed through construction, by approving materials in the hand rather than on a screen, and, where clients want it, by taking on the civil execution ourselves.
What usually happens
- Drawings are issued and the architect steps back.
- A contractor is appointed and starts pricing.
- Materials get swapped for cheaper ones.
- More decisions are taken on site, by whoever is standing there.
- The finished house is not the house that was drawn.
How we work
- Drawings are issued and we stay appointed.
- You hold the real samples before anything is ordered.
- Each stage is signed off and photographed.
- The next trade only starts after that.
- The finished house is the house that was drawn.
The same drawing set carries through design and execution. Nobody hands over, so nobody has anyone to blame.
How we workProcess
The full process
Nine stages, each with something you receive at the end of it.
Nine stages, in order
- Brief — in your words, written down.
- Site and climate — visited at different times of day.
- Concept — two or three real options.
- Design development — resolved room by room.
- Material — samples in your hand. Signed off.
- Drawings and approvals — tender-ready set.
- Tender — costs you can compare line by line.
- Construction — each stage checked. Signed off.
- Handover — snag list closed with you there. Signed off.
The three in bold are signed off and photographed before the next trade starts.
Three that matter most
Clients worry about the same three moments: being understood at the start, what actually gets specified, and what happens once work begins.
01
Listening
Before anything is drawn we want the brief in your words — how the family actually lives, what the day looks like, what you disliked about the last house you lived in.
You getA written brief we both agree on05
Material
Physical samples, not renders. Plaster panels, stone slabs, timber pieces, hardware in the hand. Seen in daylight on site wherever possible.
You getApproved material and finish schedule08
Construction
Stage-wise checks against a fixed list — footing, frame, block work, conduiting, plaster, waterproofing, finish. Each signed off and photographed before the next trade begins.
You getA progress record you receive, not a file we keepClimate first
The cheapest thing you will ever specify is which way the openings face.
In this climate the west wall is the problem. Late afternoon sun arrives low, enters deep, and lands on surfaces that radiate heat into the room for hours after sunset.
Decide orientation first, set overhangs from the sun angle rather than from a standard detail, and the glass specification usually comes down rather than up. Done in the reverse order, you pay to correct it for the life of the building.
What a 1500mm overhang does in Hyderabad
- Summer noon sunComes in steep. The overhang stops it. The room stays cool.
- Winter noon sunComes in low. It passes under the overhang. The room stays warm.
- Late afternoon west sunComes in almost flat. No overhang can stop it — that side needs a screen, a wall or planting.
This is why the west side of a house costs you more in cooling than the south side.
On cost
We would rather have an uncomfortable conversation about budget in month one than a worse one in month nine.
- Before appointment
- A written scope stating what is included, what is excluded, what we need from you and when, and what each stage produces.
- During design
- Costs presented stage by stage. If a brief and a budget do not meet, we say so before you appoint us.
- At tender
- Bills of quantity and rate comparison, so competing prices can be read line by line rather than as one number.
- During construction
- Where we execute, work is costed against that bill of quantities. Substitutions need your written agreement, not a site decision.
We do not promise that nothing will ever change. We promise you will see it coming, in writing, before it does.
Capabilities
All services
Services
Architecture
You have land, or are about to buy it, and want the building designed properly before anyone prices it.
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Interiors
You want the inside of the house resolved to the same standard as the outside — ideally before the frame is cast.
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Civil
You want one party accountable for both the design and what actually gets built.
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Before you write
The questions we are asked most.
Yes. Most of our work is in and around Hyderabad, and we have completed projects in Goa and Kerala. Travel and site-visit frequency are agreed in the appointment.
Yes. We will be clear about which parts of the design intent are harder to protect once construction is with another party.
Design typically runs three to six months depending on how settled the brief is. Construction depends on scale, site and approvals. We give a programme at appointment and update it stage by stage.
Usually a percentage of project cost for architecture, and a defined fee for interiors. Civil execution is costed against a bill of quantities. Everything is written down before you commit.
Costs are presented stage-wise, with exclusions written down as clearly as inclusions. Where we execute, work is costed against a bill of quantities you can compare line by line.
Start a conversation
Tell us about the site, and the life you want in it.
A first conversation settles what the project actually needs, which of the three services apply, and whether we are the right practice for it. Nothing is committed at that stage.
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