
Let the double height stay empty
The instinct is to fill a two-storey volume. Resist it. One tall window, one scaled light fitting and a single well-proportioned wall do more than a gallery of objects ever will.

Ideas · Villas
A villa interior is not a large apartment interior. There are volumes to resolve, a staircase that is furniture as much as circulation, and an indoor–outdoor relationship that decides how the house is actually used for nine months of the year.

The instinct is to fill a two-storey volume. Resist it. One tall window, one scaled light fitting and a single well-proportioned wall do more than a gallery of objects ever will.

Cantilevered treads off a stone wall with no visible stringer, lit from the side so each tread casts a shadow. In most villas it is the thing every visitor stops at.

Sliding walls of glass make the courtyard part of the living room for most of the Pune year, and give every adjoining room a green view at no extra floor area.

Bedroom, dressing and bathroom conceived as one apartment within the house, usually upper floor and opening to a private terrace.

Kota and local basalt get better with use; high-gloss imported marble in a high-traffic entry shows every footfall within two years. Honed finishes and patina are the point.

A pergola, a long table and lighting warm enough and low enough to keep people out there past eleven. It is the cheapest entertaining space you will ever build.
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