Project Details
- Location
- Chennai, Tamil Nadu
- Year
- 2023
- Category
- Interior
- Area
- 420 m²
- Status
- Completed
Services
“Silence as a luxury”
A top-floor apartment in Nungambakkam, Chennai, redesigned from a bare shell into a meditative urban home. The brief was precise and demanding: create calm. Every surface, material, and detail was chosen to recede — letting the resident, the morning light, and the quiet become the event.
Concept
The Architectural Idea
Chennai apartments are often designed to look full. We designed this one to feel spacious. Every storage element is concealed. Every surface is either natural or neutral. We chose materials that improve with age — brass that will patina, plaster that breathes, cotton and cane that soften over years of living. Nothing is precious. Everything is meant to be inhabited deeply.
Photography
Materials
Material
Palette
Unlacquered Brass
Hardware and fixtures designed to patina naturally
Indian Cotton
Handwoven upholstery and window treatments from Kanchipuram
Honed Indian Marble
Rajasthani marble surfaces, matte-finished
Natural Cane
Woven screens, headboards, and pendant shades
Interior Photography
Project Team
Principal Architect
Yazhini
Interior Lead
Design Team
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