This House Has No Front Door

ByMyProperty Life

Every house begins at the front door. This one doesn’t.

At the Alarine Earth Home in Kerala, India, we walk beneath a canopy of solar panels and arrive directly in the open living space. There is no conventional entrance hall and no clear moment when the garden ends and the house begins.

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Designed by Zarine Jamshedji Architects, the home was kept low so it would not block the rice field from the neighbors living behind it. A roof planted with vetiver grass continues the landscape, while a column-free covered patio keeps the field completely open to view.

Behind its earthy walls is a fast, industrialized construction system completed with a handcrafted finish made from discarded laterite paste. An old pump-house base became garden seating, and an existing ditch was expanded into a reservoir for collecting water.

This is a home shaped not by one dramatic sustainable feature, but by a series of practical choices involving sunlight, water, reused materials, animals, neighbors, and the landscape itself.

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Architecture: Zarine Jamshedji Architects
Design: Ar.Zarine Hoshang Jamshedji, Ar.Abhishek Suthan, Surya Narayanan
Structural Concept: Cornelis Alan Beuke
Supervision: Zarine Hoshang Jamshedji, Cornelis Alan Beuke, Navin Limbani
Draft Management Coordination: Surya Narayanan, Sarah Janet Augustin
Team: Zarine Jamshedji, Cornelis Alan Beuke, Abhishek Suthan, Suryanarayan, Sarah Agustin, Ratheesh Balan, Anu Joseph.
Location: Kochi, India
Year: 2023
Area: 380 sqm
Photography: Shyam Sreeshylam, Shiv Kumar

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