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Beat the Heat: 7 Cool Homes That Tackle the Blazing Indian Summer

Due to climate change, summers blaze extra hot this year, underscoring many monstrous dealings between structures and ecology. Cooling off, here are a few sustainably designed homes that become a guide for summer-ready homes.

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Inside Out: This 2,874 sq. ft. Kerala Home Plays an Intermediary to Hustle and Calm

This home boasting wooden accents and reclaimed elements dons a cap of sustainability, emerging into an ethereal world that whispers stories of the past alongside a blooming view.

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Dear Earth, Happy Mother’s Day! 5 Homes That Worship Their Roots by Celebrating Mother Nature

Mother’s Day is one day of the year when a mother’s boundless and perpetual necessity is recognized. This year, Buildofy recognizes Mother Nature’s necessity, narrating tales of homes that equally respect the wishes of their often-overlooked creator.

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Garden of Regality: A 17,500 sq. ft. Home Transcends Boundaries To Peck Nature

This home in the heart of the city, paradoxically stands under the lush shade of the previously planted trees. Following their lead, the home too, incorporates gardens and vantage points in its luxe sanctum.

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Coquetting With the Waves: A Chennai Home Writes Love Letters About Its Regional Designs

This home takes notes on Chennai’s indigenous architecture and embodies its fluid characteristics while altering it to fit the family’s flourishing needs.

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These 6 Homes with Heritage Artforms Explore the Theme of Regional Belonging

In Indian homes, art pieces not only pay homage to the family's regional roots but also infuse emotions in each space. Discover Buildofy’s art archival, which colour is the house in shades of heritage and regionalism.

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Unprocessed Utopia: A 3,800 sq. ft. Home Satiates a Family’s Wishes for All things Recycled and Unprocessed

Away from the city, a residence emerges with ingredients recycled and upcycled to make a perfect recipe that matches the family’s ecological tastes.

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This Shipping Container in Pune Becomes the Owners Debut Home in the Mountains

Indigenous techniques and innovation have been the captain, sailing the sustainable cruise. This home too, quite literally rides the eco-conscious design wave employing retained materials.

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Makeover Memos: A Home in Bengaluru is Reincarnated from its Old Self with a Hint of Balinese Swank

The residence’s renovation started with a trivial confusion but reached the top with neutral-hued spaces, tropical style décor, and nuances of Indian craftsmanship.

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This Home in Maharashtra is: Of the Earth, By the Earth, For the Earth

Sustainability has peaked since climate change symptoms are visible to the populaces. Thus, this home with its ingenious techniques and natural décor, sitting amidst a lush setting, becomes a crusader for ‘saving the planet’.

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This 4,200 sq. ft. Home Corroborates with the Materials and Techniques of the Past to Curate a Warm Habitat

Brick is a material that, when exposed by default, is attached to one name; the celebrated architect Laurie Baker. This home too, with its minimal palette of materials and airy spaces, balances modern and traditional styles while referencing the Gandhi of architecture.

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When Kerala Meets Chennai: A Home That Travels an Extra Mile for Sustainability

In an effort to materialize the sustainable influence of Kerala architecture, Srishti is drenched in the piquancy of ‘God’s own country’. With undulations, courtyards, and wooden accents it sits in the heart of the bustling city of Chennai.

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Canopy Chronicles: A Home Balancing Minimalism with the Aid of Volumes

Aptly christened as ‘Canopy House’, this home is a perfect blend of minimalism and subtle opulence. It features volumes and overhangs, dictated by the natural surroundings according to their convenience.

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Blooming Romances: A Home that Flirts with Its Surroundings while/and Becoming One with Them

Exposed brick and concrete paired with glass when set against pockets of blooming verdant gardens, conspire the formation of the House with Gardens of North-East-South.

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World Mother Tongue Day: 5 Homes that Bridge the Gap Between Verbal and Architectural Language

With changing times, the language barrier is becoming a rather trivial discomfort in the larger narrative. Keeping in trend with this crusade, Buildofy pins its ears back to its archives to spotlight homes with a language besides English.

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This 7,000 sq. ft. Delhi Home Breathes Life into the Fitzgerald’s Fictional Masterpiece

Looking back to the past referencing the classic masterpiece, ‘The Great Gatsby’, and its lavish Art Deco style, this residence alters the portrayal of luxury to fit the residents’ definition, beaming toward a timeless character.

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This 1,600 sq. ft. Home in Noida is Made Using only Lime and Mud

Traditional mud houses have lost their relevance in the modern-day, while chasing aesthetics and rapid construction techniques. Mud Showcase House is a playful and at times, conventional and ingenious take on the traditional mud houses.

Traditional Homes

A Farmhouse on the Outskirts of Hyderabad is a Tranquil Getaway for Six Families

This contemporary farmhouse shows signs of life while taking cues from the traditional Manduva Houses. Maintaining perfect harmony with its natural surroundings, while flaunting a minimalistic design, it emerges as a larger-than-life extension of the already existing farmhouse.

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National Geographic Day: 5 Homes that Write Love Letters to the Natural Geography Through Indigenous Local Techniques

Native construction techniques paired with locally sourced materials make for a sustainable alliance that bequeaths back to nature as much as it procures from it. Let's journey through five homes from Buildofy’s archives that exemplify a reciprocal relationship with abundance around.

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This 1000 sq. ft. renovated home in Bengaluru is a modern haven of luxury and minimalism

This residence serves as a tribute to the client’s mother and is also designed to provide a sense of comfort and warmth to his wife and son, who spent much of their time in Muscat and now relocated to India.

Eco Friendly Homes

Green Roof, Local Material, and Blurred Boundaries Assemble in this Kerala Home

Eco-consciousness is a basic necessity in today’s dire times. Knowing this, the architects designed an eco-friendly home in Kerala that respects its surroundings.

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5 Young Architecture Firms in the Design Space Captured by Buildofy in 2023

In commemoration of Swami Vivekananda’s birthday, a celebrated youth icon, Buildofy scours through its archives to find young architecture firms that are making a difference.

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Pieces of Art and Pops of Colours Is the Perfectly Handcrafted Recipe for this Bengaluru Home

With heirlooms passed down through generations and traditional South Indian elements, this home reflects its residents’ personalities. Handcrafted Athangudi tiles and locally painted artworks set the trend for the spaces that unfold.

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2023: 5 Courtyard Houses That Stand the Test of Time

Courtyards have been around for centuries, providing respite from the harsh weather conditions but in modern times, they still reign high, as a testament to sustainability. Let’s take a walk down memory lane to revisit the new-age courtyard homes that serve as a feature celebrating Indian heritage.

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2023: 10 Most Watched Home Tours on Buildofy

From ultra-luxury modern residences to modest homes honoring the essence of Indianness, a tapestry of homes was under the lens this year. Buildofy sneaks a peek at its archives for the homes that were the showstoppers of 2023.