The client approached Hubli-based architecture practice WorkLounge to design a home that could serve as a retreat. He also envisioned it as his primary residence. He envisioned the home as a shared space for himself, his mother and their dog. The project evolved into a dwelling where nature becomes a recurring motif across the architecture and interiors. Antara Residence engages in a continuous dialogue with its setting. It balances timeless earthiness with contemporary lightness to create spaces that feel meticulous and restrained.
A Two-Storey Home in Bangalore Where Nature Flows Through Every Living Space | Work Lounge
The 4,500 sq ft, two-storey home sits in a residential enclave in North Bangalore, overlooking verdant surroundings. The client wanted a quintessential front garden for the home. The architects interpreted this intent more holistically by drawing the landscape deep into the living experience. The home unfolds as a play of volumes that spill into interspersed pockets of landscape. These green pockets become integral parts of the living system.
The home’s form serves the landscape through a composition of earthy brick and polished cement portals. Barragán-esque frames modulate privacy across different spaces. They also reveal deeper vistas of the internal greens. Built masses open into generous porches and deep verandahs that extend gently into the site’s landscape, softening the threshold between architecture and nature and making the most of the city’s salubrious climate. Expansive glazing and projecting balconies carry this gesture onto the first floor, opening the living spaces to light, breeze and vistas.
Building on these cues, the interiors approach biomimicry not as literal imitation but as a deeper design philosophy, drawing on the compositions of ground, vegetation, and sky — and recreating them indoors.
One enters into a stepped-down, generous double-height living space that spills onto one of the home’s internal landscaped pockets. Floor-to-ceiling glazing and a playful skylight etched with nature-inspired motifs cast shifting puddles of light onto the striking yellow Jaisalmer stone flooring, bringing in the dynamism of the outdoors.
The stone was selected with the canine member of the family in mind, offering durability and a firm grip. The adjoining garden inspired a desaturated wallpaper patterned with vegetal motifs. The remaining finishes stay subdued to maintain a calm visual balance. This restraint allows the yellow tones and the landscape beyond to remain the focus.
A singular flight of stairs forms the sculptural fulcrum of the home engineered around a steel spine with timber treads and framed by a striking composition of handrails — one anchored to the floor and another suspended from the ceiling. Fine steel balustrades threaded with wooden beads introduce a note of Indian craft and detail against the otherwise contemporary composition.
From here, the home shifts in scale, transitioning from the openness of the living space to more controlled volumes in the dining and kitchen areas, modulating according to function. The team planned the open kitchen to support both practical construction and long-term use. They built it on site to minimise the joints typically visible in modular assemblies. A large custom-designed timber table anchors the dining area. Above it, a simple yet striking suspended light fixture completes the setting.
At the upper level, a large lounge doubles as a home theatre when required. Unlike the conventional approach of enclosing such spaces within solid walls for acoustic control, the room is conceived as a fully glazed volume with operable openings. To achieve this, the architects developed a glazing system engineered for acoustic performance, allowing the space to shift seamlessly between openness and enclosure depending on use. Echoing the home’s biomimetic principles, textured flooring grounds the interior, while blackout and sheer curtains modulate light and privacy through the day. Above, a muted ceiling plane is interrupted by a circular cut-out that breaks the otherwise rectilinear language of the home. A sculptural suspended light fixture and contemporary furnishings complete the space.
This calibrated relationship between landscape and interiority continues into the private spaces. The primary bedrooms are located one above the other at the south-west corner of the plot, strategically positioned between a garden pocket on one side and a rear garden on the other. This ensures that both rooms open out to light and landscape on either side, strengthening their connection to the site.
Material palettes and finishes within these rooms draw directly from their surrounding context. Designed as soft backdrops to everyday living, the ground-floor bedroom pairs a muted green backdrop and subtle fluted detailing while grey tiled flooring with pops of colour and pattern frame a custom-designed timber bed. Its rattan woven headboard curves gently into a cocooning gesture around the bed. The remaining finishes are kept pared back and contemporary, allowing the views beyond to remain in focus.
In the bedroom above, the same intent continues with yellow Kota flooring selected for both earthiness and durability. To temper the larger volume of the room, a singular greyish-brown tone extends from the wall panelling onto the false ceiling, visually unifying and humanising the space. Custom-designed contemporary furnishings and light fixtures animate the room, lending it a sense of lightness.
Across the home, architecture, interiors and landscape unfold as a singular, interconnected system, each reinforcing the other. In result, Antara Residence is a home that feels grounded, where contemporary living is shaped through an immersive and nuanced relationship with nature.
Fact File
Designed by: Work Lounge
Project Type: Residential Architecture Design
Project Name: Antara Residence
Location: Bangalore
Year Built: May 2026
Project Size: 4500 Sq.ft
Principal Architects: Suhaasini Hangal, Sainath Urankar & Vishal Abani
Team: Suhaasini Hangal, Sainath Urankar, Vishal Abani (Co-Founders), Siddharamesh H (Associate Architect), Uday Kabade, Alveera Nadaf, Tousif Dafedar, Ramnarian (Project Architects)
Photograph Courtesy: Studio Rasa
Collaborators/Vendors: Livable Furnitures, Kannasu Furniture Studio,Bandson’s Windows, Syngen Automation, Prism Lights.
Firm’s Instagram Link: Work Lounge
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