A residence celebrates intermediate spaces, layered cantilevers, exposed brick, and crafted materiality. Together, these elements create shaded terraces that reinterpret the Indian home for a modern climate. Set within the urban fabric of Amravati, Maharashtra, this contemporary residence balances bold architectural expression with restrained interior elegance.
From the street, the composition appears as a stack of deep, overlapping planes. Cantilevered decks extend from the facade, one above the other. Each deck receives shade from the projection above it. It is a house built on the logic of shelter and shadow, translated into contemporary architectural language.
Amravati Residence Turns Cantilevered Terraces Into Layers Of Shade | Nord 360 Studio
The facade features a series of dramatic cantilevered balconies, stacked and staggered across three levels. Each balcony projects further into the streetscape than a conventional balcony. The topmost deck makes the boldest statement. A wide pergola-balcony crowns the roof level, enclosed by slatted vertical screens. An oversized roof plane shades the deck and shelters the levels below, much like the eaves of a traditional veranda.
What keeps this cantilevered massing from feeling heavy is the material palette. The facade uses warm, weathered red exposed brickwork with restraint, concentrating it into vertical piers. The remaining wall planes feature cool grey stone-clad tiles.
A custom mild steel and glass railing system frames each deck. Slender black steel arches repeat rhythmically along the balconies. Clear glass panels maintain uninterrupted views and allow natural light to enter. The railings avoid the visual weight of solid parapets. They also create a strong graphic silhouette against the sky. On the upper terrace, slim vertical steel louvres support climbing greens. This transforms a functional balustrade into a planted screen.
From the street, the home feels both monumental and porous, with solid brick and stone grounding the structure. Steel, glass, and greenery bring openness to every level.
The main entry is announced by a pair of dark, geometrically screened doors set into a full-height brick surround. A brick boundary wall, echoing the material of the facade, extends this language out to the street edge, so that the compound wall doesn’t feel like an afterthought but a continuation of the architecture itself
Step past the entry and the material language shifts entirely. Where the exterior speaks in brick and steel, the interiors settle into a soft, pastel-driven palette — warm greys, muted taupe, oat, and stone tones that let texture, rather than colour, do the talking.
Marble, Warmth, and Scale The double-height living room continues the material dialogue established outside — book-matched beige and grey marble feature wall. A row of round decorative screens punctuates the upper wall in a playful, rhythmic repeat, borrowing the same geometric sensibility as the exterior’s brick Jaali, translated into a lighter, more ornamental register.
What makes this Amravati residence compelling isn’t any single gesture — it’s the way the design commits to contrast at every scale. Brick against stone on the outside. Steel against glass on the balconies. Pastel softness against sculptural stone inside. A circular stair against a rectilinear plan. Even the courtyard plays this game, pairing rough carved stone with living, growing green.
It is architecture that understands restraint as much as it understands drama — cantilevering boldly into the street, then retreating into quiet, tactile interiors that reward slow living. A bungalow, in the end, that treats every level, every threshold, and every material transition as worth designing properly.
Spiraling down through a full-height void, black wrought-iron balustrade wind around a clean marble-clad core, capped by a suspended cluster of faceted glass and brass pendant lights that drop through the stairwell like a chandelier in motion. Photographed from above, the staircase reveals itself as a near-perfect nautilus — each floor’s balustrade tracing a slightly tighter arc than the one above it, drawing the eye all the way down toa potted topiary at the base.
The primary bedroom is anchored by an elegant landscape mural-inspired headboard composition, framed with soft architectural moldings and accent wall lights. Nature-inspired artwork introduces warmth while maintaining visual simplicity.
Another bedroom Here, a fluted grey accent wall is paired with a smooth wood-paneled backdrop housing a tall, pill-shaped niche with delicate botanical artwork. The room is bathed in natural light filtering through sheer drapes, highlighting the wavy, contemporary patterns of the textiles and the curated seating.
A third, Pushing the boundaries of the pastel theme, one of the private suites introduces a bold, illuminated rough-stone niche directly above the bed. The wood paneling wraps seamlessly from the wall into the slanted ceiling, while a smooth, organicshaped pendant light and crisp, grooved doors complete the sophisticated, earthy aesthetic.
Highlights a sculptural, avant-garde black armchair paired with a woven rattan floor lamp. This cozy vignette sits beside a floor-to-ceiling window that frames a lush vertical garden, blurring the lines between the interior haven and the natural world outside.
At the heart of the plan sits a double-height internal courtyard, glazed to the sky and anchored by a dramatic carved stone art panel — a bas-relief mural rising the full height of the space, its motifs drawn from classical figurative and botanical forms. Below it, a living vertical green wall softens the stone backdrop with a dense, irregular tapestry of trailing plants, ferns, and foliage, watered and lit to thrive indoors.
This courtyard is furnished as a genuine pause space rather than a passage — a sculptural boucle armchair with a matching rattan floor lamp, a small stone side table, and a round jute rug, all catching the filtered daylight from the skylight above. It’s the kind of space that makes the whole house feel larger than its footprint: a private garden folded into the section of the building.
Fact File
Designed by: Nord 360 Studio
Project Type: Residential Architecture Design
Project Name: Antara House
Location: Amravati, Maharashtra
Year Built: 2025
Duration of the project: 2023-2025
Built-up Area: 7185 Sq.ft.
Principal Architect: Ar. Aadish Mehta & Ar. Tejas Patil
Photograph Courtesy: whatweclick
Firm’s Instagram Link: Nord 360 Studio
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