Inspired by Portuguese monasteries and the nostalgic essence of Indian lifestyle, the 21,000 sq ft villa unfolds into a labyrinthine celebration of transitional spaces, textures, and views. In print and online, the cover feature captures the timeless reverie of the Villa: landscape as its heartbeat, light and shade as the rhythm.
Offering sweeping views of the Arabian Sea, the 8,500 sq ft home embraces natural textures, warm wood, and seamless transitions across five bedrooms, a sculptural staircase, and a book-lined library at its heart. Every space, shaped by the family’s collective and individual tastes, invites presence and pause in a city that never sleeps.
Conceived as one with the landscape, the villa’s arch forms, sunlit interiors, and tactile materials animate in a slow, immersive rhythm where time seems to stop. Its gentle curvature, water features, and graceful surface compositions, make it a serene retreat and perfect getaway for all seasons.
Architecture BRIO has won the invited design competition for EKYA, an innovative IB school in Central Goa, emphasizing community and connection through its unique layout. The design integrates nature with dynamic spaces, creating a sustainable and inspiring environment for learning.
A 120-room luxury resort near Kaziranga immerses guests in rewilded landscapes of grasslands, wetlands, and ponds, offering close encounters with nature and wildlife. This amoeba shaped hotel embodies a sensitive and forward-thinking approach, where luxury meets ecological responsibility.
Architecture BRIO is excited to unveil its latest endeavor: a luxury boutique resort nestled in one of Sikkim’s most pristine forest landscapes. The design aims to foster a harmonious relationship between guests and the forest, allowing them to connect with the natural world in ways both intimate and awe-inspiring.
Robert Verrijt lectures at the ANAKATA Festival, an annual architecture and design festival in Jakarta where speakers come together to share innovative ideas. The theme this year is “Nostalgic Architecture”. 11 Architects from five different countries, recall the past, present and future moments.
We are excited to share that Architecture BRIO has been featured in Scale Magazine in an insightful article titled “Architecture as a Backdrop to Life”. The piece delves into our design philosophy, where architecture is envisioned not as a celebrated object but as a frame through which to harmoniously experience nature and everyday life.
Exciting design work begins for a nature retreat in Belgium! A cozy getaway set amidst Ardennes’ forests. The project site is located in the close proximity to the center of the historic Bouillon, which attracts visitors with its medieval castle, stone-covered heritage architecture and the winding river of Semois.
Nestled in the breathtaking coastal town of Alibag, The Ray takes center stage in the latest edition of The South China Morning Post’s Sunday culture magazine, “Post Magazine.” With its timeless elegance, “The Ray” embodies the perfect blend of natural luxury and serenity.
We are proud to announce that BillionBricks Homes / powerHYDE has been selected as one of the 5 finalists in the Houses category of ArchDaily’s Building of the Year 2022 Awards!
We have expanded to Europe and opened a new architecture office in Rotterdam. The studio services existing projects in the Indian sub-continent and aims to establish a long-term presence to pursue further opportunities both in the Netherlands and in wider Europe. We are excited and look forward to engage with new clients in new places, and offer our international ideas to a local conversation.
We have always challenged ourselves by exposing ourselves in our work to different environments, climates and cultures. This makes our handwriting agile and makes us rethink our own conventions. It nurtures our exposure to different possibilities and evolves our way of thinking and designing. The design process for this family home for a professional and her son in the Swiss Mountains is in full swing.
The built environment has a significant role to play in addressing climate change and enabling the transition to a net zero and more inclusive future. The winning project of Billionbricks homes at The Holcim Awards for Sustainable Construction global showcases the cutting edge of approaches to sustainable design, green architecture and materials innovation.
The Etania Green School in Malaysia wins the * DESIGN OF THE YEAR 2020, at the prestigious President*s Award of Singapore. More than just a school building, the school is a learning ecosystem designed for the tens of thousands of stateless children whose parents work in the oil palm plantations of Sabah.
Today, the coronavirus has forced us to take a hard look at our cities, again. Hindustan Times reached out to urban designers and architects to re-imagine and decongest four key spaces of our lives:
a classroom, a street market, an office and a congested residential area. A look at their designs and innovations:
A column on the influence of the Coronavirus pandemic on architecture, lifestyle, work culture and the future of the architecture profession
The Etania Green School is part of the new exhibition “Sea Change: Flood Resilient Architecture for the 21st Century”. The exhibition explores how architecture has to adapt to the growing climate reality of urban flooding. through a series of projects – proposed and realised – by leading architects around the world in the field of flood resilient architecture.
The Etania Green School is part of the new exhibition “Sea Change: Flood Resilient Architecture for the 21st Century”. The exhibition explores how architecture has to adapt to the growing climate reality of urban flooding. through a series of projects – proposed and realised – by leading architects around the world in the field of flood resilient architecture.
On January 8th, 2020, the Etania Green School won the first prize in the sixth Spec Go Green International Awards 2019, a prestigious architectural award for young professionals and students of architecture in Asia encouraging a future of green building and green architecture.
On January 8th, 2020, the Etania Green School won the first prize in the sixth Spec Go Green International Awards 2019, a prestigious architectural award for young professionals and students of architecture in Asia encouraging a future of green building and green architecture.
The Mumbai Artist Retreat that is about to be completed, is poised to become a place, where artists can work in a spacious, natural environment. It allows artists to retreat from and reflect on the heavy physical and psychological demands of the global metropole. The Artist Retreat will function as a community space. It is an art lab of sorts that aims to bring together art, ecology and society.
The publication Elemental Living – Contemporary Houses in Nature highlights the shifting relationship between architecture and the natural world. Landscape is here the inspiration for architecture. Each of the 60 contemporary houses have been designed to embed themselves in, perch on, sweep across or nestle within the natural world. They all demonstrate a deep understanding of its context, but more so, they demonstrate their ability to create unique living spaces that connect their residents with the mountains, lakes, deserts, forests and oceans that they inhabit. The two houses in India designed by Architecture BRIO interact with the natural environment in very different ways….
Across the globe, architecture has had a ubiquitous and rich history of interacting with its natural surroundings. From the hanging gardens of Babylon to the verandas of colonial-era bungalows, tedious effort and time have been spent crafting designs that best allow a structure to become a part of the landscape it sits upon. Yet, modern trends often show a relatively harsh disconnect between people’s homes and the land that frames them. Architecture BRIO, rather successfully, strives to include nature in their progressive designs. Robert and Shefali manage to not only create domains that appear visually stunning but also draw on the natural benefits of a property. Simply, BRIO’s designs are delineated by playing to a given plot’s strengths.
Billion Bricks is proud to be featured in the 59th issue of Green Building, Taiwan. In this release, we present the Etania Green School project and display new pictures and insights about the project.
The school building stands on a riverside site that has a history of devastating flooding. Therefore, like much of Borneo’s vernacular architecture, the school is placed on top of decommissioned building containers. This prevents the classrooms from flooding.
Communicating ideas through drawings takes a central position in Architecture BRIO’s work. Sketching starts initially with procrastination. Taking up the pencil to start sketching is postponed as much as possible. Inspiration doesn’t come with a blank sheet. First, sketching has to happen in the mind.
Philip Jodidio features Architecture BRIO’s Riparian House in his latest publication with Taschen called “Homes for our Time”. The publication is organized by architect and brimming with crisp photography and plans. The result is a sweeping survey of the contemporary house.
Shefali Balwani lectured at the 2018 Kurula Varkey Design Forum, an annual event hosted by the Students of Architecture, since 2001 at CEPT University. This year the focus of the forum is to generate discourses on how ideas are manifested through built forms.
The ‘Riparian House’ was recently visited by Caroline and Piers who exclaimed in the India episode S02E06 of ‘The Worlds Most Extraordinary Homes’: “this house is like Marry Poppins, it’s practically perfect in every way”
BillionBricks and Architecture BRIO envision to empower Konchur (Karnataka) to turn into a Sustainable Model Village (Adarsh Gram) for New India by initiating strategic interventions and investments that are self scalable by the community. In the present day scenario, a large number of people are migrating from the village to the nearby cities in search of work, livelihood and a better quality of life. But what if this scenario is reversed in the coming years?
