The Kanchipuram House

The Kanchipuram House is quite a unique home designed by Uncut Design Lab, Chennai. The house follows a typical row house style, with shared walls on both sides. The dimensions of the available space are 20' x 120', with a majority of the 120' not allowing for windows. The architects counteracted this by punching skylights into every affected room, flooding the whole house with beautiful natural light. As the residents of the house were older adults, the house has no steps, a centralised kitchen, supports in the bathrooms and a traditional style of design mixed with modern sensibilities. Traditional Chettinad wooden pillars, beautiful athanguadi tiles, and antique furniture share the space with laterite walls and red oxide thinnais (or a traditional sitting space at the entrance to the home). All this is usually found in houses built at ground level, but this house is actually on the 2nd floor of the building.