Project
Hospitality — 2024
The Basalt Pavilion
The Basalt Pavilion
Fourteen guest pavilions dispersed through a working coffee estate, connected by a single covered walk.
Location
Coorg, Karnataka
Area
22,000 sq ft
Completed
2024
Category
Hospitality
Services provided
The problem
A hospitality client with 40 acres of productive estate wanted keys on the ground without a resort that reads as a compound.
Our approach
We refused the single-block hotel. Fourteen pavilions sit in existing clearings — not one coffee plant was removed — linked by a 210-metre walkway that becomes the building's only public gesture.
Floor plans
How the plan actually works
Materials
Four decisions that set the whole building
Charred cedar
Shou sugi ban cladding, termite-resistant
Basalt rubble
Plinths and retaining, from site clearance
Handloom cotton
Soft furnishing, woven 30 km away
Terracotta jaali
Bathroom ventilation screens
Before & after
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Let's build
something
that lasts
Let's build
something
that lasts
Tell us about the site, the brief and the budget. We will tell you within a week whether we are the right practice for it — and who is, if we are not.