A farmland house named for its front roof — a single sleek, wide terracotta plane that reads like a paper plane skimming over the verandah and the coconut grove.
Paper Plane House takes its name from the front roof: one sleek, wide terracotta plane, folded and tilted so it reads like a paper plane skimming low over the verandah. Lifted on slender steel struts and set by the pitch of the land and the path of the sun, it draws the rooms out toward the Pudukottai coconut grove.
The material palette is warm and handmade — oxide flooring, Athangudi tiles and Kota stone underfoot, with a courtyard skylight of glass-terracotta tiles that throws amber and cobalt light down the double-height stair hall. Steel, timber and clay jali are chosen to serve that geometry, holding the plane aloft and letting light do the rest.
