Debashis’s brief for this 6,000 sq.ft home in Anandangar, Maheshtala, combined commercial and residential in one structure: the ground floor built as commercial storage and office space, with the first and second floors designed as a home for two brothers — the younger brother’s family on the first floor, the elder brother’s on the second.

The house speaks a language of brutalism grounded in critical vernacular regionalism, built in rat trap bond — a 10″ wall technique whose internal air cavity keeps the home naturally cool through Kolkata’s summers.

Its signature feature is a double-height parametric jali in red clay brick on the southern façade, filtering harsh light and channeling cross-ventilation — turning a climate response into the house’s defining architectural identity.

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