Founding Partner · Design
Aysha Rahman
Trained at CEPT. Concerned with how a building greets the morning — the first half-hour of light is, to her, the brief.
Architects · 2014
Architects · 2014
3shade — three partners, three shades of shelter. We work between Kozhikode and the Kerala coast, with hands kept close to drawing, model and stone.
Trained at CEPT. Concerned with how a building greets the morning — the first half-hour of light is, to her, the brief.
Carpenter before architect. Holds the studio's relationship with mason, foundryman and millwork — a practice of patience and precise hands.
Landscape and water. Studied in Bengaluru and Kyoto. Believes a building's most honest line is the one drawn by its garden over thirty years.
We build for the slow life of a place — for the monsoon to find its course, the stone to weather, and the family inside to grow quiet around it.
A drafting room that smells of teak shavings and printer ink. A library, a model shop, a long table for eight. A jackfruit tree at the window.
Every project starts with a season on the land — listening to wind, water and light before any line is drawn.
Laterite, lime, kadappa, teak. We work with a palette small enough to truly understand.
Drawings on paper, models in card and clay. The screen is a tool — never the author.
Our masons and carpenters live within an hour of the studio. Every commission strengthens that circle.
No more. The pace is the practice.
Three partners, one room, one drafting table. First commission — a mason's house in Beypore.
Casa Veranda in Wayanad — published in Domus India and the studio's first exhibition at the Kochi Biennale fringe.
A second floor, a library, a model shop, and the first millwork in our own hands.
A residence drawn around the late afternoon — featured by ArchDaily and shortlisted for the AR Emerging Architecture awards.
Four projects in design. A long-form book on Kerala laterite, in writing.