Architecture practice · Bengaluru · est. 2015
Aangan
आँगन
We build around the courtyard — the part of a house that is not a room, and the part everybody remembers.
Move the cursor — the drawing gives way to the building
Scroll01 The idea
Every house we have ever loved had a hole in the middle of it. A courtyard is not wasted floor area. It is where the building breathes — where the light arrives without a window, where the rain is allowed in, and where a family ends up sitting for thirty years without ever being told to.
We are six people. We take four projects a year and we draw all of them by hand first.
— Aangan, Bengaluru
02 Selected work
2021 — 2024 · a sample portfolio
03 Materials
Three things,
and the light on them.
Board-formed concrete
Cast against sawn teak so the grain stays in the wall. It records the shuttering, and then it records the sun.
Lime and Kota
Breathable, local, and cooler than anything sealed. It ages the way the people living with it do.
Teak screen
A jaali by another name. It turns a hard south light into something you can sit under all afternoon.
04 The practice
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Aangan began in a Malleswaram outhouse in 2015 with two drawing boards and a shared plotter. We have stayed small on purpose: everything that leaves this studio has been drawn, argued over and detailed by the people who will also stand on the site while it is poured.
We work mostly in Karnataka and along the west coast, in climates that punish sealed buildings. So we do not seal them. We shade, we cross-vent, we leave a hole in the middle, and we let the plan follow the air.
- Residences
- Studios & workspaces
- Institutional
- Adaptive reuse
- Interiors
05 Questions
What people ask
before they call.
01What kind of architecture practice is Aangan?
A six-person practice in Malleswaram, Bengaluru, founded in 2015. We design residences, studios and workspaces, institutional buildings, adaptive reuse projects and interiors — all planned around a courtyard rather than a corridor.
02Where are you based, and where do you build?
The studio is at 4th Cross, Malleswaram, Bengaluru 560003. We work mostly across Karnataka and along the west coast, with completed buildings in Bengaluru, Mysuru, Coorg, Chennai and Alibaug.
03Why does every project have a courtyard?
Because a courtyard is not wasted floor area. It lets light arrive without a window, lets the rain in, and drives the cross-ventilation that keeps a house cool without sealing it. In a climate that punishes sealed buildings, the open court does the work an air conditioner otherwise would.
04What materials do you build in?
Three, mostly. Board-formed concrete cast against sawn teak, so the grain stays in the wall. Lime plaster and Kota stone — breathable, local, and cooler than anything sealed. And teak screens, a jaali by another name, which turn a hard south light into shade you can sit under all afternoon.
05How many projects do you take on a year?
Four. We have stayed six people on purpose, have finished 34 buildings in eleven years, and keep three on the boards at a time. Everything is drawn by hand first, and detailed by the same people who stand on site during the pour.
06How do I start a project with you?
Write to studio@webstoree.com or call +91 89815 64862. Send the site location, the rough built-up area you have in mind, and when you would like to start. First conversations happen at the studio in Malleswaram, or on the site itself.
06 Contact