Grounded

Grounded Architects and Developers. We sell earthy luxury homes in Goa, rooted in sound architectural & susta

At Grounded, we are an award-winning team of architects turned property developers. Guided by sustainable practices, we build in harmony with nature and strive for architectural excellence. Our new projects Navovado and Terrace Houses are now available for sale. For Inquiries, email us at [email protected]

For more information, please refer to our website, www.buildgrounded.com

Our first p

roject, Nivim is an award winning residence in Goa. Nivim is the first green certified residential building in Goa and was published in the Wall Street Journal in 08/07/13. http://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2013/08/08/a-house-in-harmony-with-nature/tab/slideshow/ /1

Baobab House, a home that began with a question: What if the architecture grew from the land it sits on?Bricks pulled fr...
19/06/2026

Baobab House, a home that began with a question: What if the architecture grew from the land it sits on?

Bricks pulled from nearby quarries.
Brick laid by hand into a vault that breathes.
Mosaic set shard by shard — cobalt, silver, gold —
following curves no machine drew.

This is not a house that announces itself.
It earns you.

The porthole finds the tree.
The vault frames the sky.
The stone remembers the earth it came from.

We called it Crescent House, because the plan curves, the facade curves, and so does your eye when you look at it.The si...
29/05/2026

We called it Crescent House, because the plan curves, the facade curves, and so does your eye when you look at it.

The site had a boulder field, a 50-year-old tree, and a hill behind it. We kept all three.
The house wraps around them. Not the other way around.

Red brick laid without plaster. A jali of protruding courses for ventilation and shadow play. Concrete that bows in and out. Large glass panels that frame the Nandi Hills on one side, and a courtyard of retained boulders on the other.

Inside: lime-washed walls, dark stone floors, wood, and light that moves through the house like a slow clock.

This is what we mean by grounded.

Woodbine IIA house that began as a question: what if you built around what's already there?The rock doesn't move. The tr...
15/05/2026

Woodbine II

A house that began as a question: what if you built around what's already there?

The rock doesn't move. The tree stays. The view frames itself.

Brick, concrete, sky. A porthole that turns a wall into a moment.
A corridor that asks you to slow down.
A stairwell that holds light like a chapel.

This is architecture as restraint,
not adding but listening.

Woodbine II - A house that began as a question: what if you built around what's already there?The rock doesn't move, the...
15/05/2026

Woodbine II - A house that began as a question: what if you built around what's already there?

The rock doesn't move, the tree stays, the view frames itself.

Brick, concrete, sky.
A porthole that turns a wall into a moment.
A corridor that asks you to slow down.
A stairwell that holds light like a chapel.

This is architecture as restraint - not adding but listening.

Most buildings announce themselves; this one is still learning to breathe.Bricks stacked, concrete holding the memory of...
08/05/2026

Most buildings announce themselves; this one is still learning to breathe.
Bricks stacked, concrete holding the memory of its formwork. A vault that hasn't been named yet.
We are somewhere in Bengaluru, the messy site but the idea is not.

This is what architecture looks like before it becomes architecture. Save this and we will show you what it becomes.

See how a wall becomes a painting. We took our time to design and build these walls on site. Not because we were slow, b...
01/05/2026

See how a wall becomes a painting.

We took our time to design and build these walls on site. Not because we were slow, because earth doesn't rush. Layer by layer, white, black + red, deep red, brown, each colour mixed by hand. Each wave poured and manually rammed. When the formwork finally came off, this is what was waiting inside.

This is the extension block of our Aldona Restoration House. A 160-year-old Indo-Portuguese home getting new bones. Built the same way the earth beneath it was made, slowly, in layers, over time.

We didn't build Toybox. We listened to it. A 160-year-old Indo-Portuguese house in Aldona told us what it wanted to be, ...
24/04/2026

We didn't build Toybox. We listened to it. A 160-year-old Indo-Portuguese house in Aldona told us what it wanted to be, and we went out of the way to hear it.

What's left is something rare: a home where the old and new don't fight. They dance.

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Photo credits - Sanjeet Wahi,

Crescent House, Nandi Hills. Months of collaboration, iterations, and trust now sit quietly in these walls.At some point...
16/04/2026

Crescent House, Nandi Hills. Months of collaboration, iterations, and trust now sit quietly in these walls.

At some point, the conversation shifts, from what a space will look like to how it will feel. That is when it becomes real.

Crescent House is almost there. The vault stands, the staircase moves as it was meant to, and light from the circular skylight traces the walls through the day. Even in its unfinished state, the house already feels calm and complete.

Every decision was shaped with a client who gave us what matters most: time and belief.

We are finishing. Not just the building, but the thought.

Rammed earth, layers of soil, compressed by hand and machine into walls, is the material we chose for this project. It i...
28/03/2026

Rammed earth, layers of soil, compressed by hand and machine into walls, is the material we chose for this project. It is our first completed rammed earth build, and to say we are in love with it is an understatement.

The strata left by the formwork panels are not imperfections. They are the record of how the wall was made. Each horizontal line is a layer rammed into the one below it. The wall is, in a sense, its own construction drawing.

Inside, the rooms are quiet in a way that is hard to explain. The walls hold heat differently. The air feels different. There is a quality to rammed earth interiors that you have to experience, something between solidity and warmth.

The clients are both designers. They understood this material before a single wall was cast. This house was always going to be this.

Nearing completion. Aldona, North Goa.

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