Pagoda Cottages

A brick cottage under sweeping pagoda roofs, set on a rubble slope against a blue sky

Location: Pyramid Valley, Kanakapura Road, Bengaluru
Type: Spiritual

Brick cottages beneath curved pagoda roofs, set among quiet gardens.

Paired blocks in exposed brick, separated by landscaped gardens, with pagoda roofs, deep verandahs and windows that frame the pyramid. The pagoda tradition is reinterpreted in a contemporary, quiet language, as simple as the site demands.

The cottages were featured in Architecture Update, November 2013.

Brick pagoda cottages and stepping-stone paths, with a carved stone cottage sign

The court between two cottages: stepping stones, white pebbles and the pyramid beyond

Layered terracotta roofs and brick piers of a cottage

A pagoda-roofed cottage with stone steps and flowering shrubs

A cottage with curved pagoda eaves behind a flowering tree

A cottage's deep verandah beneath a large tree

The cottages on the hillside among eucalyptus trees

Inside a cottage: exposed brick, a stone floor and a low water basin

A double-height brick room with a steel truss roof and jaali clerestory

Exposed brick and a full-height window beneath a deep verandah

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