The idea of living in a vibrant, organic habitat is an increasingly realistic prospect as living technologies are now being designed to counter the ravages of global industrialization.

We present Chittar Manor as a means to perpetuate this sublime idea. 48 functionally designed homes on the verdant banks of River Chittar at Kanjirapally, Kerala.

Here we find nature dwarfing everything else. The tempered light of the woods is like a perpetual morning, and that is stimulating. The stems of the trees of the plantations gleam like iron on the excited eye. The Incommunicable trees seem to persuade us to live with them, far from the madding crowd and our solemn trifles. How easily we might walk onward into the opening landscape, absorbed by the pictures, and by thoughts fast succeeding on another, until all memory is obliterated by the beauty of the present, and we are led purely in triumph by nature.