House Of Revival
Sector
Residential
Location
Anjuna, Goa
Year
2025
Tucked within the quieter bylanes of Anjuna, Kapok House unfolds as a careful act of revival. Originally a modest, 60-year-old Indo-Portuguese home, the structure has been reimagined as a four-bedroom luxury homestay through a series of precise interventions
a former kitchen converted into a bedroom, a verandah was absorbed as the new kitchen, and a service-heavy toilet block was consolidated into a habitable room.
The house retains its Indo-Portuguese essence without veering into nostalgia. The roof emerges as a defining gesture, reworked from a singular sloping plane into a three-tiered, stepped silhouette that lends the façade a fresh vision, anchored by an extended balcao stretching across the length of the home. Thick laterite walls are largely preserved, with openings carefully widened and supplemented by skylights to bring in soft, diffused daylight. Mangalore-tiled sloping roofs, and timber elements in teak and cane. Beige acts as the base, while terracotta and wood introduce warmth and depth.
Here landscape shapes the first and most lasting impression. The approach is intentionally layered, revealing itself in fragments rather than all at once. A towering kapok tree, over a century old, anchors the site, its presence both immediate and enigmatic. A treehouse sits lightly within its branches, visible from the threshold, setting up a sense of curiosity.
Movement through the site is less about arrival and more about gradual discovery: a pool edged in terracotta tones appears in glimpses, animated by a suspended swing that invites pause as much as play; built-in seating slips into the water, creating spaces that hover between immersion and rest.
Outdoor elements are conceived as lived spaces.
The poolside snooker room seen here is a zero cement structure built using mud excavated from the swimming pool. This structure features mud and bamboo construction with a lime flooring and thatched roof on a wooden truss. Teak wood door frames complement the lime and mud plaster used for the walls.
The villa being a load bearing structure with small openings, we had to navigate through the 2-feet thick laterite stone walls to make for larger openings as and where possible. Our prime focus was in letting more natural light in through larger doors, windows or skylights.
As seen here, the dining area pairs lime plastered walls with distressed furniture surrounded by a carpet of terracotta tiles. A spiral wooden staircase with a glass ceiling leads up to the terrace lounge.
Lime washed walls, terracotta and beige flooring, accompanied by wooden rafters on the sloped roof.. Floral prints come alive with sunlight pouring in through the window, creating an interesting play of light.. These are some of the details that make up the living room at this luxurious house of revival.
