Penthouse Residence

Elevated above the commercial world below, the Abhilash Joseph penthouse by Common Ground Architecture performs a quiet act of defiance - insisting on earth, memory, and sky. Occupying the topmost floor of a mixed-use building in Malaparambu, the residence is designed as a Kerala home, warm, green, and unhurried, that simply happens to be in the sky.

Our documentation captures this elevated shelter. A long glass corridor is bordered by a terrace garden pressing its heliconia and creeping plants against the glass. At its heart, the pitched timber ceiling recalls the sloped, wood-lined roofscapes of Kerala’s domestic vernacular, translated upward without irony.