The Invisible Home: How Contextual Design Merges Architecture with Nature | Parametric Design Studio & Shrutika Raut Design Studio

This hill home in Nasik dissolves into its landscape, balancing raw materiality with contextual sensitivity. Perched within the rugged topography of Grape County Biodiversity Park, this residence by architect Shoeb Shaikh of Parametric Design Studio and interior designer Shrutika Raut exemplifies how architecture can yield to nature without losing its identity. The site’s steep slopes, a high plateau, and a functional helipad posed significant design challenges. With limited buildable land, the team envisioned a structure that would merge with the contours rather than rise above them. The result is an earth-bermed home—embedded into the slope, roofed with a living garden, […]