Peacock’s Nest

Peacock’s Nest is an architectural project comprising three private residences set within a dense green landscape located two hours from Delhi. Rather than beginning with built form, the project started with an understanding of the site itself, its vegetation, informal pathways, natural clearings, changing textures, and the quiet coexistence of flora and fauna. The landscape was first structured through a series of gardens, portals, and threshold spaces that guide movement gradually across the terrain, creating an experience of discovery, pause, and immersion. The site unfolds through narrow pathways, framed views, layered greens, and shifting materiality, allowing nature to remain the primary experience.

Emerging from this landscape framework are three distinct residences, each exploring a different relationship between architecture and nature. The Courtyard House follows an outside-in approach, pulling the landscape into the core of the dwelling through internal green courts. The Art House adopts an inside-out approach, framing views and extending spaces outward to appreciate the surrounding environment. Positioned between dense vegetation, the third residence acts as an immersive dwelling embedded within the greens themselves. Together, all three houses are designed to exist quietly within the landscape where built forms merge subtly with the terrain, materials remain raw and restrained, and architecture becomes a silent extension of nature rather than an object imposed upon it.