At Morva salt pans, the winds transform with seasons and time, bringing an entire shift in the landscape and sensorial experience of the site.

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In monsoon, the wind grows heavy and thick with moisture, pressing across the flat salt pans; at other times, it is dry, sharp, and laden with salt.

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During the monsoon season, the local Marathi and Maachi Gujarati communities take up the seasonal occupation of fishing, moving with the tides and the rains. As the waters recede with the warmer months, the landscape transforms again, leaving behind glistening salt flats and a quieter, drier terrain.​

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This house is angled to the direction of wind, meeting it rather than resisting it. Its porosity allowing air to pass through openings, lattices, and shaded passages would filter the gusts, shaping spaces of movement.

The way one would inhabit this space here follows the same rhythm as the wind.

 

In the dry season, the Summer House becomes a shelter from the glare and dust, spaces to rest in filtered shade and gentler breezes.

During monsoons, when the winds are cooler, swollen with humidity, the Monsoon House opens up as an active workspace for gathering and watching the weather.

Its spaces tuned to the wind’s shifting temper, asking its occupants to live with its cycles.

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