MAGARI KOCHI

Magari Kochi occupies the Papali house, an 80-year-old generational home restored and adapted into a furniture store with care, its façade and character left largely intact. The old colonial layout, with its many interconnecting doors, forms the store's base; onto it, alternating grey and beige wall textures stitch together a visual flow, echoing fabric skirting a room. Dark Kadappa stone runs across the floor in shifting patchwork patterns, with the ceiling folding in response — a fluid contrast against lighter walls. An extension to the old structure flips this logic, appearing to float on glass panels of varying transparency that filter light like sheers. Details carry the metaphor further: creased wall edges, a staircase imagined as a laid carpet, and pegs marking texture joints like bobby pins holding fabric in place. Sheer partitions throughout are woven with motifs from the Kerala landscape — ocean, mountain, stream, and green — using traditional Indian weaving crafts.