Puwangs Atelier

09/08/2026

Proposed “11 Foot Home” @ Nallur

Stage: Construction in progress.

This was a particularly challenging brief. The client wanted to use only a quarter of the land horizontally as the building footprint, with a strict 11 ft × 60 ft footprint based on Vastu beliefs and local interpretations in Jaffna.

Another project that began with a question: How can we adapt architecture to Vastu beliefs without compromising spatial quality?

Within this extremely narrow strip, we had to accommodate 6 rooms, 5 washrooms, a kitchen, living spaces, and circulation.....while also allowing three of the rooms to function as rentable units and creating a double-height living space for the family's own use.

The entire arrangement had to work within approximately 181.43 m² of built-up area.

Rather than treating the Vastu requirement simply as a limitation, the project became an exercise in negotiating between belief, proportion, functionality, privacy, and contemporary living.

A small footprint.
A demanding brief.
And a very interesting architectural problem.

11 Foot Home - Nallur
Construction in progress.

01/04/2026

Y’s Home | An Inquiry || Part-2 - Aerial frames, quiet close-ups, and spaces still taking shape....

'Y’s Home' is conceived as a critical inquiry into the contemporary residential building practice of Jaffna, where architecture is often reduced to repetitive Vasthu-based plans and surface-level finishes. In this context, the project questions not only how houses are built, but how architectural value is currently defined within the industry.

What kind of home can architecture produce under real constraints.....economic, cultural, and technical?

This inquiry extends beyond the finished building to the entire building process itself. Working with a tight budget, a basic and locally available material palette, and the realities of a developing construction industry, the project treats limitation as a design framework rather than a compromise.
Workmanship becomes central to this position. In a context with limited exposure to architectural detailing, the construction process evolved as a shared learning ground between design intent and local labour. Details were developed through on-site dialogue, testing, and adaptation, allowing knowledge to be exchanged rather than imposed. What remains is not only a house, but a transfer of understanding within the local building practice.

Planned as a two-phase house for a nuclear family, Phase 01 is now completed and occupied, while Phase 02 will introduce the upper timber deck, library, and landscape in the future. The current condition is therefore intentional, allowing the architecture to grow with time, economy, and lived need.

Y’s Home positions itself as a quiet critique of building houses as consumable products, and instead proposes architecture as process, learning, and lived experience. It asks whether, within constraint, architecture can still create meaning, memory, and responsibility toward the industry it operates within.

Location : Kondavil, Jaffna, Sri Lanka
Architects : Puwangs Atelier | Archt.Sangeerthan.R, AIA(SL)
Structural Consultant : Eng.B.Seharan
Contractor : Builders BS Construction | Jaffna
Fenestration : Ultra Home Engineering
Photography by : Thadshan Yoges | Thadshan Yoges Archphotography

©️ Puwangs Atelier, 2026

For Architectural Consultancy,
❗️Call/WhatsApp - +94 72 854 0732 ❗️

22/01/2026

Y’s Home | An Inquiry

'Y’s Home' is conceived as a critical inquiry into the contemporary residential building practice of Jaffna, where architecture is often reduced to repetitive Vasthu-based plans and surface-level finishes. In this context, the project questions not only how houses are built, but how architectural value is currently defined within the industry.

What kind of home can architecture produce under real constraints.....economic, cultural, and technical?

This inquiry extends beyond the finished building to the entire building process itself. Working with a tight budget, a basic and locally available material palette, and the realities of a developing construction industry, the project treats limitation as a design framework rather than a compromise.

Workmanship becomes central to this position. In a context with limited exposure to architectural detailing, the construction process evolved as a shared learning ground between design intent and local labour. Details were developed through on-site dialogue, testing, and adaptation, allowing knowledge to be exchanged rather than imposed. What remains is not only a house, but a transfer of understanding within the local building practice.

Planned as a two-phase house for a nuclear family, Phase 01 is now completed and occupied, while Phase 02 will introduce the upper timber deck, library, and landscape in the future. The current condition is therefore intentional, allowing the architecture to grow with time, economy, and lived need.

Y’s Home positions itself as a quiet critique of building houses as consumable products, and instead proposes architecture as process, learning, and lived experience. It asks whether, within constraint, architecture can still create meaning, memory, and responsibility toward the industry it operates within.

Location : Kondavil, Jaffna, Sri Lanka
Architects : Puwangs Atelier | Archt.Sangeerthan.R, AIA(SL)
Structural Consultant : Eng.B.Seharan
Contractor : Builders BS Construction | Jaffna
Fenestration : Ultra Home Engineering
Photography by : Thadshan Yoges | Thadshan Yoges Archphotography

©️ Puwangs Atelier, 2026

For Architectural Consultancy,
❗️Call/WhatsApp - +94 72 854 0732 ❗️

31/12/2025

27/12/2025

Cooking Something with Thadshan Yoges Archphotography ...

26/11/2025

Phase 1 in progress for Y’s Home _ Proposed Residence in Kondavil, Jaffna.