{"id":5913,"date":"2026-02-26T10:30:42","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T11:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angesfinanciers.org\/?p=5913"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:13:53","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T16:13:53","slug":"mars-designs-thatched-wildlife-retreat-in-india-as-a-quiet-observer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/angesfinanciers.org\/index.php\/2026\/02\/26\/mars-designs-thatched-wildlife-retreat-in-india-as-a-quiet-observer\/","title":{"rendered":"Ma+rs designs thatched wildlife retreat in India as “a quiet observer”"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Serenity<\/div>\n

Indian studio Ma+rs has completed Serenity, a wildlife retreat in Tamil Nadu<\/a> crowned by a cluster of thatched<\/a> roofs intended to blend in with the distant Anamalai mountain range.<\/span><\/p>\n

Nestled within a 1.6-hectare forested plot near the village of Sethumadai, the building is part of a wider project to transform the area into a wildlife corridor, giving over half of the site for elephants, leopards and bison to roam freely.<\/p>\n

Ma+rs reused the stone plinth of a former building on the site to support the new steel-framed structure, which is designed to have as minimal an impact on the landscape as possible.<\/p>\n

\"Serenity
Ma+rs has created a wildlife retreat in India<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“Our core concept for the design was to create a built space that was a quiet observer \u2013 a\u00a0building that did not impose itself on the landscape,” principal architects Anisha Menon and Sabyasachi Routray told Dezeen.<\/p>\n

“Rather, it honoured all that existed and created a permeable boundary where architecture and the wildlife corridor coexist peacefully without any conflict,” they added.<\/p>\n

The layout of Serenity comprises a two-storey L-shaped block of bedrooms to the south and a large, open terrace to the north, which is flanked by a courtyard and a small swimming pool.<\/p>\n

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It has a steel frame and a thatched roof<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Its steel framework is contrasted with the exposed stonework of the plinth below and the 25-centimetre-thick thatch of the roof above, which is formed of six individual pitched volumes topped by ventilation ducts.<\/p>\n

Designed to mimic the distant Anamalai mountain range, this roof structure creates high ceilings for Serenity’s terrace, while its large eaves shelter the bedroom balconies and a dedicated viewing platform on the first floor oriented towards the forest.<\/p>\n