{"id":514,"date":"2025-09-30T05:00:58","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T05:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scientificmediagroup.com\/?p=514"},"modified":"2025-10-02T16:10:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T16:10:26","slug":"grounded-adapts-160-year-old-goan-home-for-contemporary-living","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scientificmediagroup.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/30\/grounded-adapts-160-year-old-goan-home-for-contemporary-living\/","title":{"rendered":"Grounded adapts 160-year-old Goan home for contemporary living"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Toybox,<\/div>\n

Earthy tones and tactile materials characterise Toybox, a 160-year-old Portuguese-style home<\/a> in Goa, restored by Indian<\/a> practice Grounded.<\/span><\/p>\n

Toybox is situated on a site close to the banks of the river Moira, in the quiet village of Aldona in Goa.<\/p>\n

Now owned by Grounded<\/a> founder Anjali Mangalgiri, who renovated the house to sell it, the home previously belonged to the family of the former governor of Portuguese India.<\/p>\n

\"Toybox,
Grounded has restored a 160-year-old home<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Mangalgiri aimed to adapt the historic elements of the home for contemporary living.<\/p>\n

“The process began by documenting historic features to preserve the Goan-Portuguese vernacular elements, retaining the original footprint and trees on the site, the original shell, terracotta tile roof, and traditional facade plaster detailing,” she told Dezeen.<\/p>\n

The Grounded team planned a living room, study, eat-in kitchen and two bedrooms within the original footprint of the house.<\/p>\n

\"Interiors
The home is located in Aldona, Goa<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A new structure accommodating the bathrooms and another bedroom was added and connected to the existing building via an interior courtyard.<\/p>\n

At the front of the house, the team expanded the narrow Goan-style porch \u2013 known as a balcao \u2013 into a larger verandah.<\/p>\n

\"Toybox,
The kitchen sits at the heart of the home<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“For us, reinterpretation is key: the narrow balcao was expanded into a larger verandah to suit modern social scales, while its original stone seat was carefully dismantled, preserved and rebuilt into the larger verandah,” Mangalgiri explained.<\/p>\n

The house now also features a central eat-in kitchen, which occupies the largest area in the home and was designed to embody its social spirit.<\/p>\n