🚧 Draft — not final. This page was auto-generated as day-one scaffolding for the project and still needs a human pass before it reads as finished. The blanks and placeholders below are intentional — someone who runs this project should fill them in and delete this notice.

The land

Before a single line of design, the site has to be known — honestly and on paper. In the Ghats the land decides the house: the slope, the water, the access road, and above all what the monsoon does to the site are constraints no architect can wish away. This is the first doc because everything after it is built (literally) on what's here.

Water

• Source: borewell / spring / stream / municipal — and its reliability across seasons.
• The monsoon question: where does the water go — does the site drain, or does it pool and slide?

The site in the monsoon (the deciding factor)

• Slope & drainage: which way water runs, and what it does to the soil.
• Landslide / erosion risk: the honest local history of the hillside.
• What locals know: the neighbour's flooded corner, the road that washes out — written down before it's learned the hard way.

Utilities & access

• Power: grid reach, reliability, outage frequency in the rains.
• Connectivity, distance to town, emergency access.

Photos & site notes

• (dated photos across seasons — the same corner in May and in July tells the real story)