A publisher and wildlife conservationist's Wayanad home lies amid the wilderness
Site visits were meant to be about mud walls. For this Wayanad home, they kept turning into bird walks. "We'd go up expecting to check on the construction," laughs architect Thressia Paul, "and end up on a nature walk instead, with a running commentary of fascinating facts about everything we saw"—every butterfly, every startled squirrel, every rustle in the undergrowth flagged and named by the clients before anyone had so much as looked at the walls. Which, in hindsight, tells you almost everyt...
