5 modern homes built to beat the heat

To say that the Indian summer season of 2026 has been unforgiving is an understatement. With temperatures starting from 42–45 levels Celsius throughout many components of the nation, warmth is now not a seasonal inconvenience — it’s starting to reshape how properties are designed and constructed.

“We’re more and more seeing local weather as the place to begin of design quite than one thing that will get addressed later by mechanical techniques. With rising temperatures and longer summers, the way in which a home sits on the location, its orientation and the way it opens up have grow to be much more important than ever earlier than,” says Neelesh Kumar, principal architect of 23 Levels Design Shift, a Hyderabad-based structure and design agency.