Making spaces is an act of response to needs. Beginning of architectural responses are rooted in the climatic context in which spaces were made. Here is a visual documentation of an enquiry into how monsoon has shaped architectural responses - M.Arch. thesis by Nisha Mary Thomas done at CEPT, Ahmedabad.

Geography played a major part in the morphological development of settlements in Kerala. Thus the responses vary in the low lands, in the plains, in mid lands, and high ranges... the four different kinds of geographic terrain, all in one small strip of land called Kerala.