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Diamonds Aren’t Just for Jewellers: A Weathertex Soffit Story
The Ceiling That Out-Designed the Floor. Look Up: SMA Just Made a Ceiling Worth Staring At Some ceilings disappear into the background. This one doesn’t let you.
At a private villa in Vashi, architects SMA (Sumessh Menon Associates) have taken the underdeck exterior ceiling and turned it into the first thing you notice. Weathertex Ecowall in Woodsman Natural is set edge to edge in a tight diamond grid, each panel catching light from a slightly different angle, so the whole soffit reads less like cladding and more like a sumptuous cheese-cube ceiling, rich, tactile, and impossible to walk under without looking up.
It’s the kind of detail that only works when the design intent and the execution are both exact. SMA’s eye for pattern and proportion meets PDA Construction’s precision on site, every panel seated true, every joint consistent, so the geometry holds together as cleanly from ten feet away as it does standing right beneath it.
This is Weathertex doing something most people don’t expect from an exterior cladding product: becoming the architecture itself.
Project Diamonds Aren’t Just for Jewellers: A Weathertex Soffit Story
Architects SMA (Sumessh Menon Associates)
Contractors PDA Construction
Product Weathertex Ecowall, Woodsman Natural
Application Underdeck Exterior Ceiling
Scope of Work
- Design of the underdeck exterior ceiling in a tight diamond grid pattern, in collaboration with SMA (Sumessh Menon Associates)
- Supply of Weathertex Ecowall in Woodsman Natural for the full soffit application
- Precision installation across the underdeck ceiling, panel-to-panel alignment held consistent throughout
- Finishing and detailing executed on site by PDA Construction
- Project delivered as part of the villa’s broader facade and exterior design
Material Used
Weathertex Exteriorboards, Woodsman Natural
Ecowall panels were set edge to edge in a repeating diamond pattern across the underdeck exterior ceiling. The tight, geometric layout turns a functional soffit into a textured, light-catching feature in its own right.
Project Highlights
- A diamond-set ceiling pattern that reads more like a design feature than standard cladding
- Precise panel alignment across the full underdeck span
- A strong collaboration between SMA’s design intent and PDA Construction’s on-site execution
- Demonstrates Weathertex’s versatility beyond standard wall cladding applications
- A standout underdeck treatment for a private residential villa