MATTER.
JUNE
2026
Hello,
Over the past six months, a range of projects, ideas, and
initiatives have taken shape. We are pleased to share a few recent developments and
milestones with you. We welcome your curiosity and comments.
Sincerely,
TEAM MATTER.
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GODREJ DESIGN LAB 2025 FELLOWSHIP SHOWCASE | EXHIBITION
& CURATION
We were entrusted by the
Godrej Design Lab to curate and design the annual GDL Fellowship Exhibition at the Conscious
Collective 2025 (December 11-14, 2025, Mumbai). The work enabled us to interact with the
incredible cohort of GDL fellows, and observe the intense, demanding and finally, enriching
fellowship process anchored by the Godrej Design Lab team. The exhibition saw a range of
professionals, students, and citizens visit and interact with the projects.
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ARCHITECTURES OF TRANSITION : EMERGENT
PRACTICES IN SOUTH ASIA
We were selected to be part of Architectures of Transition:
Emergent Practices in South Asia, exhibited at IFBE, Mumbai, alongside seventy-seven
practices engaging with questions of architecture, landscape and infrastructure in the public
realm. Our project, the Produce Market at Narindrapur, Bihar, was presented within a larger
conversation on shifting practices and positions across South Asia.
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'TO DRAW': FRAME CONCLAVE
2025
We curated and
organised the FRAME Conclave 2025 over October 2, 3 and 4, at the National Institute of
Oceanography in Panaji, Goa. The conference, hinged on the critical idea of 'Drawing', explored
the question of process, representation, interpretation, mapping, and design through lectures,
discussions and film screenings. We were joined by a fraternity of over 600 architects and
designers in an intense immersion over three wonderful days.
frameconclave.com
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HOUSE IN SIOLIM
A few years back, we
had designed a residence on this site. However, in a happy reversal of fortunes, the clients felt
that a smaller place is better, and we took on the new brief to design a small pavilion with a
tropical pool. The structure thus conceived is a painstakingly detailed shed with a
mangalore-tiled roof that floats above the liminal space. In a world where bigger is generally
better, this small intervention proves the exact opposite.
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THE MERIT LIST
2024-25
18 Projects from across India received citations in the
2024-25 Merit List. The members of the jury, Pinkish Shah, Andrea Anastasio, Shubhra Raje
and Sriram Ganapathi screened and debated projects from across India submitted as entries for
the recognition, and the valediction ceremony was hosted at the Frame Conclave 2025,
followed by a discussion with the members of the jury. The publication chronicling the citations
of the winning entries, as well as the long-list of the projects, was released as part of the
ceremony. To obtain a copy of the publication, you can write to us at tml@matter.co.in.
themeritlist.com
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SKETCHING CHHAYA : ON THE PRECISE
MEASURE OF THINGS, AND THE IMMEASURABLE
We made a film,
Sketching Chhaya: On the Precise Measure of Things, and the Immeasurable, shot and edited
by Gasper D’Souza / White Brick Post, which chronicles Chhaya’s ideas on life and
architecture.
Neelkanth Chhaya is an architect and academician. He retired as the Dean of the
Department of Architecture at CEPT University in Ahmedabad and has served and led
academic committees in KRVIA Mumbai; Srishti School of Art, Bengaluru, and Goa College of
Architecture amongst many others. In his practice spanning more than 30 years, Prof. Chhaya
has researched and worked extensively in the domain of appropriate architecture for India,
documenting places of historic significance, and authoring numerous critical papers on the
same subject.
After its screening at the Urmila Kailash Black Box at the Kanoria Centre for Arts, Ahmedabad,
the film will next be presented at BLURCK, Delhi, on 13th of June. To arrange a screening, you
can write to us
at think@matter.co.in.
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RANDHIR SINGH | PHOTOGRAPHS OF ARTHSHILA
GOA
In its new avatar, the Arthshila Goa space opened to a range of exhibitions and interactions with
a range of events, seminars, film screenings and performances to a diverse audience in Goa.
Acclaimed architecture photographer Randhir Singh captured the space on film and digital
mediums bringing forth the unique architectural quality of the building and the way light interacts
with space. We see the space through Randhir's eyes.
www.arthshila.org
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PANAJI MOBILITY
PLAN
In
2024, we got involved in a two-year exercise with the Imagine Panaji Smart City Development
Ltd to design and enable a city-wide mobility plan that included bus transit systems, commuter
infrastructure (bus stops and transit hubs), routes, loops and frequencies, as well as the graphic
and visual language of the system. This intense design project propelled us to re-engage with
the people and stakeholders of the city we so love and, in the process, rediscover Panaji. This
year, we saw the phased implementation of our plan as we continue to monitor the gradual
improvement in the way people navigate the city.
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ISDM NOIDA
Our project for the Indian School for Development Management
(ISDM) is designed as a pre-cast concrete building executed by the incredible team at Steller
Group, Noida. The project envisions academic and hostel facilities along with an array of
academic and institutional spaces around a large central open-to-sky courtyard. We have
collaborated with Seema Anthony of Ecodomain for the rich, diverse landscape of ISDM. The
project, under construction, has revealed the complexity, rigour and potential of designing with
pre-cast concrete with the space being 'assembled' on site - much like a stack
puzzle.
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CRITICAL THINKING STUDIO AT SCHOOL OF
ENVIRONMENT AND ARCHITECTURE, MUMBAI
Ruturaj Parikh of Matter engaged students in a vertical studio in an
intense two-month exercise to deeply engage with two books - Thinking Architecture by Peter
Zumthor and the sublime A Place in the Shade by Charles Correa. The studio took off from the
premise that writing is a function of substance rather than style, distilling the way architects
articulate their own ideas in text, and making connections between observation, assimilation
and response.
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FRAME HOUSE, UCASSAIM
For a
house for Tashan Mehta and Alap Parikh, we reimagined an awkward 1990s structure with good
bones. Through a rigorous process of repair, refurbishment, reuse and reimagination, the space
is being slowly transformed into a new home that neither negates the presence of the old nor
submits to its strangeness. The most sustainable building is, indeed, the one that
exists.
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