Market at Narindrapur

Design and Place-Making for a Local-Produce Market     Since decades, a bi-weekly market has popped up on this site – an odd-shaped strip of land on opposite sides of the Narindrapur road in Siwan, Bihar. The design retains all existing vendors as per the existing clusters with a few additional facilities and space for […]

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Studio Matter

Design for a Studio + Dwelling   Sharing a boundary with a historic chapel in the village of Salvador-do-Mundo Goa, this residence-cum-studio space is designed on a linear plan with a conscious attempt to leave more than half the site empty for a rich, tropical landscape. On the ground floor, a studio space flanks a […]

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Children’s Pavilion

Grant Project for a Pop-Up Library at the Serendipity Arts Festival https://studiomatter.in/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Childrens-Pavilion240103_Serendipity-Pavilion_Users-03-1-1.mp4   The Serendipity Arts Festival invites artists and creative practitioners to propose experimental interventions in the urban realm of the city of Panaji. This project was executed through this competition as a ‘non-library’ and was one of the four projects to receive the […]

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ThinkMATTER

Digital Journal on Contemporary Architecture in India thinkMATTER is a platform for documentation and dissemination of ideas on architecture in India. Through diverse and multiple formats, we examine the processes, positions, and histories that shape the practice of architecture. By way of curation and archiving of thought, thinkMATTER contributes to the professional discourse and its […]

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Arthshila Goa

A Multi-Arts Centre     The site for Arthshila Goa had the presence of an old Goan house. The house was not in good shape, but we resisted our initial instinct to demolish the structure in favour of a light, prefabricated addition that can revitalise the old structure. The new proposed programme was a multi-arts […]

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[IN]SIDE

Biannual Journal on Contemporary Architecture IN]SIDE is a series of bi-annual journals published by Matter in collaboration with H & R Johnson (India) on Contemporary Architecture and Interior Design in India. The books chronicle and document ideas and work of some of the most thought-provoking practices from India under three segments – Space, Surface and Object. […]

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Moira House

Contemporary Residence with an Outhouse and a Private Garden           On a beautiful sloping site with aged teak trees, the house and the outhouse frame a private open-to-sky space for a tropical garden to take form. The structures, designed to be efficient, simple and elegant, open out to this lush, light-filled private […]

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The Merit List [TML]

Biennial Architecture Award and Critical Review The Merit List [TML] is an initiative by Matter and Takshila Educational Society to recognise projects of critical relevance in terms of design and thought in the context of contemporary Indian architecture. Each past cycle of TML received about 500 project submissions and nominations from across India. The jury […]

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