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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
Vertical Garden and Adaptive Reuse of an Old Sea-facing Structure The redevelopment and renovation of the Marina Villa’s riverfront facing façade was taken up after it suffered heavy damage from a cyclone in 2021. A simple idea to convert the side of the residence which faced the river into a green […]
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 […]
A New Retail Space in an Old House On a corner plot in Indiranagar, the client, Latika Khosla, found an old house. Constructed in the 1980s, this structure was originally designed as a family home on a system that was part concrete frame and part load-bearing in brick. The challenge was to convert this house […]