Corporate Interiors for an Acclaimed Digital Agency Located in BKC, Mumbai, the space for the office boasts panoramic views of the area with a wrap-around glass facade. The challenge of the project was to respond to the unique work-culture of the organisation, maintaining an open-plan while creating opportunities for seclusion, collaboration, relaxation […]
Design of a Small Shrine and a Public Space Under the patronage of the local care-taker family, a small shrine in the village of Asaon had much cultural significance for the village. A plinth with a deity, the original street-side shrine was redesigned keeping the deity intact and by enclosing the sacred place with […]
Auditorium and Classrooms for the School Complex The Delhi Public School in Pune is a beautiful campus spread over four acres and contains excellently maintained facilities for study and play. The brief was to add an auditorium space and a set of classrooms by adding a floor on top of a square central […]
National Competition Entry The Government of India floated a national competition to design a war memorial and museum on two adjacent sites on the Lutyens grid flanking the India Gate. The site for the war museum had old trees and linear warehousing structures in an orthogonal footprint. The strategy […]
Redesign for a New Edition A collection of Charles Correa’s essays, A Place in the Shade is a seminal book authored and edited by Correa as an assimilation of a lifetime of writing. The texts in the book touch upon critical issues that were central to Charles Correa’s ideas on architecture, urbanism and housing. The […]
Small Infrastructure for Segregating Village Waste As per the mandate issued by the Government of Goa, every village is required to segregate waste locally before dispatching the same waste management facility. To enable this process to manifest efficiently and humanely, a set of prototypes are proposed – a ‘system’ of permutations and combinations wherein each […]
Housing and Convention Facilities for Students Designed on an 11 x 56 meter footprint, the ‘Sangat’ building at Parivartan is an extension to the existing campus. A housing with four dormitories, common facilities, rooms for faculty and an assembly hall on the narrow site. By moving the structure away from the skin of the E-W […]
A House, a Studio and a Workshop with two Private Courtyards Designed on a long and narrow site that opens out to lush paddy fields, the approach is to carve out a mass into inhabitable volumes and spaces. With a program that imagines the ground and the first floors as two independent units. […]
PREVIOUS EDITIONS The Drawing Board is an initiative by Rohan Builders and Mindspace Architects that frames a competition annually for students of architecture to respond to real design challenges in specific locations, encouraging them to engage with questions of context, community, heritage and the built environment. Since its inception in 2016, the initiative has brought […]
A Pavilion and a Small Indoor Sports Centre for Parivartan Campus The Parivartan campus in Siwan is a multi-cultural space that reaches out to more than twenty villages in immediate vicinity. One of the mandates of the institution is to coach football to girls and boys teams formed from the nearby villages. This pavilion is […]