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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Spatial Identity and Space Design for a Lifestyle Brand The project was an exercise in developing a design language for Samoh, a contemporary-ethnic clothing brand. This included the design of physical stores and all its furniture components for displaying clothing and accessories. The simple language comprises of delicate lines and forms which are finished with […]
Design of a Collapsible Enclosure for Birds to Nest Small birds – sparrows, robins, sunbirds and a few urban species nest in architectural pockets within buildings. We are all familiar with nests tucked between rafters, found on utility shelves and between the outdoor units of ACs. Designed for a Bengaluru-based NGO, the Bird House is […]
Private Residence with Borrowed Garden The Kokum House is programmatically designed as a private residence situated in a village called Quitla, near Aldona. Half of the site belongs to an orchard zone, and the house thus is contained on a small footprint of 9m x 12m with five bedrooms, one kitchen, toilets and living spaces. […]