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 […]
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. […]
Upcycled Vehicle for Collecting Waste Goa plays a host to many national and international events. Many of these events occupy temporary pop-up venues where managing waste is a challenge. Moreover, it is very difficult for the authorities to enforce on-site segregation in event venues and small, remote settlements that do not have a facility to […]
Design of a Learning by Making Campus Designed as a juxtaposition on an existing old house, the Thinkering Campus is a ‘Learning by Making’ space led by Avik Sarkar – an Industrial and Furniture Designer. The site for the campus flanks a village football ground in Nachinola – an idyllic Goan setting with a typically […]
Rejuvenation and Public Space Intervention for Village Well The historic well in question was built about three hundred years back using ‘Lahori bricks’ – a special variety of flat cakes that was prevalent in western India. When discovered, the well was completely silted and the place around was full of acacia overgrowth. The […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Proposal for Temporary School Moving School is an organisation that runs independent charitable schools in Goa and Gujarat for communities that find access to education difficult for their children. This specific proposal is an outcome of a joint workshop with the stakeholders from the Moving School for a prototype to be built […]
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. Two courtyards […]