natarani amphitheatre

A new open-air amphitheatre re imagines a space for the performing arts at the historic, 70 year old Darpana Academy, on the bank of the Sabarmati river in Ahmedabad

lldc craft museum

The Living & Learning Design Center and Museum in Ajrakhpur Kutch is imagined as a 'Place' for the crafts of Kutch, a tactile repository and place for learning.

koba house

Koba house is situated on the banks of the river Sabarmati, north of Ahmedabad, and part of koba village. The site is part of an undulating landscape of silt mounds that stretch along either sides of the river.

ajrakh studio

Conceived as a resource centre for the 4500 years old craft of Ajrakh block printing in Kutch, it serves to showcase the technique, production, and the art of Ajrakh.

shardashish school

The new campus for this school was part of the CSR initiative of Torrent Ltd- Gujarat. The site admeasuring 10 acres is barren and contoured. The composition of the land is sand silt and clay with scant vegetation

lime house 6

The site was linear, with the shorter sides to North & South, and measured about 315 sq.m. The street access from the north, the common shared wall to the East, adjacent homes typically two stories high to the south and west defined the periphery. A large neem tree in the SW corner and a large peepal tree to the NW corner were the essential counterpoints.

lime house 8

This 300 sq.mtrs site for this house is part of a 25 acre gated development about 12 kms West of Ahmedabad City in Garodia village meant for ‘second homes’ from the early 90’s.

lime house 5

Lime house 5 was a home for the Dhila family who belong to a village called Kanayabe in Kutch. Their family comprising three generations and nine members live together. The youngest being six and the oldest about seventy.

lime house 4

The site is part of a gated community of affluent homes on the western edge of the city of Ahmedabad. A home for a nuclear family was designed to engage with its many sided vistas and shaded trees.

shrujan

“A need to reassert the unique cultural milieu and the resilient spirit of the Kutchhi people in the wake of a devastating earthquake in 2001, provided the underlying sub-text for the project.”

hbk school

The HBK School is located 45 kms north-west of Ahmedabad, on the periphery of the town of Chhatral. The master plan comprises of 3 built structures defining a congregational scale outside and inner courts defining core of each school.

unn panjrapol

The cattle shelter in Unn, Banaskantha, was established to house 1,500 cattle after a severe flood damaged the previous enclosure. Situated on an agrarian belt near a small village lake, the new site benefits from existing neem trees and local species, which guided the design to maximize natural shade and environmental harmony.

kensville

Kensville, near Nalsarovar, 40 kms south-west of Ahmedabad is the proposed location for this ayurveda centre.

lime house 1

A modest home for a middle-aged couple on the outskirts of Ahmedabad, with three bed-rooms, indoor and outdoor living spaces made a very mundane design brief.

radhanagari

Set within the western ghats of Maharashtra, Radhanagri is a picturesque forested setting known also because of the famous Radhanagri dam built by the British.

mmrtp

This is a sustainable eco tourism initiative in Malabar village in the Panchamahal district of Gujarat. It was an attempt to set up a home-stay and eco adventure model with the support of the local community of Rathwas.

lime house 2

Two houses with a shared social space for two close friends and their families was the brief provided. This houses were to be used mostly during weekends and holidays with an aim to entertain and also retire to.

karamsad house

The project was to build an occasional retreat amidst a grove of old mango trees measuring about 10 acres. This was part of an industrial campus in Karamsad, Gujarat, which happens to be a very fertile and verdant geographical zone.

mehta house

studio

art gallery

jpac

At a time when most medical care facilities across the country are aiming to expand their horizons and outreach towards a higher patient turnover, the Muljibhai Patel Urology hospital at Nadiad, sought to create a center to impart training to surgeons across the world through the setting up of the JPAC.

suramya house

Our home is part of a small development of residential plots for ‘second homes’ about 12 kms west of Ahmedabad. Known as Suramya-3, it is now part of the extended suburbia.

mkm school

This village school up gradation project was part of the CSR initiative for ‘The Torrent Power Ltd,’ in Mehmadpur village in the Sabarkantha District of Gujarat.

lime house 3

The site is part of the new west zone of Ahmedabad in an area that is dotted with very large homes on vast tracts of land.

ghada school

Ghada village near Bhuj city in Kutch was severely affected by the earthquake on Jan 26th 2000. Comprising about 90 families, largely dependent on employment as farm labourers in nearby fields in an arid region, economic survival is one of their most difficult challenges.

dhori school

The village of Dhori in Northwestern Kutch was devastated by the Earthquake in Kutch, on 26th of January 2000. The village school was completely destroyed and was to be reconstructed from a fund made available from the Prime Ministers Relief Fund.

agrawal house

The site for this residence is part of a plotted enclave of very expensive land parcels in western Ahmedabad.

chidambaram house – the 8th extension

Chidambaram house has been the family home of the classical dancer/activist Mrinalini Sarabhai and Dr. Vikram Sarabhai, an eminent physicist.

chaparda

The proposed RZNC (Rupa Zaver Naturopathy Center) site is located at Chaparda near Junagarh

sundervan

‘Sundervan’ near Rancharda village is a residential development planned as a retreat for city dwellers to own houses in well-organized verdant environs.

parishkar

The architectural design of this house with its straight lines and simple volumes addresses a ‘contemporary outlook’ with an emphasis on easy maintainability.

kukma

Kukma village in Kutch lies 30 km south of Bhuj. Predominantly an agrarian setting, it now has become a major industrial zone since the tax holiday declared after the earthquake a few years back.

eco-1

Sanand is a newly developing suburb 20 kms to the south west of Ahmedabad and the new auto hub of gujarat. The government, in association with real estate builders, envisions the construction of affordable houses by eco-friendly methods in selected cities.

aries, goa

The 1000 sq.m site allocated for the project was part of the Verna Industrial Estate in South Goa set amidst an undulating terrain of red earth and laterite mounds.

behind the palms

The Living and Learning Design Center at Ajrakhpur Kutch, hosts the annual crafts festival in winter.

dml - navsari

The First Dastoor Meherjirana Library was established in the town of Navsari, Gujarat, in the year 1872 CE, as the second Parsi library in India to be open to public and has been continuously serving the scholarly community since last 147 Years.

parekh house

soparkar house

A weekend retreat for an eminent lawyer couple was proposed on a site that is a part of a hill side development at Allua, over looking the Sabarmati River.

jariwala house