Projects

A Raj-era gymkhana reborn in Kolkata's Topsia.

EPISODE occupies a bare-shell floor in Topsia, a fast-rising commercial quarter on the eastern edge of Kolkata. The conc...

A handmade, experimental restaurant in Jamshedpur.

Unplugged sits in Jamshedpur, the steel town in the middle of Jharkhand and India's first planned industrial city, built...

A modern gymkhana condensed into one Powai room.

EPISODE Powai marks the brand's arrival in Bombay, dropped into one of the most competitive hospitality landscapes in th...

A French Pop apartment visualization in BKC, Mumbai.

XBKC is a spatial visualization project for an apartment interior, created in collaboration with Sneha Desai and Studio ...

A mirrored light sculpture for the Celebrate Bandra festival.

RFLCT is a self-funded, mirrored tetrahedral light sculpture created for the Celebrate Bandra art festival. Set among th...

A street-culture branding experiment around Gully Boy.

An early freelance branding experiment for Excel Entertainment, made around the release of the film Gully Boy. The work ...

A DIY festival environment for Goonj Music Festival, Alibag.

A DIY festival environment created for the Goonj Music Festival at Forest Hills in Alibag, the coastal getaway across th...

Design research into folding 2D planes into 3D forms.

T4D (The 4th Dimension) is a research project by the ARCHV collective investigating how flat 2D planes intersect, fold, ...

Western superheroes lost in the villages of rural India.

This visual experiment drops Western pop myths into the raw reality of rural India. Displaced from their cinematic sk...

An architectural poster-making project born in lockdown.

Scarpin is a graphic design and poster-making exercise started during the COVID lockdown as part of ARCHV. Stuck indoors...

A 'work in progress' SOCIAL inside Inorbit Mall, Malad.

A new edition of SOCIAL in suburban Malad, inside Mumbai's Inorbit Mall. The brief was simple and generous: freely creat...

A raw, Gothic SOCIAL in metal and concrete, Wadala.

In the old town of Wadala, this SOCIAL is designed as a rustic, Gothic experience. Built primarily from metal and concre...

A bespoke concrete art installation for a Mumbai residence.

Commissioned for a residence on Mumbai's Worli Sea Face, CONCRT is a study in urban materiality: concrete treated as a m...

ARCH 577 — Design Build I, SCAD Built program

Two design-build proposals for Habersham Hall, a Moorish Revival former Chatham County jail in Savannah that SCAD is con...

India's first online group art exhibition, still live.

Virtual Gods is India's first online group art exhibition, hosted live by the ARCHV collective in August 2020, at the he...

A speculative study of urban sleeping for unhoused people.

A speculative design study rethinking the spatial conditions of urban sleeping for unhoused populations in Mumbai. The s...

A dichroic installation inside a historic Ahmedabad pol.

Titled Traces and Territory, this is a site-specific dichroic acrylic installation built inside Dhal Ni Pol, one of the ...

A civic proposal for an animal crematorium in Borivali.

A self-initiated civic proposal to the BMC for a pet crematorium in Borivali, a place for the city to say goodbye to its...

A landscape proposal reviving a Mumbai neighborhood dog park.

A landscape proposal to the BMC for transforming an underused neighborhood dog park in Mumbai. The design rethinks the g...

A vertical stone house on a tight Palitana corner plot.

Dakughar sits in Palitana, the Gujarati pilgrim town gathered at the foot of Shatrunjaya, one of the holiest hills in Ja...

Branding for compact shelter pods for street animals.

A freelance branding project for Pet Pods, compact shelters designed for street animals. Created for Kuldeep Jahangir in...

An experimental rammed-earth farmhouse on the outskirts of Jaipur.

On the outskirts of Jaipur, Seven Gardens is an experimental farmhouse built on a simple, fully sustainable premise: the...

An Asian fusion restaurant and bar in Powai.

Gong is an Asian fusion restaurant and bar in Powai, designed for Impresario Handmade Restaurants. The whole room is org...

A civic proposal reimagining the Tilak Nagar maidan.

A civic landscape proposal to the BMC reimagining the Tilak Nagar maidan as a genuinely inclusive public park. Mumbai's ...

A light-touch hillside retreat under a Karjat banyan.

Under the Tree occupies a steep, wooded plot in the hills of Karjat, the monsoon-green belt in the foothills of the Sahy...

An urban intervention research project by ARCHV.

VANDLS is an urban intervention research project by the ARCHV collective, developed through our Sunday Service sessions ...

A rooftop SOCIAL venue at South City Mall, Kolkata.

Perched on the roof of South City Mall, this SOCIAL looks out over south Kolkata. The design centers on a central bar ri...

Two architects who never met, fused into one building.

As a student of architecture, architects themselves have always fascinated me. Each one has a signature: a way of det...

Superheroes reimagined as a deck of playing cards through AI.

Since childhood I've been obsessed with superheroes: the universes of Marvel, X-Men, and DC. This project is a tribut...

Ballroom, disco, and hip-hop projected into speculative futures.

Dance has always been inseparable from the rooms it happens in: the ballroom, the disco, the street. This experiment ...

India's lost kings and queens, restored through AI.

India's history is full of kings and queens whose faces, fashion, and presence have faded into the archives. This vis...

Iconic Hollywood films reimagined with Bollywood masala flair.

I grew up in Bombay, the birthplace of Bollywood, watching Western films alongside Hindi ones, and I've always been curi...

SBLD 560 — Collab: Design for AI, Spring 2026

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Graphic stickers in homage to Roberto Burle Marx.

A graphic homage to the landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx, whose abstract paintings and ground plans famously becam...

Can twelve buildable interventions help Savannah confront four conditions of contemporary life — loneliness, food insecurity, extreme heat, and climate migration?

DesignBuild examines how design can respond to four conditions reshaping everyday life — loneliness, food insecurity, ex...

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ARCH 727/737 — Grad Studio II+III: Continuous project

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ARCH 747 — Grad Studio IV: Interdisciplinary Focus

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Three-dimensional tile artworks in homage to Carlo Scarpa.

This artwork is an homage to Carlo Scarpa and his craft. Scarpa's signature elements, the orthographic steps, repeating ...

A curated antique installation for a Mumbai residence.

Commissioned for a residence on Mumbai's Worli Sea Face, SHELF is an ode to the city's history and its underbelly, where...

ARCH 717 — Grad Studio I: Urban Design and Development

Tasked with developing an urban design proposal for the barren, heavily concreted Union Pier in Charleston, South Caroli...

Interior redesign and rebranding for Mainland China, Andheri.

Mainland China is a much-loved Chinese restaurant chain, famous for the tagline 'If It's Chinese, It's Mainland China.' ...

A container-built food court for Mumbai Airport's Terminal 1.

XXL Collective approached us to design the food court layout for Terminal 1 of Mumbai Airport. At its center sits the re...

A modern residence overlooking the sea on Malabar Hill.

Designed for our clients Anand and Nishi, this is a modern residence in an old building overlooking the sea on Malabar H...

A creative collective documented through a digital archive.

ARCHV is a collective that learns by making. Founded by Sneha Desai, Varun Mehta, Nayan Mote, and myself, the team runs ...

An open-access library of buildable design prototypes.

The Open Source Design Library (OSL) is a collaborative initiative: an open-access archive where designers submit functi...

A brick-built SOCIAL in Vashi, designed as a ruin in motion.

SOCIAL Vashi is an experiment in brick. Working under the concept of 'a ruin in motion,' we explored brickwork of every ...

An invite-only diner atop a historic Mumbai bakery.

St. Jude Bakery is a redevelopment idea for a historic Mumbai bakery: an invite-only diner upstairs, with the small work...

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A restrained bar intervention on Salt Water Cafe's upper floor.

Salt Water Cafe is a Bandra institution, and it was already thriving when we arrived. So our intervention was deliberate...