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A compact café interior in Khar, Mumbai.
Barley and Bun is a compact café concept in Khar, Mumbai. The selected visualisations connect a planted street frontage,...
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, shown 17–25 ...
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 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...
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 dichroic installation inside a historic Ahmedabad pol.
A dichroic acrylic installation strung across the courtyard of Dhal Ni Pol, reading the pol’s heritage fabric through re...
A Japanese-inspired restaurant shaped by a suspended timber ceiling and a precise palette of wood, stone, leather and patterned fabric.
GONG is a Japanese-inspired restaurant and bar on the second floor in Hiranandani, Powai. The plan brings the main dinin...
An urban intervention research project by ARCHV.
VANDLS is an urban intervention research project by the ARCHV collective, developed through our Sunday Service sessions ...
Forty-eight houses, each designed by two architects who never met.
As a student of architecture, architects themselves have always fascinated me. Each one has a signature: a way of det...
A hundred and thirty-two superheroes, sat for the same portrait session.
Since childhood I've been obsessed with superheroes: the universes of Marvel, X-Men and DC. This is that obsession pu...
Fifty sovereigns of the subcontinent, staged for the same royal photoshoot.
Fifty sovereigns of the subcontinent — thirty-two kings and eighteen queens spanning over two thousand years of histo...
Fifty Hollywood characters, recast as if the same film had been made in Indian cinema.
Fifty iconic Hollywood characters across fifteen landmark films, recast as if each film had been conceived and shot i...
The Baki cast, shot as one live-action studio portrait series.
Baki is a manga about bodies. Its whole argument is carried in anatomy — who is dense, who is long, who has been rebu...
A Thousand Plateaus read back as a hundred and eight engravings.
Deleuze and Guattari wrote in plateaus rather than chapters — twelve of them, each enterable from anywhere and none o...
Sixty-four One Piece characters, staged as a unified prestige live-action portrait series.
One Piece reimagined as a unified prestige live-action portrait series: sixty-four principal characters shot under on...
ARCH 769 — Hybrid Media Presentation in Architecture, Fall 2026
Hand processes for architectural presentation, one medium per assignment. Archi-Selfie, an architectural self-portrait i...
ELDS 775 — Simulation, Animation, and Visualization in the Building Arts, Fall 2025
Visualisation studies of one house in two views: the courtyard entrance, and a living room looking out to the garden.
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...
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 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 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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
SBLD 560 — Collab: Design for AI, Spring 2026
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ARCH 775 — Global Architectural Practice, Winter 2026
Architectural practice across the world, compared practice by practice.
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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...
ARCH 745 · 798 · 799 — Graduate Seminar and Thesis I–II, M.Arch thesis
The Powerhouse: a sustainable charging anchor. The M.Arch thesis, carried across the Graduate Seminar and both thesis st...
FURN 708 — 3D Computer-aided Design, Spring 2025
Three-dimensional computer-aided design for furniture, taken as a graduate elective in the M.Arch programme.
ARCH 727/737 — Grad Studio II+III: Continuous project
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ARLH 702 — History of Architectural Theory and Criticism, Winter 2025
The history of architectural theory and criticism.
ARCH 747 — Grad Studio IV: Interdisciplinary Focus
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ARCH 706 — Architectural Practice, Fall 2024
The profession, its contracts and its management, in the first quarter of the M.Arch programme.
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 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...
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...