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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 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 ...
A temporary festival landscape designed around the afterlife of its materials.
GOONJ was a temporary environment for a music festival at Forest Hills, Tala, on 24 December 2019. Developed with Varun ...
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...
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 civic landscape and dedicated canine agility park in Borivali, Mumbai.
A civic landscape intervention designed for the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) transforming an underused publi...
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...
A minimal identity for a pet furniture brand, built from circles and shared strokes.
Pet Pod is a logo and identity project for Kuldeep Jhangid’s pet furniture brand, developed with Varun Mehta. The brief ...
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 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. The plan brings the main dining room, private dining, bar, dim sum count...
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...
Vandalizing for the good.
VANDLS is an urban intervention research project by ARCHV, developed through the Sunday Service sessions with The Initia...
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...
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. Assignment 01 — Archi-Selfie. Final submission...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
A bilingual typeface and merchandise proposal for Gully Boy.
A merchandising proposal for Gully Boy, developed with Varun Mehta and Jeet Soneji for Urban Monkey India and Yash Gangw...
A five-star coastal resort: villas, rooms and shared amenities organised around the beach, landscape and hospitality operations.
MIG and HIG redevelopment combining homes, commercial frontage and a complete parking strategy through a Mumbai DCR study.
A municipal general hospital for local residents, studied through access, clinical adjacencies, patient dignity and daily operations.
SBLD 560 — Collab: Design for AI, Spring 2026
Exploring AI in architectural design through ethics, image generation and spatial workflows. Course studies span text-to...
ARCH 775 — Global Architectural Practice, Winter 2026
Architectural practice across the world, compared practice by practice.
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.
ARLH 702 — History of Architectural Theory and Criticism, Winter 2025
The history of architectural theory and criticism.