Two practices, one masterplan
Parallel teams on one site, with the masterplan, the water strategy and the brief worked out together from the start.
For example: Mysuru Silk Udyog, a residential landscape built around a continuous ecological spine.
Collaborate with us
Every practice is stronger inside a collective.
We are a design studio first. Architects, urban designers and landscape designers lead the work, with engineers, hydrogeologists and ecologists in the same room, so that every design idea is tested against the land while it is still being formed. The collaborations that work best are the ones built on common ground: a shared belief that the land should lead, and that a place is judged by how it lives long after it is finished.
If that is the kind of work you care about, start a conversation with us.
Ways we work together
These are the shapes our collaborations usually take. They are a starting point, not a list of conditions. If what you have in mind sits outside them altogether, we would still like to hear it.
Our engineering, your design
Structural, MEP, water and site engineering from our own teams, working to your drawings.
For example: Sanctuary by Aarth, with Studio Mango, Urban Narrative and Idea Design.
You design, we build
You hold the design. We take it through execution planning, procurement, construction and maintenance.
For example: Siruseri Urban Forest, designed by Pitchandikulam Forest Consultants.
Specialist input on your project
Our designers, hydrogeologist, ecologist, geologist and engineers join your team for a defined piece of work: a design review, a site reading, a study.
For example: Kuttagallu Lake, with Sandilya Theurkauf.
What does collaborating with us mean?
It means thinking together, sharing what we know. Three decades of designing places, and the studies that give the design its footing — water, soil, climate, ecology — are open to you, as your detail, your craft and your reading of the brief are to us.
And it means being part of something larger than one project: a growing body of work that shows land can be built on without being emptied out, and a wider group of practices willing to work that way.
What we bring to the table
Design thinking, since 1991
Three decades of asking what a place should be before asking what to put on it: masterplans, buildings, landscapes and the ideas that hold them together.
Ideas tested against the land
Water, soil, climate and ecology studied in-house, so a design decision rests on what the site can actually carry rather than on an assumption.
Thinking that survives construction
Because we also build, the idea holds through detailing, costing and site, instead of thinning out between drawing and execution.
Care after handover
Maintenance and monitoring, so a place is judged by how it grows, not by how it photographs on day one.
How it starts
Tell us about the land and the brief
Where it is, what is being asked of it, and which part you would like us to hold. A few lines is enough to begin.
We meet, and walk the site
We come back to you within a few days. Wherever we can, we walk the land together before anyone draws anything.
We scope the collaboration
Who does what, on what timeline, at what cost. Written down plainly, so both practices know where their work begins and ends.
We have worked with
Recent collaborations
Have a dialogue with us
A project you would like us to join, a piece of land you are working out, or simply an interest in the way we work: a few lines is enough to begin. We read everything that comes in, and reply within a few working days.