ARCHV
A collective built for the love of architecture.
ARCHV began as a conversation between friends in the strange stretch before, during, and after COVID. We wanted a transdisciplinary space for collaborative design projects, bringing people from different creative fields together under an architectural lens.
The rule was simple: build purely for the love of the craft, free from commercial briefs or financial motives. Together with my batchmates, we pooled our different interests to document ideas, create installations, and construct spaces side by side with many collaborators.
That effort grew into a supportive network that still feeds our individual practices, letting us dabble in graphic design, prototyping, and hands-on building. From the Celebrate Bandra installation to Virtual Gods, India's first online group art exhibition, ARCHV remains a place where design and togetherness come to life.
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 ...
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 ...
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 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...
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...
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, ...
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...