Work
Professional work from my years at Studio 823 and FKD Workshop.
This is the professional work I was part of at Studio 823 and FKD Workshop between 2018 and 2023: hospitality, commercial, and residential projects in Mumbai and across India, from Jaipur to Kolkata.
Both studios shaped how I practice. Under the mentorship of Samir, Faizan, and Siddhesh, I joined Studio 823 as an intern in my final year of school and grew into a full-time architect there. It was a fast, demanding environment, and it laid my professional foundation.
Starting in 2021, I worked alongside Faizan to build FKD Workshop from the ground up: establishing the studio practice, leading teams, and managing projects from initial pitch to onsite execution. It gave me the chance to direct large hospitality and public projects, often several at once.
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 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 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...
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 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...
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 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 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...
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 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...
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 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 ...
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...
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 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...