Bliss Resort-I

Resort on foothills Location: Igatpuri, NasikArea: 7 acresCompleted: Aug 2018 The land, surrounded by paddy fields and rivulets streaming down the facing hill, is a given setting for this project. Rather than ‘developing’ the resort, the design was thought in a way to dilute the built forms using a variety of open and semi open structures that […]
Home & Studio

House on a hillside Location: PanchganiArea: 5,250 sqftStatus: Completed, June 2014 Situated in the hills of Panchgani, this house offers luxuriant terraces that recede in curvilinear forms overlooking the strawberry farms cascading down the hill – a merger of house with the sloping topography. Entry to the house is on the midlevel into a living room of […]
Exhibition Pavilion

Pavilion of corten steel walls Location: GurgaonArea: 11,800 sqft, 1 acreStatus: Completed, Oct 2014 The Pavilion is placed on a diagonal axis to the road announcing entry through a speaker like cone made up of tall Corten steel walls. With the plinth edge projecting out, the building seems to float over a landscaped garden. The pavilion […]
Ace Office

Office for an Engineering company Location: MumbaiArea: 3,200 sqftStatus: Completed, Nov 2020 This is a head office for one of India’s leading gas pipeline infrastructure engineering firms. The firm spans two generations and that ethos is brought into the design of the interiors using industrial materials in a contemporary aesthetic. The reception sports a floating yellow box […]
Symbiosis School

Learning with skill development Location: BadlapurArea: 35,000 sqftStatus: Ongoing This is an experimental school of a pedagogy that layers high school curriculum with skill development in gradual stages of child development. The design began with exploring the unit of a school –the classroom. Fusing a rectangle and a triangle to shape a classroom makes seating modes functional […]
Urban Villas

Mixed housing types Location: HyderabadArea: 54 acresStatus: Ongoing Urban villa schemes typically seem to celebrate just the road as a frontage with the other remaining sides of slivers of regulatory open spaces left unusable. The masterplan addresses this issue by deliberating on each side of a villa. Thus, the villas front on the road with groves of […]
Affordable Housing

Housing with Self-Service economy Location: Guntur, Andhra PradeshArea: 52 acres, 4,500 homesStatus: Competition shortlisted A two stage competition, KnowArch in collaboration with Sarayan Consultants are shortlisted among the top 6 finalists by the State Housing Corporation Ltd. Govt. of Andhra Pradesh. A land of 54 acres, located approx. 30kms off a town, was earmarked for affordable housing […]
Convention Centre

Multi-use conventions Location: MumbaiArea: 2,50,000 sqftStatus: Ongoing Conventions have a pertinent common- they ‘unveil’. This verb is expressed through a 180m long façade of perforated metal sheets, designed like a concertina presenting itself on the highway. The convention hall is a huge 90mx140m column less space that can hold a multitude of events ranging from international […]
Bliss Resort-II

Farm Resort Location: Igatpuri, NasikArea: 3 acresStatus: Ongoing A farm land of 3 acres was annexed to the existing resort (also designed by KnowArch) to be developed as two storied villas on sub-plots. The Master plan is worked out strategically to place the villas in one half of the land through long subdivisions, and with boundaries assigned […]
Capital Bungalow

House in Lutyen’s Delhi Location: New DelhiArea: 11,000 sqftStatus: Unbuilt The 1-acre corner plot in Lutyen’s Delhi is blessed with 2 groves of existing trees, which are retained as the connecting axes of the new bungalow. KnowArch worked closely with Aakar Design Consultants Pvt. Ltd. to conceptualise the design of the house for a family of 3 […]