01Architecture12 June 20266 min
Designing for Indian daylight
Most interior lighting advice is written for latitudes that never get this much sun. Here, the discipline is subtraction — and the tools are depth, texture and shade.
Journal — Writing
Notes on
material, light
and practice.
Occasional writing from the studio. Mostly about materials and how they behave, occasionally about why a plan works — never about trends we do not believe in.
07 Entries
02Material Stories5 min
Terracotta, reconsidered
A material that was never actually out of fashion in India, only out of fashion in magazines.
03Lighting7 min
Lighting a room in four layers
Almost every over-lit interior we are asked to fix has the same problem: one layer doing four jobs.
04Furniture5 min
Anatomy of a good chair
Sixty-four covers a night will find every weakness in a chair within a month. Here is what we now check before specifying one.
05Material Stories4 min
Stone and time
On specifying surfaces that are supposed to change, and writing that change into the handover document.
06Design Trends5 min
The dining room returns
After fifteen years of knocking walls down, our residential clients have started asking for a room with a door on it again.
07Studio Notes4 min
Notes from the material library
Nine metres of shelving, roughly 1,400 samples, and one rule that keeps it usable.
Have a spacein mind?
Let’s create it.