The eight projects
Summarised below exactly as the PDF sets them out. Read the constraint line first on each.
Palghar Residence — 3BHK, 1,180 sq ft carpet
- Brief: a family home with heavy storage demand and a living room that had to seat nine.
- Constraint: a 14 in beam across the living room and a west-facing wall that heated all afternoon.
- Solution: ceiling levels stepped to absorb the beam, storage pushed into the beam zone, west wall insulated behind panelling.
- Outcome: delivered in 15 weeks; 42 cubic feet more storage than the original layout allowed.
Sleepmax Office — 6,200 sq ft commercial floor
- Brief: 78 workstations, four meeting rooms, a boardroom and a reception on a single warm-shell floor.
- Constraint: landlord fit-out manual, nominated sprinkler vendor, and 62 sq ft per person target density.
- Solution: perimeter cabins replaced with glazed partitions to keep daylight in the open floor.
- Outcome: fire NOC cleared first submission; move-in over a single weekend.
Home Theatre, Mumbai — 210 sq ft dedicated room
- Brief: a seven-seat room in a flat where the neighbour shares two walls.
- Constraint: noise transfer and a 9 ft 2 in slab height that limited acoustic treatment depth.
- Solution: decoupled stud wall on the shared faces, fabric-wrapped absorbers, stepped seating on a 9 in riser.
- Outcome: measured 32 dB reduction to the adjoining bedroom; no complaint in two years of use.
Marble Modular Kitchen — 11 ft L-shape
- Brief: a serious cooking kitchen for a household of six, cooking three times daily.
- Constraint: a 14 in duct projection on the main run and a single window that could not be blocked.
- Solution: tall units moved off the window wall, duct boxed into a full-height pantry, hob placed for cross ventilation.
- Outcome: 34 running feet of internal storage in an 11 ft run; no loss of daylight.
Master Bedroom Suite — 240 sq ft
- Brief: a bedroom, a dressing area and a work corner in one room without partitioning it.
- Constraint: one window, one door, and a wardrobe wall shared with a bathroom.
- Solution: a 9 ft sliding wardrobe as the room divider, with the back face as the study wall.
- Outcome: three functions in one room with no visual clutter; 60 in of desk gained.
Home Office with City View — 95 sq ft
- Brief: a full-time work-from-home setup that did not look like a workstation in the evening.
- Constraint: glare from an east-facing glazed wall between 7am and 11am.
- Solution: desk turned perpendicular to the glazing, layered blind, and closing shutters over the storage.
- Outcome: usable from 7am; the room reads as a study, not an office, after hours.
Sleepmax Boardroom — 420 sq ft
- Brief: a 14-seat boardroom with video conferencing and acoustic separation from the open floor.
- Constraint: sprinkler grid and an existing duct drop across the ceiling centreline.
- Solution: ceiling raft below the duct, acoustic ceiling tiles outside it, double-glazed partition to the floor.
- Outcome: speech privacy achieved without a solid wall; the floor keeps its daylight.
Sleepmax Workspace — open floor, 78 desks
- Brief: high desk count without the room sounding like a call centre.
- Constraint: a hard-finish floor slab and full-height glazing on two faces.
- Solution: acoustic baffles over the desk clusters, carpet tile under the workstations, planting as a soft break.
- Outcome: measured reverberation brought under 0.6 seconds at desk level.
How to read a portfolio
- Look for the constraint, not the finish. Anyone can photograph a good-looking room; the question is what problem the room solved.
- Check whether outcomes are measured. “Spacious” is a claim; “292 cubic feet of storage” is a result.
- Find a project with your constraint — a beam, a shared wall, a duct, a low slab — rather than your style.
- Ask to visit a live site. A finished project shows the outcome; a live one shows the method.
What a portfolio should tell you
- Whether they have met your problem before. Style is transferable; constraint experience is what saves time.
- Whether they measure anything. Studios that record outcomes tend to run sites that produce them.
- Whether the work is theirs. Ask which projects they designed and which they only built.
Download the portfolio (PDF) →
Browse the full portfolio with photographs, or read the Palghar residence lessons.
Frequently asked questions
Can I visit a completed project?+
Sometimes, with the client's consent, and it is worth asking. A completed flat two years after handover tells you more about a studio than any photograph: whether the shutters still align, whether the laminate edges have lifted, whether the paint has held.
Why are client names withheld?+
Because publishing someone's home requires their written consent, and not everyone gives it. Where consent exists we name the project; where it does not, we describe the work without identifying the client. It is also a clause worth checking in your own contract.
Do you design in one particular style?+
No, and a studio that does will make your flat look like their last one. What is consistent across the eight projects is method: measured survey, constraint identified early, storage counted, and the design built around what the flat and the family actually are.
Which project is closest to a typical Mumbai flat?+
The Palghar residence, in terms of the problems — a beam in the wrong place, a west wall that overheats, a storage requirement larger than the flat, and society working hours. Those four constraints appear in most Mumbai residential projects in some combination.
How many projects have you delivered?+
Over 250, across residential and commercial work. The eight in the portfolio were chosen because each one has a constraint worth explaining, not because they are the most photogenic.