Featured Architectural and Urban Design Projects
Our practice explores the intersection of architecture, urbanism, and landscape. These projects reflect our commitment to human-scale design and context-sensitive planning.
This render of our upcoming housing project in Bengaluru illustrates our approach to creating a layered urban fabric. We design not just buildings, but a network of gardens, streets, and plazas that foster community interaction.
Our design for this pedestrian footbridge is a sculptural urban intervention. The form is a direct response to structural and performative requirements, creating a piece of functional art that enhances the public streetscape.
The Figured Ground, our University Sports Arena in Hubbali, integrates landscape and architecture. By submerging large volumes, the structure maintains a low profile on campus while presenting a striking facade to the city.
For the KLE Centenary Museum, we extended the program beyond the restored colonial building into the landscape. The result is an award-winning public space where pavilions, gardens, and water bodies create a cohesive, narrative-driven experience.
This concept, 'Orchards in the Sky', redefines mixed-use development. We stacked compact residences to create receding terraces that function as private orchards, integrating productive landscapes into a high-density urban form.
Our adaptive reuse strategy for an 18th-century palace complex involves reimagining derelict spaces. Here, a miniature glasshouse is revitalized as part of a new recreational destination, blending heritage with contemporary programs.
Completed in 2016, this student housing project explores density on a minimal footprint of just 111.5 sq.m. The seemingly random fenestration is a direct outcome of the building's internal section and spatial layering.
About this collection
We start every project, whether a heritage restoration or a large-scale township, by mapping the site’s topography, sunlight, and social dynamics. This initial investment in understanding the context often dictates the final form, allowing us to integrate contemporary needs like passive cooling or community plazas without disrupting the existing ecosystem.
Our practice is defined by the process. We operate on the belief that a structure must respect the layers of its environment. When we approach an urban renewal project, we begin with Nolli maps to analyze built form versus open space, ensuring that every new addition enhances the flow of the city.
Our methodology includes:
- Heritage Preservation: We look for the soul of derelict buildings. Our adaptive reuse projects aim to give new purpose to historical structures, using non-permanent materials to create a dialogue between the past and the present. We believe in keeping the old soul while updating the functionality.
- Institutional Design: Projects like our University Sports Arena in Hubbali demonstrate our focus on submerging large volumes to maintain low-profile campus aesthetics while maximizing functionality. We use zinc and glass to reflect the surroundings rather than dominate them.
- Community Master Planning: We treat townships as living fabrics. By prioritizing pedestrian movement and weaving gardens, shops, and homes together, we create environments that foster natural social interaction rather than forced gatherings.
- The Thinking Hand: We reject purely digital workflows for every stage. We use sketches, diagrams, and physical models to test ideas, understand site dynamics, and communicate complex spatial strategies to our clients. This hands-on, often messy approach allows us to see connections that a screen might hide, whether it involves simple massing or intricate facade design.
Thirdspace
Praveen and Namrata here. We founded Thirdspace to rethink how buildings inhabit our cities, focusing on the spaces between structures as much as the buildings themselves. We prefer a hands-on process, sketching, building models, and iterating until the form finds its natural place in the landscape.
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