I find it strange that for 50% of the World population, we only celebrate 1 day of the year. However, we can accept this as a gift of the new wave of feminism.  I have a different take on Woman & Man. The difference being purely outward. But each of us has masculine & feminine qualities – the qualities of the Sun & the Moon and I believe everyone is complete within themselves.  I am reminded of 2 incidents where this became apparent to me.  First is when I visited the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry. The two most prominent qualities I observed wer ..read more

“ ARCHITECTURE IS NOT ABOUT THE WALLS, BUT THE SPACE BETWEEN THE WALLS ” - Trupti Doshi Valentine’s Day is around the corner and while love is in the air, love is also in the little things we enjoy, little smiles we get and little joys in every little experience.  While Valentine’s day is associated with love and romance, it is also a day to enjoy relationships that you have with yourself, your family, your neighbors and the nature that spills unconditional love for all of us.  The spaces we design, the house we live in, our workplace, our safe haven, our go to sanctuary; eve ..read more

" The most important Building material in your home is Sunlight ! " In view of Makar Sankranti/Pongal celebrated last week, it got us to recollect and ponder about the importance of Sun and its light in our lives. We all know that Pongal is the harvest festival for farmers where they worship Sun god for all his creations that help them cultivate the food in their lands and much more. But, have we stopped to wonder how the Sun helps us and our health? How can a Sunlit space become the best treatment for you and your family? The Science behind Sunlight: Kept within reasonable limits ..read more

Gratitude Villa is a futuristic house for tomorrow which is built for the modern needs along with reducing carbon footprint by 50%. Built amidst a vast spread of lush greenery, the Gratitude villa sets as an example of Modern architecture integrated with traditional design elements and aspects.  Fly-ash Bricks Gratitude Villa  has used Fly-ash bricks for all masonry walls.  Composition:   Cement – 6%, Flyash – 40%, M Sand – 10%, Crusher Sand – 44% The benefits of these bricks for the users :  The thermal Resistance value (R value) of these bricks are three tim ..read more

THE GRATITUDE Located in Pondicherry,  Gratitude Villa is a futuristic “House for tomorrow” which is built for the modern needs along with reducing carbon footprint by 50%.  Built amidst a vast spread of lush greenery, the Gratitude villa sets as an example of Modern architecture integrated with traditional design elements and aspects.  Why should your building respond to its surroundings? What is a home?  A home is where one feels comfortable in all aspects, be it visually, thermally or even the slightest factor like smell. The design of the space where one spends most of ..read more

Let me share in very simple common man’s terms, what I mean by Sustainable design. Let me take the help of geometry to explain my point. How will we define a straight line? The distance between two points, isn’t it? Which means the two points are apart!  Which means that  The beginning of the line is in one place and the end of the line is in another place. That is a straight line. What happens when a line becomes a circle ? When the end becomes the beginning – you get a cyclical process! The difference between linear systems and cyclical systems is that linear systems are not i ..read more

If we follow Maslow’s hierarchy of needs – what are the needs of a human being? What do we need from our buildings?What are the most basic things we all need from our buildings? We need a shelter, we need protection, we need stability and we need utilities like water, electricity, roads, infrastructure. These are our basic necessities. Once these necessities are met, what do we need from our BuildingsAfter our necessities are met, we need comfort. We want visual comfort, we want day light in the right proportion, we want thermal comfort, we want acoustic comfort, we want good air quality. Afte ..read more

Imagine waking up with the dawn chorus of bulbuls and koels orchestrating a melody. Tree leaves whistling with the morning breeze. The rising Sun painting the eastern sky deep orange  Imagine leaning over your balcony to smell the fragrance of fresh earth and seeing your children plucking flavourful tomatoes and pulling out juicy carrots from your organic Kitchen garden below – harvesting the day’s fruits and vegetables while playing with colourful butterflies. Imagine watering your garden with freshly harvested rainwater pulled out by from your water reservoir or pond by a larg ..read more