(About the studio)
A Chennai practice, partner-led since 1998. We build considered work across schools, commercial, residential, and industrial briefs — one project at a time. Each building begins with the site, the brief, and a long conversation. We draw slowly, build to last, and keep the studio no larger than the work demands.
(FEATURED WORK)
(From the founding partner)
Rayan Ibrahim
Founding Partner
(Projects)
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(Years)
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(Awards)
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(Sectors)
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AD India
2023
IIA Award
2022
ArchDaily
2021
Indesign
2024
Dezeen
2022
Architecture+
2023
(Leadership)
Each project is led by a partner whose practice has grown around its sector. The brief is met by someone who has built it before.
(Chapter 01) — Schools
Rayan founded the practice in Chennai in 2012 after a decade leading institutional projects across South India. The schools work begins with the assembly ground and the corridor; classrooms follow. Eighteen completed campuses to date, all in Tamil Nadu.
(Chapter 02) — Commercial
Aravind joined the practice in 2016 and now leads the commercial work — offices, retail, and ground-floor mixed-use across Chennai's growth corridors. The discipline is structural restraint: long spans where they earn their cost, short spans everywhere else.
(Chapter 03) — Residential
Karthik leads the residential work — from single-family homes in Adyar and Besant Nagar to interior fit-outs of older Chennai apartments. Material schedules are drawn from precedent: Tamil Nadu sandstone, locally-fired terracotta, salvage teak.
(Chapter 04) — Industrial
Vikram joined in 2019 to lead the industrial work — warehousing, light manufacturing, and logistics campuses around Sriperumbudur and the Perungudi corridor. The brief is dictated by the truck turning circle and the loading-dock height; the architecture follows from there.
