Academic Projects

My academic projects have ranged from designing hospitality spaces, educational projects, workspaces to curating exhibitions and designing illustrative narratives. My sense of understanding the users and stakeholders as well as getting a grasp on the context is very strong. My design approach is to keep the needs of the human being and the context at the very centre. In the process, I have developed a skill of storytelling through spatial design. My design sensibilities have only grown with every academic project which will be reflected in my proffesional practice.

Recitals of Sikkim

(Boutique hotel in Sikkim, Gangtok)

Sikkim is a land of culturally rich stories and tales that travel around with you as you traverse the state. The oral narratives have that the Teesta river was wholly and deeply in love with Rangeet, who is passionate and fierce and transcends from the same mountains. This project is the recital of the story of two rivers. I have used spatial design as a tool to make the users experience the different emotions and experieces that the story makes me go through. The rising action of the story is ‘long scenic acess’ and ‘love and acceptance’, the conflict in the story is defined by ‘divergence, distraction and turbulence’ and the falling action of the story is assosciated with ‘reflecion’ and ‘reconcillation’. As one walks through the different spaces of the hotel, the interior space making elements come together to express the respective emotion of the story.