A small apology, and a big hello

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We’ve been a little AWOL.

Not absent in spirit,
just deep inside mud,
drawings,
mountains,
conversations,
sites,
late nights,
early mornings,
and a lot of becoming.

A lot has happened in the last two months.
And before anything else,
we want to pause and say hello again.

And wish you a gentle,
grounded,
abundant New Year.

May this be the year
you build what you’ve been dreaming of —
homes, studios, communities,
courage, health, fitness,
businesses, new habits,
softer lives, braver choices.

Whatever it is you are choosing to grow,
we wish it finds good soil and nurturing.

2025 closed with a quiet celebration for us.

We were honoured with two FOAID Awards.
One for Tiny Farm Fort.
And another for Kalga Banaras
(in collaboration with Brown Dot Collaborative)

We receive these not as trophies,
but as reminders.
That slower materials,
older wisdom,
still have a place in the future of architecture.

And then,
new journeys began.

We are currently working on:

– A zero-cement eco-resort inside the forests of Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve.
– A cluster of fairytale cottages in Dehradun, inspired by Ghibli worlds and Disney's quiet magic.
– A tiny cob house near Narendranagar, perched in the Himalayan foothills.
– And a boutique resort in Sarnath, where Eastern UP architecture meets Buddhist spatial philosophy.

Alongside this, we have been selected for the next Godrej Design Collective Fellowship.

Over the coming year, we will be researching how straw can become a serious building material in the Himalayan belt, turning agricultural stubble (now burned as waste) into low-carbon, high-performance homes.

Homes that are warmer.
Healthier.
Kinder to mountains.
Kinder to air.
Kinder to people.

In the last few months, our studio has quietly grown.
New architects.
New interns.
New hands.
New energies.

And with that, new responsibilities
and new creative challenges
we are deeply looking forward to.


2025 ended for us at the Godrej Conscious Collective.
And in a way, it felt symbolic.
Not like an ending,
more like standing on a ridge between two journeys.

We found ourselves in rooms filled with people whose work has quietly shaped how we think about building, living, and choosing differently.

Ellora Hardy,
from IBUKU,
who showed the world
that bamboo is not “alternative”,
it is intelligent.

Arthur Mamou-Mani,
who keeps reminding us that
code, craft, and climate
can belong to the same future.

And in between talks and pauses and meals,
friendships deepened.
Conversations slowed down.
Especially with Rahul Bhushan from Live North,
Sagar from Sa Ladakh,
where the conversations drifted far beyond projects
and into questions of
why we are really doing any of this at all.

Seeing the work of the previous fellows was quietly confronting.

Not because it felt intimidating.
But because it felt clarifying.

It made something settle inside us.

This year, we don’t just want to do more work.
We want to do deeper work.

We want to sharpen the craft of crafting spaces.
Push our own edges.
And learn how technology and ecology
can stop fighting for space,
and start building futures together.

2025 was generous to us.
It brought appreciation.
Awards.

Projects that now stand in the world
carrying pieces of our hands,
our mistakes,
our questions, our hope.

We are deeply grateful.

But we’re only getting started.

Because no one climbs a mountain to live on the summit.
You pause.
You breathe.
And then you either come down
to find new mountains,
or you look up and realize
higher ridges are calling your name.

Here’s to climbing again.

We are stepping into this year with gratitude,
curiosity, and muddy hands.

Thank you for being here.
For reading.
For supporting.
For believing in regenerative futures.

Here’s to building again,
and building better.

Love and light,
Raghav and Ansh

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