Selected Works .

Houses
1996 - 2017

morphogenesis.
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Services & Skills through in-house integrated project delivery in Sustainability, Interiors, Landscape, Digital Technologies and Design Management

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West | Mahindra Lifespaces, Tata Housing, Shapoorji Pallonji, Adani Realty, Maker, Zydus, BSE
East | Ambuja Neotia, Mani Group, Shrachi, RP-SG Group, ITC Hotels
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Project Locations International | Projects in Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, UAE and South Africa

Our work has featured in publications like The New York Times, Wallpaper Magazine, The Guardian UK, Domus Italy, The Times of India,
500+ Publications Economic Times and The Hindu, among others.

75+ Awards The first Indian Practice to win a WAF Award, the Singapore Institute of Architects SIA-Getz Award, the Architects Regional Council of
Asia ARCASIA Awards and 5 time winner of the Indian Institute of Architects Award for Excellence in Architecture
Our Clients

Anshu Jain, Deutsche Bank

Co-Chairman of Global Board & Co-CEO

Rajan Mittal, Bharti Enterprises

Vice Chairman and MD

Onkar Kanwar, Apollo Tyres Ltd

Chairman

Rajeev Misra, Softbank

Head of Strategic Finance

Rajiv Memani, Ernst & Young

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Pratima Reddy, GVK Infra

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Sanjiv Goenka, RP-SG Group

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Artisan House, New Delhi
Client: Undisclosed
Status: Built
Size: 22,000 sq ft | 2.75 acres

Located in a serene farmland within the bustling

city of New Delhi, this single family home
represents the integration between landscape
and built mass. The design retains much of the
existing landscape and wherever the building
does touch the ground, the landscape follows its
profile i.e. berms up or drops down along with
the land.

The private family areas are submerged into

the ground to achieve passive cooling through
thermal banking. Vertical fins separate the blocks
from one another and provide structural support
to the entire built mass. Linear fins sloped at
varying heights accommodate functional spaces

The residence sprawls on 2.75 acres of lush

green landscape with the building located off-
center to give the clients a large front lawn. The
characteristic landscape courts influence the
micro climate.

Credentials:
• Architectural Digest India, AD50 Innovators, April
2016

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Architect House + Studio, New Delhi
Client: Undisclosed
Status: Built
Size: 16,000 sq ft | 0.37 acres

Challenges of lifestyle and the environment: the

house as a platform has been used to investigate
two issues central to design today: the family as
a social unit and the environment. The house
hence, becomes a means of demonstrating that
it is possible to meet challenges of lifestyle and
the environment.

The Indian residence: The Indian lifestyle is an

overlap with many diverse aspects; there is a
multitude of interactions, varied levels of privacy
and public exposure that are inherent in the
traditional Indian home. The Indian residence is
more of a social interaction space vs a western
notion of more public space interaction. This
residence multitasks as a house for three
generations of a family and their many visitors,
a busy workspace, and on occasion a socio-
cultural hub within the city. It embodies a
customized specificity for a contemporary Indian
Joint family, a design studio and a contemporary
working couple’s needs to bring up their children
in an interactive Indian manner. This led to the
development of a unique design brief and a
diverse spatial program. The relationships and
the variety that exists in the spatial program as a
result of the nuclear family vis-à-vis the traditional
joint family setup stands out particularly.
Credentials:
• The Ideal Home and Garden magazine, Feb 2015
• The Telegraph - Platinum, A Grand Design, Feb 2014
• Dwell Asia, Making Change, Mar/Apr 2012
• Wallpaper*, London, May 2011

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Ground Floor Plan First Floor Plan Second Floor Plan

Passive Cooling Passive Lighting

Casa Mosson, Goa

Client: Undisclosed
Status: In progress
Size: 14,000 sq ft | 0.36 acres

A Villa Development within a Common

Landcape: Located in the lush green environment
of Calangute, a landmark area of Goa, the project
is an assemblage of three separate villas, each
being a three-bedroom residence with individual
swimming pool and courtyards. The design
scheme follows a structure with the third villa/
penthouse made to rest on top of the other two
on the ground floor in a manner that provides for
ample open spaces for each villa owner.

Volumetric Play: The design of the villas explores

the volumetric play through double and triple
height spaces and is unified through the fluid
character of the common collective landscape.The
form is crafted around the existing magnificent
trees on the site and towards the view of the
meadows in the east; the trees are incorporated
in the spatial planning, and their impact is intrinsic
to the design of the façade and volumes.

Creating volumes aroung Natural Light and

Green Spaces: The spatial arrangement of the
villas is fashioned out of the interplay of volumes
and voids; governed by comfort achieved through
ideal solar orientation whilst capitalizing the view
of the paddy fields beyond.

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Art House, New Delhi

Client: Undisclosed
Status: Built
Size: 17,000 sq ft
The Art house was designed in close consultation
with the clients who are great patrons of art and
wanted the house to be a backdrop for their
art collection. The site is located in the Lutyen’s
bungalow zone in New Delhi, with considerable
site restrictions. Hence, the site planning and
layout proved to be a challenge.

The residence is developed on basis of two

curved planes enclosing a large green space with
bigger rectilinear blocks offsetting the curved
lines. Keeping the initial client brief in mind, the
surface treatment of the façade is predominantly
with glass to facilitate transparency and visual
integration of the outside greenery with the
inside spaces. This enhances the view towards
the artwork on clear, large walls that are lit
effectively from the outside. The glass walls also
help to underline the depth of the house with the
amount of daylight flowing inside through the
skin. The entry foyer on the ground floor opens
into a courtyard consisting of a backlit installation
wall to showcase artifacts and a transparent vista
runs across the house with a shallow water body
to display various artistic sculptures. The living
room is minimalistic in design with a customized
wood wall equipping the bar with hints of foliage
imparting an ecological backdrop in all the
common areas.

Credentials:
• The Ideal Home and Garden, Local and Natural,
January 2016
• Design Detail July-October, 2014
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Ground Floor Plan

First Floor Plan

Second Floor Plan

Fort House, New Delhi

Client: Undisclosed
Status: Built
Size: 5,000 sq ft

The residence provides an example of the

richness of the modern architectural idiom
in blending interior and exterior spaces and
providing a unified architectural expression. A
free standing punctured wall creates a entry court
and protects the private domain from the public.
This entry space shaded by a ficus benjamina
tree surrounded by white pebbles establishes
the minimalist mood of the residence.

Protected from public view the house opens up

to the elements with skylights and courts creating
an interlocking series of spaces where light is the
dominant organizing principle. Sunlight filtered
and diffused through the skylights and courts
continuously changes the feel of the space
through the day and through the seasons. There
is no sense of enclosure or boundary here, spaces
flow freely into one another through a house that
unfolds both in plan and in section. Walls turn
into windows without the mediation of a frame,
entire walls in frameless glass are only sublimally
present. The enclosure is decomposed into a
series of independent elements placed in blocks
of light.

Credentials:
• 21st Century Houses : 150 of the World’s Best April
2010
• Architecture + Interiors 2009
• Design Diffusion News Italy March 2008
• Cityscape Architectural Review Award 2007
• RFP Magazine Hong Kong August 2007

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Ventilation / Solar Studies
Traveler’s House, New Delhi

Client: Undisclosed
Status: Built
Size: 10,000 sq ft

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Amaya House, New Delhi

Client: Undisclosed
Status: Built
Size: 25,000 sq ft | 2.4 acres

Located away from the busy part of Delhi, the

residence is located at the Porche Farms at
Chattarpur. The residence is now a holiday home
to a London based businessman and his family.

Contemporary, yet Colonial: It was a challenge

to meet the client’s requirements for this project,
because along with general occupational brief
and spatial requirements, the client also had
very particular style in his mind that the house
was supposed to express. They wanted a colonial
English bungalow to complement their London
based lifestyle. Being a contemporary design
firm, Morphogenesis took it as a challenge to
give an architectural robust that is contemporary,
yet could be stylized as a colonial fashion. The
architectural form is an overlap of two simple
forms that resembles the English alphabet ‘T’. The
proportions of the house are taken in a manner,
so as to accentuate the linear elements.

This requires developing the scheme on the

three dimensional approach. Therefore, the plan,
form and elevations were being developed right
from the beginning stages at the drawing board.
The windows, doors, vertical penetrations and
colonnades indicated an inclination to the colonial
style of building, yet were kept minimalistic and
contemporary.

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ground floor plan landscape strategy

sections
Ananta House, New Delhi
Client: Undisclosed
Status: Under Construction
Size: 15,000 sq.ft. | 3.68 acres

The project site is located in Chattarpur, Delhi.

The special feature of the site was that it had
a lot of trees along including three big champa
(Plumeria Alba) trees. The client wanted the
architecture to have a stand-alone identity
yet closely interact with the overall landscape
design which was designed by Jencks Squared.
The landform’s curving surfaces lift up to form
sweeping curves of the roof of the building. The
water (small ponds and swimming pools) tie the
cycle together, emphasizing the nexus where
building morphs to become landform.

Form: Idea of the form is taken from Infinity

symbol and married to the idea of courtyard
design. It’s a very three dimensional tectonic
form. The art of traditional brick masonry, in
texture, pattern and three dimensional form was
revisited.

Craft: The traditional craft of brick laying

is disappearing. There are huge number of
intricate patterns that this project embodies
when observing three dimensionally, almost
like crafted and molded by hand approach. The
unique approach to design required creating
different patterns using bricks for façade, and
fenestrations to finalize their location on site
based on visual attraction and functional.

Credentials:
• Architectural Digest, Earth & Beyond, October 2015

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Urban Oasis, New Delhi
Client: Undisclosed
Status: In Progress
Size: 14,000 sq.ft. | 1.1 acres

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Selected Awards
International
International Architecture Awards, Office Building Concept, 2015
Laureate, SIA Getz Architecture Prize for Emergent Architecture, Singapore 2014
ARCASIA Awards for Architecture, Honorable Mention, 2014
8th Saint Gobain Gypsum International Trophy, London 2012
AIT Award, Germany 2012
Retail City Awards, Commendation, Dubai 2011
FutureArc Green Leadership Award, Singapore 2011
Cityscape Awards, Highly Commended Seal of Distinction, Emerging Markets, Dubai 2010
20+10+X, World Architecture Community Awards, Winner 2010
International Design Awards, Winner, (Architecture), USA 2009
World Architecture Festival Awards, Best Learning Building, Barcelona 2009
Cityscape Architectural Awards, Highly Commended Seal of Distinction, Dubai 2009
20+10+X World Architecture Community Awards, Citation, 2009
ARCASIA Award, Finalist, 2009
Green Good Design™ Award- The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban
Studies and the Chicago Athenaeum, 2009
AIQ Awards, Project of the Year, Israel 2008
MIPIM Asia Awards, Finalist, 2008
ED+C Excellence in Design Awards, Honorable mention, 2008
National
Architectural Digest Top 50 Influential Architects, 2016
CWAB Award, India’s top Architects of the Decade, 2015
Architectural Digest Top 50 Influential Architects, 2015
NDTV, Design and Architecture Awards, 2015
CW Interiors, India’s Top Innovative Architects, 2014
A+D Award, Office/Commercial Interiors, Special Mention, 2013
HUDCO Award, Commendation, New & Innovative Town Design Solutions/Eco-Cities, 2013
Indian Institute of Architects Award for Excellence in Architecture, Public, 2013
CRISIL Real Estate Ratings, 7 Star Rated, 2013
GRIHA Exemplary Practice Recognition, Passive architectural features, 2013
Indian Institute of Architects Award for Excellence in Architecture, Commercial, 2012
Construction Week India Awards, Commercial Project of the Year, 2012
Celebration of Architecture Awards, Winner, Best Real Estate Development, 2012
Indian Institute of Architects Award for Excellence in Architecture, Residential, 2011
Indian Institute of Architects Award for Excellence in Architecture, Public, 2011
Artist in Concrete Award, Commercial, Landscaping, Architecture, Big, 2011
Property Awards for Commercial Property Excellence, Office Architect of the year, 2011
Indian Institute of Indian Designers, Anchor Award, Winners (Public Places-Regional), 2011
ArchiDesign Awards, Winner, Best Commercial Design and Interior Design, 2010
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Selected Publications
International
WA100 (BD), World’s Largest Architecture Practices, UK, January 2016
The Guardian, Rooftop cities, December 2015
WA100 (BD), World’s Largest Architecture Practices, UK, January 2015
Architecture@15, Singapore, Nov 2014
Indonesia Design, A Pearl in a Desert, Sep-Oct 2014
WA100 (BD), World’s Largest Architecture Practices, UK, January 2014
University Architecture, China, 2013
The Language of Office Design II, Hong Kong, June 2013
WA100 (BD), World’s Largest Architecture Practices, UK, January 2013
28th International PLEA Conference, Opportunities, Limits & Needs, Peru, November 2012
Compasses, Morphogenesis: Some works, Italy, November 2012
Pure Luxury, World’s Best Houses, Australia, September 2012
House Trends #45, In the Heart Of the Desert, Europe, 2012
Greening Asia, Singapore, May-June 2012
The Language of Office Design II, Hong Kong, April 2012
Dwell Asia, Making Change, Singapore, March-April 2012
Atlas of World Architecture, Hong Kong, 2012
CNN, Road to Rio, UK, February 2012
Architecture in India by Rahul Mehrotra, Germany, October 2011
Green Building & Design, Chicago, October 2011
Future Arc, Singapore, August 2011
Perspective Global, Hong Kong, August 2011
Images changeantes de I’Inde et I’Afrique, Paris, June 2011
Wallpaper*, London, May 2011
Green Building & Design, Chicago, April 2011
The New York Times, New York, April 2011
Detail in Architectuur, Germany, February 2011
World Architecture News, National Tax Headquarter Competition, UK, February 2011
Architect AIA, Watch Your Back, New York, February 2011
Architecture Australia, It’s not what it looks, it’s what it does, Australia, May-June 2010
Architecture Asia, Malaysia, March 2010
RFP Magazine, Indian Architecture: A paradigm shift, Hong Kong, May –June 2010
National
Architectural Digest India, AD50 Innovators, April 2016
Architect and Interiors India, Hot 100, March 2016
Architectural Digest, Talking Home, January 2016
Platform, Icons of the Design World, September 2015
Vogue India, Casa Vogue in Design, August 2015
India Today Home, A Fine Balance, June 2015
Architectural Digest, March 2015
The Times of India, Smart city begins with sustainability, February 2015
HT Premium Homes, Indigenous Vocabulary, January 2015
Deccan Herald, Urban designer proposes unified agency for drains, December 2014
The Times of India, Kids need to have free run of city, November 2014
The Hindu, Canals can, September 2014
Design Today, Morphogenesis bags SIA-GETZ Architecture Prize 2014, August 2014
Architect & Interiors India, Soapbox, Be Indian, try Indian, July 2014
IA&B, Humanizing Architecture through Innovations, June 2014
Architecture + Design, Rhythmic Articulation, May 2014
The Journal of the Indian Institute of Architects, March 2014
The Telegraph - Platinum, A Grand Design, February 2014
Home & Design Trends, Inspired by Elements of Nature, November 2013
Outlook Business, Aces of Space, November 2013
CW Interiors, India’s Top Ten Innovative Architects, September 2013
Architect and Interiors India, July 2013
All About Architecture Education in India, Volume 2, 2013
Indian Architect & Builder, Student Housing for IILM, June 2013
Tehelka, Urban Design, May 2013
Design Today, Hospitality Design, May 2013
Architecture + Design, High Street Nature, April 2013
Elle Décor, In the Studio of Sonali Rastogi, February-March 2013
Business Today, Water in its Veins, January 2013
PotPurri, The Uttorayon Experience, November-December 2012
IFJ, Defining the Space, November-December 2012
Pool Magazine, The True Nature of Things, November 2012
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