Designing Workplaces for Focus, Meetings and Shared Breaks
A workplace is not one activity repeated across a floor. Desks, meetings, training and shared breaks ask for different arrangements, and the plan can make those differences easier to read.
I design spaces for the everyday: a café table, a shared workplace, a quieter corner at home.
I am Rohit Pasalkar, a Pune-based interior designer and founder of prāngaṇa, the studio formerly known as Shree Designs. This is a place for my design thinking: how people arrive, gather, work, eat and live, and how the ordinary choices of a room can make those uses clear.
A note from my practice
A room is understood through the way it is used.
I begin with the practical questions: where someone enters, what they need to do, where they might pause, and how one part of a space relates to another. Material and atmosphere follow from that reading.
Read about my approachA project in two films
Secret Sambar: from material choices to an open restaurant.
Part 1 looks back at an earlier construction stage. Part 2 follows the site decision and the design journey behind the completed restaurant on Senapati Bapat Road, Pune.
Watch both films
Recent writing
Journal
How Light and Furniture Shape a Comfortable Home
Comfort at home is not one finish or a particular style. It can begin with where a seat faces, how people gather, what sits within reach and how different layers of light meet the rooms.
Why Indian Courtyards Still Matter
Courtyards were never just empty space. They were the spatial idea that made Indian homes work — bringing daylight, air, community, and memory into a single open centre. I keep returning to them. Not as nostalgia, but as a question.
Let us begin with a conversation.
Whether you are designing a home, a cafe, a restaurant, or a hospitality space, the best projects begin before the floor plan. They begin with understanding the story the space must carry. I would like to hear about yours.
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