Begin with the life of a room
I start with practical questions. How do you enter? Where do you sit, meet someone, or find a quieter corner? What needs to stay open, and what needs a boundary? A café, a workplace and a home call for different answers. I’m interested in the relationship between those everyday uses and the plan, rather than treating decoration as a separate layer.
Light, movement and proportion
A chair beside a window, a passage between tables, the edge of a meeting room: these are small relationships worth studying. I look at where light falls, how furniture meets the space around it, and how one part of a room leads to another. Proportion matters at both scales—the whole room and the details you encounter at arm’s length.
Cultural memory, present-day life
Indian architecture gives me ways to think about thresholds, shaded edges and places for gathering. I’m drawn to the ideas behind these arrangements, not simply their appearance. A threshold can mark a change of pace; a shared centre can organise a room. Those references are useful when they speak to how a place is used today. They do not need to appear in every room, or in the same form.
Making room for people
Hospitality interests me beyond cafés and restaurants. It is also a question of how a home welcomes someone, or how a workplace makes room for a shared break alongside focused work. I look for a balance between gathering and privacy, expression and restraint. The writing here lets me return to those choices, consider their trade-offs, and describe what I notice without turning every reflection into a project account.