OUR STORY…
On a cold December night, sitting in the small hut of ‘Cuckoo Forest School,’ seeds of Akarmaa were sown. One of the interpretations of ‘Akarmaa’ is ‘Selfless Action’ where both the doer and done cease to exist. ‘Akarmaa’ also means to ‘unlearn.’
Akarmaa is a multi-disciplinary organization. It has been working as a collective for the past ten years towards developing design and advocacy in the fields of heritage, environment and education.
Akarmaa believes in sustainable practices for newly built spaces and of the old spaces that have shown resilience through time. Akarmaa also believes in the process of doing while constantly reflecting and making efforts to design, restore and build context sensitive, cost-effective spaces for people from different socio-economic backgrounds; and approach conservation with an intent to preserve values that need to be carried forward from the past while introducing aspects to support modern functional needs.
Participations

Arugu :
A Mouse Filled Her House
Death of Architecture :

FACE Foundation :
Ittar Traditions in Hyderabad

Tracing Narratives :
Children of Landscape

Tracing Narratives :
City UNfold

ISOLA Stepwells
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Akarmaa Family
Akarmaa belongs to everyone who has crossed paths, including you…

Aathirai Selvapandian
Aathirai Selvapandian
Aathirai is a conservation Architect. She organizes Mugai (heritage walks). She believes in parallel and subaltern history. She loves to work with children, travelling and sketching.

Akshaya Ramakrishnan
From the day she remembers onwards, Akshaya has been rooted with how to help each other and grow together. She pursues things positively with her outgoing nature.

Akshitha Patlolla
Akshitha is a civil engineer by profession. She has been actively co ordinating and managing varied projects in Hyderabad. She is trained as a classical dancer.

Aniruth Triambak
Aniruth likes to research meanings, stories, and layers of artforms, especially music. He has a keen interest to study the history and genesis of objects and spaces .

Arjun Govind
Arjun Govind designs experiences through stories. He believes in weaving of spaces through tales that form that derives the built form. He is the founder of Kuudu, an indiscipline practice of architecture.

Arunima Shankar
Arunima Shankar is an Architect, Researcher, an Educator and Heritage Conservationist by profession. She is the co- founder of ‘Akarmaa’. She is passionate towards design and execution of both built and unbuilt spatial experiences.

Ayyalu R. Kumaran
Kumaran started out working as a cinematographer in commercials and serials. He has been behind the lens for a number of projects, including the photo documentation of all 108 tanks in Melukote.

Badrinath
Badri loves sketching, playing the guitar, origami and sculpting. Exploring new materials and working on ground is his favourite part of being an architect.

Chinmayee Mokshagundam
Chinmayee is enthusiastic architect, who believes architecture as a way of life, beyond profession. She enjoys singing and looks forward to explore the idea of notations in her architectural practice.

Divya Keerthana
Divya believes that even the bouncing of light off the walls of a built space can bring joy. She is also the founder of Dhuni, an art studio for self-reflection and evolution.

Hariharan Baskaran
Hariharan is exploring different mediums and softwares to communicate his thoughts and ideas. He loves to travel, explore places and document them.

Hiranya
Hiranya is a thoughtful designer with profound interest in historic and heritage structures who believes there is no better sustainable approach than conservation.

Kaushik Kumar
Kaushik Kumar
Kaushik Kumar, who is the co-founder of Akarmaa Foundation is an Architect and Heritage conservationist by profession. He holds interest in conscious living practices and explores architecture as a tool to understand oneself better. He believes in persistence and collective efforts of individuals.

Kausik Srestaluri
He is the founder of 1.6 frames, an architectural studio based out to explore spaces through the means of photography. Susamyathi is an initiative to document unexplored spaces across India.

Muneeb Ur Rahman
Muneeb is an architecture student from Hyderabad. He likes to learn about Parametric Architecture as well as different types of building materials, properties and their
uses.

Madhumanjari Selvaraj
Madhumanjari is an architect who has interest in conservation. She has been focusing on working with community and reviving defunt wells that are in many place, the only source of water, through Public Well Revival Movement.

Mirra Kannan
Kaushik Kumar
A conservation architect by profession, Mirra believes in the importance of contextually driven design and the depth of knowledge. Founder of ‘Paraa’ – a platform to explore sounds and music within.

Priyanka S
She is the only architect who has documented the thousand year old traditional water system of Melukote. She is also an active part of Centre for Learning by Doing.

Sreehitha
Sreehitha loves to sketch, write and gaze at stars in the night. Learning new dimensions in the field of Design and Architecture makes her happy.

Sagar Krishnamoorthy
Sagar is an architecture student who is also interested in art, music and writing. To learn something new everyday drives him.

Renga Bashyam
Renga Bashyam is an architect with a special inclination to illustrations. He loves making movie posters and writing screenplay for short stories.

Rakesh Doraswamy

Sriraj Tumuluri
Siraj is always willing to learn new things and has been coordinating the various activities happening at the learning Centre with passion and creativity.

Stephan Raj
Steephan Raj is an architect with a profound love for the past and present. He loves to observe and gain inspiration from both to shape a visionary future. He believes in small day-to-day efforts.

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