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.
Architecture, we believe, is a way-of life. Thus also constantly reflecting and making efforts to design and build context sensitive and cost effective spaces for people from different socio-economic backgrounds. Developing intuitive design amidst multiple ideologies provides interesting opportunities with every design.
Architecture | Renovations | Expansions | Interiors | Landscape then is treated as one, to enhance the experience of life inside and outside of built-environments.
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Akarmaa is a multi-disciplinary organization. It have 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.
Architecture
Conservation
Documentation
Research
Graphics
Architecture, we believe, is a way-of life. Thus also constantly reflecting and making efforts to design and build context sensitive and cost effective spaces for people from different socio-economic backgrounds. Developing intuitive design amidst multiple ideologies provides interesting opportunities with every design.
Architecture | Renovations | Expansions | Interiors | Landscape then is treated as one, to enhance the experience of life inside and outside of built-environments.
Drawings in Sand
Three Courtyard House
Tathagata, Residence
Patterns in Stone, Residence
Community Living and Farming
Research & Development Studio
COVID Doffing Unit
Commercial Complex in Brown
Jewelled Landscape
43 Brick Courses, Residence
Vocational Center, Vinoba Ashram, LAFTI
Apartments by the Temple
1000 Days of Life Nutrition Park
Apartments
MARS Dog Shelter
The ship where in Theseus and the youth of Athens returned had thirty oars, and was preserved by the Athenians down to time. They took away the old planks as they decayed, putting in new and stronger timber in their place, so much that this ship became a standing example among the philosophers, for the logical question of things that grow; one side holding that the ship remained the same, and the other, contending that it was not the same.
Simplifying it, Do you have an object which is functionally of no use now, but you still don’t want to throw it…because there is ‘something’ that does not let you throw it.
As conservation architects we try understanding that ‘something’.
A building should function efficiently and also respect the continuum of its values. We also believe that efficient functioning for an old structure is as much of a requirement as is its conservation. The owners and users of an important structure/ place form a vital part of our conservation team.
Conservation & Execution
Rajagopuram of Ammapalli Temple
Stepwell at Bapughat
Stepwell at Gachibowli
1949 Laxmi Niwas
‘You are reading this, because someone has documented it.’ We believe that the documentation of both the tangible and intangible plays an important role in knowledge archiving, sharing and learning.
Pingali Janardhan Reddy Memorial
Old House at Tiruvarur
Old House at Madras
School at Dachepalli
With age, things not only warp and acquire new textures, but also gather stories of people and find place in people’s stories. We work with aged materials, explore natural ways to its restoration and preservation while keeping its usability.
Stepwells and Water-system of Melukote
Indigo Boards of Madras
Shah Khamosh Dargah Precinct
Ittar Traditions of Hyderabad
Making efforts to design and build environmentally sensitive and cost effective houses for people from different socio-economic backgrounds. Developing intuitive, logical design amidst multiple ideologies provides interesting learning opportunities with every design.
Morning pages
What is morning pages?
Wake up and do three a4 pages of morning writing. Not less not more (to begin with).
There is no wrong way to do Morning Pages- they are not high art. They are not even “writing.” They are about anything and everything that crosses your mind– and they are for your eyes
only.
Do not over-think Morning Pages: just put three pages of anything on paper today.. and then again tomorrow.
Little Prince
Who is Little Prince
Dead Poet Society
What is dead poet society?
