The position, stated plainly
This practice designs modern, and brief-first. Form follows function, but that phrase is so old it has stopped meaning anything, so here is the working version used every day:
the design lives at the intersection of the client's aesthetic need, the current trend, and the budget. Those three curves cross at a point, and that point is the tangent the project can actually explore. Not the style the architect wishes he had been hired to build. Not the magazine building the client showed a photograph of. The tangent.
Three buildings from the record, three different tangents, one method.
The office that had to sell
Kirloskar Brothers, Office Interiors, Patel Chowk, Delhi, 2006. Four and a half thousand square feet of office fit-out where the client's aesthetic need was stated as a business metric: workstations laid out for sales productivity. The recorded programme reads like a sales floor plan, because it was one: spacious reception and waiting, manager cabin, workstations, director cabin.
The tangent here ignored trend almost entirely. A 2006 Delhi office could have been whatever the year's fashion was. The brief's demand was flow: visitor received, sales team observed, director buffered. The design followed the org chart. Nobody who walks that office calls it a statement building. Every person who works in it knows where everything is without thinking, which is what the client was buying.
The resort that had to feel like a destination
Golden Stone Resort, Ramghat Road, 2021. Sixty by one hundred and fifty feet of covered area holding four different businesses in one building: ground-floor restaurant and party halls, basement banquet, three floors of rooms, front lobby.
Here the client's aesthetic need was atmosphere, and the trend curve actually helped: district hospitality was moving toward destination experiences, and the budget allowed the lobby and banquet volumes to be generous where it mattered. The tangent landed on spatial drama in the public floors and quiet efficiency above. The same budget spent evenly would have produced a mediocre version of both.
The house that had to be planned before it was pretty
Tarun Varshney Residence, Railway Road, 2014. Five thousand square feet, greenfield, construction and interiors together. A residential tangent sits differently: the client's aesthetic need is usually borrowed from a building he visited, the trend curve is whatever his circle is currently building, and the budget is real family money with a timeline.
The method holds regardless. The plan was resolved first, room by room against how the household actually runs; the elevation was then derived from the plan's massing instead of being painted onto it. The house looks resolved because it is resolved, which is what "form follows function" was supposed to mean before it became a poster.
What this means for a client
Bring all three curves to the table and say them out loud. What you want it to feel like. What the current trend is doing to your market. What the money actually is. The honest architect locates the tangent and designs there; the flatterer designs at your favourite curve and lets the other two take revenge during construction.
The rest of the record is in the work archive, organised by type and place, and the engagement stages that carry any of these projects are on how we work.