Co-founded by architects Vipuja and Krushnakant Parmar, UA Lab (Urban Architecture Collaborative) is an Ahmedabad-based multidisciplinary design studio, offering design consultancy in architecture, landscaping, and interior design. With a design process focused on the basic parameters of scale, proportions, daylight, ventilation and climatic comfort in the built environment, their design ideology aims to facilitate a synchronisation between innovation, humane spaces, and ambitious aspirations. In this 9,500 sq.ft. bungalow for a family on a massive plot, the designers have created a house that satisfies the clients’ specific needs and expectations.

Ar. Sanjay Patil established his practice Environ Planners in Nashik in 1981. Wholeheartedly supporting the 3R maxim of ‘Reduce, Recycle, Reuse’ – Environ Planners is firmly rooted in the ideology of sustainable design. The story started with a large barren plot on which Patil built a small farmhouse for his own family, and seized the opportunity to use a series of arches that he had procured from an old wada. To go with the farmhouse feel, lots of plants were planted all around. Twenty years and two hundred other wada-retrieved elements later, the story evolved; the plants grew taller, the flowers blossomed, the family needs changed… and the little weekend dig became a 5500 sq ft vibrant, engaging, and contemporary home with all the features of an old wada!