https://collaborativearchitecture.com/ Architecture, interior architecture and installations by Collaborative Architecture, Mumbai and Riyadh. en https://collaborativearchitecture.com/img/logo-640.pnghttps://collaborativearchitecture.com/ https://collaborativearchitecture.com/work/material-cartographies/ https://collaborativearchitecture.com/work/material-cartographies/ Thu, 01 Jan 2026 09:00:00 GMT Collaborative Architecture Exhibition, Research Narrative Environments and Installations 1 × 1 is Collaborative Architecture’s proposal for the Bahrain Pavilion at the 2027 Venice Architecture Biennale, investigating the material dependencies of contemporary architecture through the lens of a single square meter of built space. https://collaborativearchitecture.com/work/the-measured-city/ https://collaborativearchitecture.com/work/the-measured-city/ Thu, 01 Jan 2026 09:00:00 GMT Collaborative Architecture Exhibition, Research Narrative Environments and Installations Urban Design and Infrastructure The Measured City is Collaborative Architecture’s proposal for the UAE National Pavilion at the 2027 Venice Architecture Biennale, positioning the United Arab Emirates as a living laboratory for urban futures in arid regions. https://collaborativearchitecture.com/work/the-barn/ https://collaborativearchitecture.com/work/the-barn/ Thu, 01 Jan 2026 09:00:00 GMT Collaborative Architecture Adaptive reuse, Workplace Architecture Interior Architecture The Barn transforms an industrial shed in Navi Mumbai into a contemporary workspace for Suretech Infrastructure, retaining elements of its original workshop, paint shop, and mechanical repair functions. Conceived alongside the client’s ambitions to rebrand and expand its business, the project demonstrates how a modest budget can become a catalyst for architectural reinvention. https://collaborativearchitecture.com/work/project-alpha/ https://collaborativearchitecture.com/work/project-alpha/ Wed, 01 Jan 2025 09:00:00 GMT Collaborative Architecture Housing, Research Architecture Project Alpha is Collaborative Architecture’s proposal for Initiative 99, ICON’s global challenge exploring the potential of 3D-printed housing to address affordability. The project questions the premise that housing affordability is primarily an engineering problem, solvable through cheaper materials and faster construction. https://collaborativearchitecture.com/work/miller-knoll-experience-center/ https://collaborativearchitecture.com/work/miller-knoll-experience-center/ Wed, 01 Jan 2025 09:00:00 GMT Collaborative Architecture Experience center, Retail Narrative Environments and Installations Interior Architecture The MillerKnoll Experience Center brings together the brand’s strategic ambitions with the demands of retail and daily operation. Collaborative Architecture transformed a challenging interior—its low ceilings, deep structural beams and exposed services—into an immersive setting for experiencing the collection, making the center both a brand environment and a retail interface. https://collaborativearchitecture.com/work/iconic-gateway/ https://collaborativearchitecture.com/work/iconic-gateway/ Sun, 01 Jan 2023 09:00:00 GMT Collaborative Architecture Infrastructure, Civic Urban Design and Infrastructure The Iconic Gateway marks the entrance to Diyar Al Muharraq in Bahrain. Conceived as both a pedestrian bridge and a landmark within the emerging urban landscape, it establishes a distinctive threshold to the new city. https://collaborativearchitecture.com/work/tree-of-life/ https://collaborativearchitecture.com/work/tree-of-life/ Sun, 01 Jan 2023 09:00:00 GMT Collaborative Architecture Memorial, Civic Architecture Narrative Environments and Installations The Shoah Memorial in Lyon is conceived as a place of remembrance for the Jewish victims of the Holocaust and a setting for collective reflection on one of the darkest chapters in human history. https://collaborativearchitecture.com/work/national-unity-pavilion/ https://collaborativearchitecture.com/work/national-unity-pavilion/ Fri, 01 Jan 2021 09:00:00 GMT Collaborative Architecture Pavilion, Civic Narrative Environments and Installations The National Unity Pavilion is Collaborative Architecture’s winning proposal for Notions of India, an international competition organized by Tata Steel to commemorate 75 years of Indian independence. https://collaborativearchitecture.com/work/50th-cross-road/ https://collaborativearchitecture.com/work/50th-cross-road/ Wed, 01 Jan 2020 09:00:00 GMT Collaborative Architecture Residential, Interior Interior Architecture Designed as a show apartment for PVS Developers in Kozhikode, 50th Cross Road supported the developer’s repositioning into the luxury condominium market. https://collaborativearchitecture.com/work/the-souk/ https://collaborativearchitecture.com/work/the-souk/ Tue, 01 Jan 2019 09:00:00 GMT Collaborative Architecture Pavilion, Temporary architecture Narrative Environments and Installations Selected as the winner of Dubai Design Week’s 2019 installation program, The Souk reimagines the traditional Middle Eastern bazaar as a contemporary public realm. Three identical timber pavilions form an interconnected cluster around a shared square, creating an urban microcosm where commerce, social exchange, and collective activity shape the spatial experience. https://collaborativearchitecture.com/work/the-legend/ https://collaborativearchitecture.com/work/the-legend/ Mon, 01 Jan 2018 09:00:00 GMT Collaborative Architecture Residential, Interior Interior Architecture The Legend is a 3,800-square-foot show condominium developed for Skyline Builders in Kochi to demonstrate the potential of design-led luxury residential development in South India. https://collaborativearchitecture.com/work/iconic-mosque/ https://collaborativearchitecture.com/work/iconic-mosque/ Mon, 01 Jan 2018 09:00:00 GMT Collaborative Architecture Religious, Civic Architecture Collaborative Architecture’s competition proposal for a mosque in Dubai reconsiders the building’s civic and spiritual role. It challenges familiar mosque typologies while retaining the hierarchy of the prayer space, bringing a contemporary architectural expression to a place of worship, reflection and cultural exchange. https://collaborativearchitecture.com/work/cascadia/ https://collaborativearchitecture.com/work/cascadia/ Sun, 01 Jan 2017 09:00:00 GMT Collaborative Architecture Mixed use, Tower Architecture Cascadia was a finalist entry in the two-stage international competition for the BCDA Iconic Tower, organized by the Government of the Philippines and the Bonifacio Development Authority in Manila. Designed by Collaborative Architecture in collaboration with J. https://collaborativearchitecture.com/work/sandy-hook-memorial/ https://collaborativearchitecture.com/work/sandy-hook-memorial/ Sun, 01 Jan 2017 09:00:00 GMT Collaborative Architecture Memorial, Landscape Architecture Collaborative Architecture’s 2017 competition proposal for the Sandy Hook Memorial in Newtown, Connecticut, explores how architecture and landscape can create a setting for healing, introspection, and community. https://collaborativearchitecture.com/work/peace-pavilion/ https://collaborativearchitecture.com/work/peace-pavilion/ Sun, 01 Jan 2017 09:00:00 GMT Collaborative Architecture Museum, Civic Architecture The Peace Pavilion was part of Collaborative Architecture’s finalist entry in the international competition for the Indian National War Museum in New Delhi, organized by the Government of India in 2017. https://collaborativearchitecture.com/work/apartment-by-the-bay/ https://collaborativearchitecture.com/work/apartment-by-the-bay/ Wed, 01 Jan 2014 09:00:00 GMT Collaborative Architecture Residential, Interior Interior Architecture Located in Cuffe Parade, Mumbai, Apartment by the Bay is a 180-square-meter family residence completed in 2014. Set within one of the city’s sought-after residential buildings, the apartment opens to panoramic views of the Arabian Sea. https://collaborativearchitecture.com/work/reflected-topography/ https://collaborativearchitecture.com/work/reflected-topography/ Wed, 01 Jan 2014 09:00:00 GMT Collaborative Architecture Workplace, Research campus Interior Architecture Reflected Topography is the public lobby of the Bearys Global Research Triangle, a research and development campus in Bengaluru housing facilities for international companies. Within a 32 × 32-meter hall, the project integrates reception, waiting, relaxation, circulation, and private meeting spaces into a unified architectural experience. https://collaborativearchitecture.com/work/stacked-tectonics/ https://collaborativearchitecture.com/work/stacked-tectonics/ Sun, 01 Jan 2012 09:00:00 GMT Collaborative Architecture Education Architecture Stacked Tectonics is a 2,100-square-meter primary school at the JDT Islam campus in Kozhikode, extending Collaborative Architecture’s exploration of learning environments initiated with Wrap-3 in 2006. The project builds on the premise that a school’s spatial organization can shape how children experience learning, interact with others, and discover their surroundings. https://collaborativearchitecture.com/work/inverted-topography/ https://collaborativearchitecture.com/work/inverted-topography/ Fri, 01 Jan 2010 09:00:00 GMT Collaborative Architecture Hospitality Interior Architecture Mezban reimagines a business hotel restaurant in Kozhikode as a versatile setting for dining and social exchange, transitioning from fine dining to an early-evening lounge within a restrained budget. https://collaborativearchitecture.com/work/stanley-lifestyle-store/ https://collaborativearchitecture.com/work/stanley-lifestyle-store/ Thu, 01 Jan 2009 09:00:00 GMT Collaborative Architecture Retail Narrative Environments and Installations The 25,000-square-foot flagship store for Stanley brings its residential and workplace collections together within a unified retail environment. Conceived as a neutral architectural framework, the interior allows furniture, materials, color, and accessories to establish the character of each display setting. https://collaborativearchitecture.com/work/wedge-1/ https://collaborativearchitecture.com/work/wedge-1/ Thu, 01 Jan 2009 09:00:00 GMT Collaborative Architecture Retail, Prototype Narrative Environments and Installations Wedge-1 is a full-scale prototype for a freestanding luxury retail building for Stanley Lifestyles. Built for an exhibition in Mumbai, it tested how spatial form, product display and visitor movement could shape a more experiential retail environment. The experiment became a precursor to the Stanley Lifestyle Showroom. https://collaborativearchitecture.com/work/prototype-non/ https://collaborativearchitecture.com/work/prototype-non/ Tue, 01 Jan 2008 09:00:00 GMT Collaborative Architecture Retail, Exhibition, Temporary architecture Narrative Environments and Installations Temporary architecture serves as a testing ground for ideas that inform the evolving body of work at Collaborative Architecture. Conceived as spatial experiments, these prototypes provide a framework for testing, refining and reconfiguring architectural propositions before their translation into larger-scale applications. https://collaborativearchitecture.com/work/wrap-4/ https://collaborativearchitecture.com/work/wrap-4/ Mon, 01 Jan 2007 09:00:00 GMT Collaborative Architecture Retail, Showroom Narrative Environments and Installations Wrap-4 transforms a 1,100-square-meter former warehouse into a Hyundai showroom for the KTC Group, reinterpreting the conventional typology of automobile retail. Set directly along the city’s main street, the building offers an uninterrupted 60-meter frontage that becomes the primary instrument of the architectural intervention. https://collaborativearchitecture.com/work/wrap-3/ https://collaborativearchitecture.com/work/wrap-3/ Sun, 01 Jan 2006 09:00:00 GMT Collaborative Architecture Education, Interior Interior Architecture Completed in 2006, Wrap-3 is a first-generation computer training center for an orphanage in South India. Designed for primary and secondary school students, the space takes the child’s perception as its point of departure, shaping an informal learning environment that feels familiar and inviting. https://collaborativearchitecture.com/work/house-of-cantilevers/ https://collaborativearchitecture.com/work/house-of-cantilevers/ Collaborative Architecture Residential Architecture Overlooking a scenic valley in South India, the House of Cantilevers is conceived as a sequence of projecting volumes that engage with the terrain while minimizing the building’s footprint. Organized across three levels on a contoured site, the 1,100-square-meter residence integrates spatial planning, structural expression, and passive climate strategies. https://collaborativearchitecture.com/work/rasa-totem/ https://collaborativearchitecture.com/work/rasa-totem/ Collaborative Architecture Art installation Narrative Environments and Installations Products and Objects Conceived in collaboration with artist Riyas Komu, Rasa Totem explores the intersection of art, architecture, and India’s classical aesthetic traditions. Originally proposed as a 20-meter sculptural landmark for the new terminal at Kempegowda International Airport, Bengaluru, the project translates cultural expression into a contemporary architectural form. https://collaborativearchitecture.com/work/the-spline/ https://collaborativearchitecture.com/work/the-spline/ Collaborative Architecture Pavilion, Temporary architecture Narrative Environments and Installations The Spline | Stack 2 is Collaborative Architecture’s proposal for a public pavilion at Concéntrico, the international architecture and design festival in Logroño, Spain. It draws on the square’s intersecting pedestrian routes, translating them into a timber structure that supports public interaction while keeping views across the square open. https://collaborativearchitecture.com/work/urnes-stave-heritage-center/ https://collaborativearchitecture.com/work/urnes-stave-heritage-center/ Collaborative Architecture Museum, Heritage center Architecture Developed for an international competition, the Urnes Stave Heritage Center proposes a contemporary visitor experience rooted in Nordic timber traditions and regional craftsmanship. https://collaborativearchitecture.com/work/bgrt-mumbai/ https://collaborativearchitecture.com/work/bgrt-mumbai/ Collaborative Architecture Research campus, Workplace Architecture Commissioned by the Bearys Group, BGRT Mumbai is a 40,000-square-meter campus for general and pharmaceutical research. Building on the group’s Bengaluru campus, home to Reflected Topography, the proposal retains the masterplan’s footprint while reworking its architectural expression through a climate-responsive façade strategy. The project targets LEED Platinum certification. https://collaborativearchitecture.com/work/bearys-wafira/ https://collaborativearchitecture.com/work/bearys-wafira/ Collaborative Architecture Residential, Interior Interior Architecture In Dubai Healthcare City, Bearys Wafira is conceived as a limited-edition residence where sophisticated luxury is shaped by its arid setting. Collaborative Architecture’s interior design spans the grand lobby, club floors, four condominiums and penthouse, bringing together a human-centered approach, considered detailing and a refined palette of bespoke finishes. https://collaborativearchitecture.com/work/the-vessel/ https://collaborativearchitecture.com/work/the-vessel/ Collaborative Architecture Adaptive reuse, Hospitality Architecture Interior Architecture The Vessel transforms a modest, single-story village house on the banks of a tropical river in South India into guest facilities for the Jellyfish Water Sports Club. The project reinterprets the existing structure through a measured architectural intervention, expanding its capacity and strengthening its relationship with the river landscape.