Established South Bangalore — where most of the good work is renovation, re-planning and adding to houses that are already there.
JP Nagar and the layouts around it were built decades ago, and that is precisely what makes the work interesting. The houses are sound, the plots are regular, the trees are mature and the neighbourhood is finished. What has changed is the families inside them.
So the brief here is rarely a blank plot. It is a house that needs to work differently: a ground floor re-planned, an upper floor added, a courtyard opened where there was a store room, a kitchen brought into the century it is being used in.
The largest part of the work — walls moved, light brought in, circulation rationalised, services re-routed.
Always a structural question before a design one; the existing frame is assessed before anything is promised.
Full-home interiors in established houses and apartments.
Where an old house is being replaced rather than repaired.
This is the first question in South Bangalore and it deserves an honest answer rather than the one that suits the architect. Sometimes the structure is sound, the location is irreplaceable and renovation is plainly right. Sometimes the frame is tired, the floor heights are wrong for what you want, and every rupee spent repairing is spent badly. We assess and say which — including when that means less work for us.
The assessment is a short, paid stage that ends in a clear recommendation, and it is worth doing before any design fee is committed. More under renovation and restoration.
An established layout brings party walls, mature trees, narrow access and neighbours with reasonable opinions. Each is a real constraint on sequencing and on what can be built. Designing with them in mind from the first sketch is the difference between a smooth site and a contested one.
