1. What is the inspiration behind your design firm’s name?
Our firm is called I’m D’sign. For us creativity is an extension of one’s own personality.
2. What is that one design book/movie you found inspiring?
Tadao Ando. His spaces don’t limit a person to its physical realm but rather have their own inherent soul.
3. In what ways does your personality reflect in your designs?
In the same way, I enjoy making spaces that go beyond a physical or a visual realm. They are timeless yet respond to their context.
4. What inspires you in your day-to-day architectural practice?
I always keep watching people and now they behave in certain spaces. That constant study and analysis – how people interact with different spaces is what inspires and informs my work.
5. Who is your favourite architect?
The subject of my favourite book Tadao Ando!
6. Do you have a signature style?
For me my audience and context set the brief for my spatial language and that is also something that defines my signature style. Rather that a particular aesthetic style I am more driven to create spaces that are meant to meet the brief while also making sure that whatever is designed is designed with a keen eye for detail, aesthetics and boldness.
7. The one design philosophy you swear by?
I don’t go by trends. For me it’s the people, the context and their requirements that inform my practice and my work.
8. The one design quote you find timeless?
Design locally, think globally by Rodney Fitch
9. A hobby that sets you apart?
Handy work! I pull things apart and then find new ways of putting them together. New tools and techniques really attract me!
10. A message to those few young practising Architects out there?
Dream big but more importantly work hard.
11. Which design blog/page/handle do you follow avidly?
None in specific, I take my inspiration from various mediums of research and even more from life experiences and observed behavioural patterns and tendencies. I do make it a point to stay up to date, and believe there is learning in everything and in what anyone is doing.