Studio Saransh is an architectural firm based in Ahmedabad, India, operating in the fields of architecture, planning, and interior design. The firm leads a design conversation on sustainability and changing context, with an intense focus on form and materiality. Saransh believes that good design is generated from strong concepts that evolve as a response to various factors. The manifestation of the summation of these ideas is what drives design, across diverse typologies at Saransh.
With these ideologies in place, KBM Sweet Shop, one of their recently completed project is a project involving the renovation of a primary retail outlet of a prominent traditional sweets manufacturer, based in Ahmedabad.
KBM Sweet Shop is the primary retail outlet of a 175 years old traditional sweets and savouries manufacturer, based in Ahmedabad. The project involved the renovation of their pre-existing building’s facade and interior.
Inspired from the texture of Indian sweets which is created by the multiplication of a single unit ingredient, bricks became the ‘ingredient’ here. The developed form softens all edges of the building creating a playful facade, resulting in a red textured layer, enabling it to stand out amongst an otherwise white and grey neighbourhood. The walls on ground extend beyond the building like a fort wall, hosting an archway, further relating to the sense of entry typical to the old city.
The shop’s interior is envisaged as a ‘gallery’ for sweets, intending to act as a neutral backdrop to an inventory so vibrant and colourful, effectively disappearing in the visual plane, allowing the products to stand out.