Amita Kulkarni

As designers of the 21st century,  Kulkarni and Tike believe in design and technological research as well as keeping agility in mind while adapting to the future. “We constantly think of our environment as a single global planet that we live on with limited resources. That automates our dedication in seeing resourcefulness as a key driver both in design and performance,” they say.

One of the critical aspects of SAV that has remained a constant across their projects of varied scales and typologies, is the ability to create a narrative and experiential architecture; one that can weave and tell a web of stories, with a focus on the ‘why’ rather than the ‘what’ to create extraordinary spaces and moments within our designs, the partners say.

“The studio embraces a combination of new digital technology and age-old crafts. We are always adapting to different constraints of time, budgets and skills with a fluid interchange between research, testing and fabricating,” say Kulkarni and Tike. The studio shapes itself around a combination of technology and crafts to bring architecture closer to nature, both in its construction and experiential qualities.