Clients
The client shapes the home
How a project turns out depends as much on the client as on the architect.
You are the most important person in the process
Every decision in your project belongs to you. Our job is to make each one clear: what the options are, what each will cost, and what it means for the way you will live. We guide, you decide, and we both stay curious. The best homes come from clients who are open to questions, and from a studio that listens as carefully as it speaks.
It can feel like a journey into yourself. We ask where you grew up, what your mornings feel like, and how you want your children to remember this home. Many clients tell us at the end, “We would never have thought this was possible.”
How we work with you
We begin with how you live. Before we draw, we spend time on your mornings, your rituals, who visits, what you will own and how you want to feel. We write it down with you, line by line. This program is the most important stage, and everything after it grows from it.
We decide together, with the cost in view. You have one point of contact. Every design idea is checked against a live cost sheet, so you see what a change means in rupees before you decide.
We stay until it is built right. We design and build, so the people who drew it are the people who make sure it is built as drawn.
Homeowners building from abroad
Building in India from far away
We have designed and built 50+ homes for NRI families. Building in India from thousands of miles away is not only an architectural project. It is a risk management exercise, and we act as your eyes, ears and voice on site.
One point of contact
We design and build, so you deal with one team and one point of contact from the first sketch to the keys, and never with contractors. In India this is often called a turnkey project. Ours is led by the architect, because we build only what we design. You see every decision, cost and site photograph through regular reports and video calls, whatever the time zone. If you prefer, you can appoint a project management consultant of your own to review the work independently. We are glad to work with one, openly.
The climate comes first
A house designed for the climate of London, Dubai or California will not be comfortable in Bangalore without constant air conditioning. We begin with the sun, the wind and the way your family lives.
Your home deserves local expertise with global accountability.
Aerospace and deep-tech
Precision is a standard
Since 2014 we have designed workplaces for aerospace and deep-tech teams: cleanrooms, assembly halls and offices that have to meet the same standard as the work done inside them.
We design and build. We draw every detail and coordinate every consultant, in particular air conditioning (HVAC) and plumbing and fire (PHE), before anything is built. What has been agreed on paper is what gets built on site. Because design, coordination and construction sit with one team, we keep cost under control and deliver a very high-quality building.
What clients say
After the project is done
“We used D+R Design for conceptualizing, designing and building our home and we are quite happy that it turned out to be a wise decision. Their professional approach to the whole process made the journey smooth and enjoyable for us. Deepak and Rashmi were able to deliver what we wanted.” Joojur Ramakrishnan
“They spent several hours understanding our requirements, transformed that into drawings and continued to oversee the execution. They have a keen eye to detail, quality focussed and above all continue to monitor the costs and schedules very closely.” Pankaj Ramani, Vice President, Mphasis
An honest note on fit
How we like to work
We do our best work with clients who:
Respect the design process, and let design finish before construction starts.
Want considered design, not shortcuts.
Want a thinking partner, not only a drawing service.
Value craft and quality over the lowest price.
Start from their own life, not only from a photograph.
Talk openly about budget.
Care about light, air and climate.
Our fee for a new building starts at ₹25 lakh, fixed and agreed before we begin. We take on a small number of projects each year, so each gets our full attention. If we are not the right fit, we will say so honestly and help you find someone who is.
If you read this and feel something shift, this may be the practice you have been looking for.