006 | Sameep Padora + Associates

“Sometimes the ordinary or the everyday also has enough surprise within it if we look at it in a particular way.”
In the interview with us, Sameep shares how research for a design became a research project, how the firm’s constant search for the surprise element in architecture, their effort to erase the differentiations between ground and building, and their non-linear design process.
Sameep Padora and Associates is an architecture office based in Mumbai. As a practice, sP+a believe that India’s vast breadth of socio-cultural environments require multifarious means of engaging with the country’s varying contexts. sP+a’s practice questions the nostalgia involved with the static ‘museumification’ of craft and tradition as well as the nature of what today comprises the ‘regional’ in contexts amplified by their place in global and regional networks.