āranya is a young rural design and research studio, working at the intersection of landscape architecture, architecture, art, research and ecology. Our work is imagined as a series of collaborations across disciplines and species, with co-designers, co-makers and co-habitants of our sites.

We have faith in a beauty that emerges from ecological processes and transcends traditionally imposed boundaries of built and unbuilt, inside and outside, natural and artificial.

Currently our studio is engaged in multiple landscape, architecture, interior and research projects across India in collaboration with award winning design studios and academics.

We are deeply tied to place and are deeply invested in research and advocacy on rural socio-hydrological resilience systems, indigenous wild food and foraging networks, and public spaces within our indigenous rural context. Our studio is partly based out of an orchard and is a part of rural farmlands, we continually use this luxury to experiment more deeply with farming, rewilding, afforestation, drought and flood resilient design as well as new practices and materials of construction.