aranyā
Landscape | Architecture | Research | Art | Advocacy
आरण्य : Wild | Of the Wild | Jungleborn
आरण्य : Wild | Of the Wild | Jungleborn
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.
WILD
We believe in a beauty that is abundant yet economical, creative and unbound, spaces that break enforced categories and design that escapes disciplinary boundaries. We hope our works act as seeds, and take on lives of their own, growing with their users, events and environments.
ENTANGLED
Our design emerges from relationships. Relationships with our craftsmen, contractors, collaborators, clients, and circumstances; deep engagements with our sites, with the plant and animal inhabitants of our sites, and kinship with the songs of sunlight, water, wind, wood and stone.
ROOTED
Our projects are rooted in place, in local materials, indigenous crafts and methods, individual clients postures and preferences, in hydrology and geology, climate and culture. Our designs grow from research of traditional ways of living, growing and building harmoniously with place.