Universal Architects

You can find us over in Vipul Khand-3. We’ve got this small office right near Study Hall School in Gomti Nagar. If you’ve ever been around here during school hours, you know the traffic can be a real headache with all the rickshaws and parents, but the rest of the day is actually quite peaceful. We’ve been working on house plans and layouts in this part of Lucknow for some years now. It started out as just two of us in a single room, and now we have a bit more space for the drafting tables and chairs. We aren't like those big firms in the malls. Usually, we just sit down and sketch things by hand first before moving to the computer. People mostly come to us when they’ve bought a plot nearby and want to figure out where the bedrooms and kitchen should go. We spend a lot of time visiting sites to see how the masonry is going. Sometimes the builders don't follow the drawings exactly, which is always a bit frustrating, but we try to sort it out. We don’t really do any big advertising. Most of our work comes from families in the neighborhood who know our name. It's a nice way to work, honestly. We get to see the houses actually being built from the ground up right here in our own community. It keeps us busy enough.