Sharma Gaurav Architect

The office is right here on Barewali Road in Asha Puri. It's a small place, number 161. Mostly, the days go by with Gaurav looking over blueprints and scribbling notes on yellow legal pads. The sunlight hits the front desk around noon. People from the neighborhood drop in sometimes just to ask about a wall they want to knock down or a new room they want to add. It gets a bit noisy outside when the school buses go by, but inside it’s usually just the sound of the ceiling fan and someone typing. We have stacks of old drawings tucked away in the corners because we never really throw anything out. There is a small tea stall just down the road that brings over cups twice a day. It isn’t a fancy setup with glass walls or anything like that. Just a couple of desks, some sturdy chairs, and a lot of tracing paper. Some mornings are slow and we just sit and talk about the local news. Other days, the phone won’t stop ringing and everyone is rushing to get to a site visit before the sun goes down. Most people know where we are because of the big tree out front. We’ve been here a while now. The walls could use a fresh coat of paint, but the work keeps us too busy to worry about that. It feels like home after so many years of working in this same spot.