Shallan Hardeep Singh Architect

Our office is tucked away in House No.64 on Street No.3 in Aman Nagar. It is a quiet enough street most of the time, except when the kids are playing outside. We spend a lot of our hours looking at big sheets of paper and drawing lines that eventually turn into someone’s actual home. It is interesting work because no two days are really the same around here. One morning we might be out checking on a concrete foundation and by the afternoon we are back in the office trying to make a staircase fit into a tight spot. We do not go for anything too flashy or modern if it does not work. We just try to make sure the buildings will actually be comfortable for the people living in them. There are always a lot of pencils and rulers lying around on the desks. It gets a bit cluttered when we have several different projects going at once, but we manage. We like being in Aman Nagar because it feels like a real community where people know each other. We do not have a receptionist or anything formal like that. If you come by the house, you will probably just see us working at our desks. We try to listen to what folks want, even if their ideas are a bit all over the place at first. It takes a lot of time to get a house right.