Kumar Vijay Architect

If you head over to Sector-71 in Mohali, you can find Kumar Vijay’s office at 3298. It’s not a huge place, just a workspace where we spend a lot of time drawing and looking at site maps. Architecture sounds like it might be all about pretty pictures, but for us, it’s mostly about making sure a building actually works for the people inside it. We spend hours measuring things and arguing over where a window should go so the light hits right. Being in Sas Nagar, we see a lot of new things going up, and we try to do our part by making sure our designs are sensible. We don’t go for those over-the-top styles that don’t fit the neighborhood. Instead, we look at what’s practical and what will last. The desks are usually covered in blueprints and half-drunk cups of tea. It’s a quiet spot most of the time, unless we are debating a structural detail. We’ve been at this address for a bit and people know they can just drop in if they have a question about a plot or a renovation. We aren't interested in being the biggest firm in Punjab, we just want to do decent work for the folks who come to us. It is a lot of staring at screens and paper, but seeing a house actually get built from those drawings is still a good feeling after all these years.