Every project begins with three questions: who is this for, why are we doing it, and why does it matter. We answer them through fieldwork, benchmarking, prototyping and play.
For the new Karachi Public School campus in Buffer Zone, we began not with a massing model but with a research brief: 30 classrooms and up to 1,000 students on a 12,870 sq ft plot.
The answer cannot be horizontal. Our study benchmarks Karachi's schools against the vertical campuses of Singapore, Hong Kong and Australia — asking how dense, land-poor schools deliver the same educational value as spacious ones, and how design earns the trust of parents at the gate.
classrooms stacked vertically — basement, ground and six floors, with play delivered on rooftops and terraces.
of open and covered play per student — achieved vertically where suburban norms demand ten times the land.
sq ft target classroom for 30 students — a deliberate, measurable step above the crowded local norm.
-point Parent-Attraction Design Scorecard: safety, light, play, first impressions — scored, weighted, benchmarked.
To make is to design. By using our hands, we understand the richness and possibilities of a material.
Our workshop researches locally available and waste-stream materials — shredded paper, sawdust, terrazzo offcuts, reclaimed wood — and refines them into lights, surfaces, knobs and furniture. Iteration is the method: a simple question becomes many prototypes before it becomes a product.