Residential Architects, Mumbai

Every home we design follows our five-phase process: Discovery, Concept Design, Design Development, Technical Documentation and Site Supervision. It starts with a free first conversation and a visit to the plot, and you sign off each phase before the next begins. The full sequence, with deliverables and durations, is on our process page.

Discovery ends in a site analysis, a written brief and a project timeline. Concept Design brings sketches, a moodboard and material references, preliminary plans and sections, and an outline cost estimate. Design Development resolves every room and detail in architectural drawings, interior specifications, 3D renders and walkthroughs, coordinated structural and MEP drawings and the regulatory submission package.

Technical Documentation produces construction drawings for all disciplines, material, finish, door, window and joinery schedules, a Bill of Quantities and tender documents. During Site Supervision you receive regular site inspection reports, shop drawing review, a snagging list and the as-built drawings at handover.

As architects we coordinate the structural and MEP engineers alongside the design. If you have not already engaged a structural consultant, we ask you to appoint one during Technical Documentation.

We run the tender and evaluate the shortlisted contractors with you, and you then appoint and contract your chosen contractor directly. During construction we visit the site regularly, review shop drawings, issue clarifications and manage handover. We only take on projects we can see through to completion, so we stay until the house is handed over.

We are likely to suit you if you are building a home from the plot up and want one team to design it and see it through to handover. We do not build the house ourselves: we keep our own list of contractors and are happy to work with one you already have. If you only want drawings and plan to supervise the construction yourself, we are not the right studio, because we take on projects only when we can stay until handover.

For a new home our fee is 8–10% of the construction cost. A 3,000 sq ft new home: on our working assumptions the construction cost is about ₹75.0L to ₹1.4 Cr, our fee is ₹6.0L to ₹13.5L, and the total with the documentation charge and GST is ₹7.8L to ₹17.5L. That is a sense-check, not a quotation. The fees page has the estimator.

This page covers homes designed from the plot up: weekend bungalows in Lonavala and Alibaug, family villas, penthouses and city apartments. For the bungalows alone, see our luxury bungalow designs. If you are fitting out or renovating an existing home, see home interiors in Mumbai, where we list the Mumbai homes whose interiors we designed.

The first conversation is free, needs no preparation and commits you to nothing. We listen to what you want to build and what you are working with, give you an honest assessment of the brief, and tell you what a proper engagement would look like.

For a new home our fee is 8–10% of the construction cost, with a documentation charge and GST added, and it is agreed in a signed Letter of Appointment. Payment is staged in six steps. The first payment is due when you sign the Letter of Appointment, the next three as each design stage is approved or completed, the fifth when construction begins on site, and the last at handover. The fees page has the full schedule and an estimator.