Canvassing For Style

Ahmedabad-based PVDRS create a compelling design narrative for a private villa on the city’s outskirts out of strategies that allow easy modulation of spaces, a striking interior treatment and meticulous attention to detail.

- Rupali Sebastian

“It was a leap of faith for the client,” says architect Keyur Vadodaria of a commission bagged within a couple of months after he and his partner, interior designer Megha Patel-Vadodaria, returned to India after working for a decade in the UK. The project in question was the interior design of an 8,000-square-foot villa on the outskirts of Ahmedabad, which came their way on the recommendation of project architects Modo Designs, led by architect Arpan Shah.

Keyur and Megha’s entry was at a stage when the structural plans were yet to be finalized — and this gave them the opportunity, with the endorsement of the client and the architects, to review the spaces from an interiors perspective. “We carried out a detailed audit of all spaces based on the client’s brief and our interior design space planning. Together, we were able to rework some of the room sizes and got some structural changes done as well where it was possible. All civil changes were accommodated at this initial stage of construction to avoid any changes (and delays!) at a later stage,” disclose Megha and Keyur, who run PVDRS, a bespoke interior design and architecture studio out of Ahmedabad.