IN THE STUDIO OF ARCHITECTURE BRIO

We take you to the workspace of your design favourites, giving you a glimpse of what keeps them ticking period collectibles, paintings and plenty of indoor plants!

- NAMRATA DEWANJEE

In a deliberate repudiation of tabula rasa, Architecture BRIO instead chooses to occupy a half-century-old garment mill in Worli, overlaying their distinct imaginations onto the memories of Mumbai’s industrial past. Led by principal architects and founders Robert Verrijt and Shefali Balwani along with associate partner Rohit Mankar, the contemporary practice retrofitted the 4,000 sq ft slice of time to suit their needs, inhabiting a delightful concoction of the old and new. BRIO moulds the rigid framework of the factory into a visually and physically connected workplace, knocking down all but essential walls and creating an open plan split into two storeys.