Bengaluru has the kindest climate of any Indian metro, which frees the design to be about how people actually live and work rather than about defending against the weather.
Apartments and villa developments, independent homes, and a steady stream of workspaces — the city’s employers care about interiors in a way that is still unusual elsewhere in India.
Because the temperature is forgiving, the openings can be generous and the indoor-outdoor line can blur — balconies that are genuinely used, planting that survives, cross-ventilation instead of constant cooling. Rain is persistent rather than violent, so drainage detailing and timber protection at thresholds deserve attention.
Workspace projects here run to tighter programmes and heavier services coordination than homes. We plan MEP and acoustics early rather than treating them as something to hide afterwards.
Drawing and coordination at NYKS is moving onto BIM. The project is modelled in three dimensions and resolved before it is built — joinery against services, structure against finishes — with quantities taken from the model rather than estimated. On a turnkey job in Bengaluru that is what keeps the site free of expensive surprises.
NYKS is a turnkey studio: the same people who draw the room are accountable for the room that gets built — design, artisan commissioning, procurement, site execution and handover. We do not take styling-only engagements. More about the studio and how it works is on the about page.
Where a project needs them, we bring in specialists by niche — a landscape designer when the garden is part of the architecture, a lighting designer when the room depends on how it is lit, MEP consultants so services are engineered rather than accommodated, and IT and AV consultants where the space has to be genuinely intelligent. Their work is coordinated in BIM against ours, so everything agrees on the drawing before it has to agree on site.
Yes. The studio models and coordinates a project in three dimensions before it is built, so services, joinery and finishes agree, quantities come off the model, and changes propagate rather than being missed.
Yes. Workspaces are a significant part of what the studio does, approached with the same principles as a well-composed home — balance, honesty in materials, and ease with natural light.
Generous openings, real cross-ventilation, usable outdoor thresholds and planting that thrives. The mild weather lets the design be about living rather than about defence.
Yes, including within developer constraints on structure and facade where those apply.
Tighter programme, heavier services and acoustic coordination, and earlier decisions on MEP — planned in from the start rather than concealed later.