Delhi swings from 45°C to near freezing and spends part of the year under serious air pollution. A room that ignores that is a room you fight for a decade.
The work here divides between apartments in Delhi proper, farmhouse builds on the southern edge, Gurugram and Noida high-rises where the developer’s shell is the starting constraint, and workspaces.
Dust is the defining practical problem — it dictates surface choices, joinery tolerances and how much open shelving a house can honestly carry. Thermal swing means glazing, insulation and shading matter more than in most Indian cities. We plan for air quality directly: sealed envelopes where appropriate, filtration integrated rather than bolted on, and planted interiors that genuinely help rather than decorate.
High-rise projects come with society rules, service lift windows and strict working hours, and ignoring them costs weeks. We build those constraints into the programme from the start rather than discovering them at installation.
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 Delhi NCR 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. Delhi NCR projects include apartments and high-rise residences across Gurugram and Noida as well as Delhi itself.
By treating it as a design problem rather than an appliance problem — envelope sealing where appropriate, filtration planned into the services rather than added later, and planting chosen to actually contribute.
Glazing specification, shading and insulation carry most of the load. Getting them right reduces what the cooling and heating have to do all year.
Yes. Delhi NCR is close enough for regular site presence, and we run procurement and supervision the same way we do at home.