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Janki Contractor
Janki Contractor holds a B.Arch from CEPT University, Ahmedabad, and a Master of Architecture (Urban Design) from The Glasgow School of Art, UK. Her expertise spans across concept strategy, technical detailing, coordination, and on-site execution across residential and commercial segments. She sets standards for drawing rigor, material performance, and execution sequencing, and mentors a multidisciplinary team to deliver coherent, buildable solutions. A former visiting faculty member at Navrachna University and CEPT University, she continues to cultivate a practice culture grounded in clarity, craft, and precision. Her varied interests include interior design, mass housing, adaptive reuse, and sustainability.
Atreya Bhattacharyya
Atreya Bhattacharyya is a graduate of Jadavpur University, Kolkata. He further studied Theory and Design to avail Master of Architecture degree from CEPT University, Ahmedabad. Atreya provides strategic design direction to the studio, steering projects across scales and stages—from concept to delivery. A rigorous, research-led approach informs decisions, resulting in solutions that are efficient, contextually appropriate, and enduring. Apart from his professional work, he is academically inclined and has published essays and project notes appearing on professional platforms.
Practice Ideology
CraftsPOD Design Studio is an Architecture, Design and Research practice based in Ahmedabad. The firm deals with diverse scales and types of projects, from addressing complexities on a larger urban scale to that of furniture, dealing with the need of a project. From the inception of our firm, in the past four years, we have indulged ourselves in diverse scales, from architecture and landscape design to installations for office spaces. Through projects, the studio tries to come up with alternate approaches to the formation of space, where the exploration of material expressions and details plays an important role. In some cases, one takes dominance over the other, experimenting with things in detail and trying to come up with new meanings and expressions. The firm attempts to indulge in projects that are deeply rooted in a particular situation, having a rational, efficient reasoning approach and in sync with the demands of contemporary practices.
At CraftsPOD Design Studio we try to push certain boundaries of the conventional way of looking into things with subtlety and understanding of the sensitivity of a project. To us, the situation in which a project stands leads us to the direction of approaches and processes. From the aspirations of the stakeholders to the foreseeable possibilities in a project, we try to find ways in which we can balance things with a predominant intent to innovate and explore in a structured manner. Depending on the projects, research becomes an integral part, which leads us to a more efficient and appropriate solution. Throughout the process we tend to search for cracks from which we can get a possibility to explore things, keenly searching for opportunities to make a move. In totality we try to look at a part from a holistic perspective, questioning the role of practice in today’s society and responding to it in a resourceful manner.
