Architects in Mumbai practicing sustainable, eco-friendly design solutions

About us

Blurring boundaries, architects in Mumbai, India is contextual architecture and interior design firm practicing sustainable, eco-friendly biophilic designs that blends seamlessly with nature. Spearheaded by founders Shriya Parasrampuria and Prashant Dupare, we focus on creating appropriate, ecological, and contemporary design solutions using vernacular materials and technologies.

Our practice is artisanal, innovative, experimental and collaborative with a staunch belief in ‘glocal’ and sustainable practices. It focuses on small details along with the larger perspective and works on all aspects in detail.

We believe that design can transform us and must be used sensibly and sustainability is beneficial in the larger scheme of things. We try to use locally available materials but experimenting and reinterpreting them, leading to unique contemporary designs.

 

Belief & philosophy

We focus on ecological practices and sustainable thinking in design, considering the potential health benefits and ecological impact of greener design solutions. We encourage embracing better environmental practices, believing it’s crucial not to isolate individuals from their surroundings but to highlight their connection to the natural environment through biophilic architecture designs.

Our experimental approach to projects ensures that user needs are met innovatively. We believe design can be fun and playful, rather than always serious. As architects in Mumbai, India, we believe that  collaboration with like-minded individuals and the sharing of knowledge opens up new avenues of discovery and design.

Our approach embraces the contrasts in human nature, behaviors, and social practices, translating these contrasts into design and physical spaces, hence the name Blurring Boundaries.

Principal Architects

Prashant Dupare and Shriya Parasrampuria are the founders and principal architects of Blurring Boundaries, a contextualist design practice in Mumbai, engaged in creating sustainable and appropriate biophilic design solutions. As renowned architects in Mumbai, they graduated in 2007 from Sir JJ College of Architecture, Mumbai, and have had an architectural practice for more than 15 years. They have worked on a plethora of residential projects, hospitality projects, educational buildings, and institutional buildings with ecological materials and techniques.

Challenging the ‘normal’ is a constant effort and being open to new ideas and concepts of learning is essential to growth for us.

 

Shriya Parasrampuria

Shriya has had a chance to explore different materials along with different technologies in architecture and interior in the span of her career. She has found a balance in working from the scale of designing the minute intricacies of detailing to the larger planning of site and buildings. She connects with the user in depth and imbibes their values into the design from the beginning. 

Prashant Dupare

Prashant has a strong belief in adhering to natural systems and following nature’s diktat as a lifestyle. He is a strong advocate of passive design technologies and believes that if you focus on resolution of design based on these technologies in the initial stages, the structure starts on the path of sustainability as it is.

Architects in Mumbai

Eco friendly and sustainable practice

Sustainable architects in Mumbai

We believe that sustainable design creates buildings that are not only environmentally responsible but also economically viable and beneficial to human health and well-being.  As ecologically conscious architects in Mumbai, we integrate sustainability into every aspect of our projects.

How we practice sustainable architecture?  

Passive design technologies

We focus on designing the building as per native climatic conditions like sun, wind, rain. It helps in creating comfortable environment naturally. 

  1. Orienting building correctly 
  2. Inducing natural light 
  3. Designing for cross ventilation
  4. Thermal massing to minimise heat gain
  5. Cool roofs and green roofs
  6. Creating micro climate

Biophilic architecture design

We aim to bring building occupants closer to nature by integrating natural elements and processes into the built environment. This approach enhances physical and psychological well-being, boosts productivity, and fosters more sustainable and harmonious living and working spaces.

Appropriate local materials

We work with appropriate, locally available materials. We have explored variety of building  materials like bricks, stone, mud, wood, bamboo, lime, terracotta, recycled materials like glass etc.

local materials - eco friendly and sustainable

Eco friendly & cost effective technologies

We incorporating eco friendly and cost effective technologies like rat trap bond, filler slab, random rubble stone masonry, brick arches, lime wash & plasters, rammed earth which create naturally comfortable built environment. 

Active design technologies

These include renewable energy systems like solar panels, rainwater harvesting, bio-digesters, building automation, energy efficient cooling and heating systems.

Eco friendly architects in Mumbai

Publications

At Blurring Boundaries, our dedication to sustainable architecture has been recognized and celebrated through numerous awards and publications. As leading architects in Mumbai, we strive to push the boundaries of innovative and eco-friendly design.

NDTV luxe interiors – Featured on NDTV luxe interiors
Brick architecture – Brick house published on Brick architecture
Re-thinking the future – Asmalay published on RTF
The architects diary – TAD featured our work
Think matter – Think matter interview with founders
The future of design – TFOD publishes works of founders
Re-thinking the future – Ramisera wilds published on RTF
Stir world – Asmalay published on Stir world
Parametric architecture – Asmalay published on PA
Architecture live – Maativan featured on Architecture live 
Antarya – Antarya published about our practice
Re-thinking the future – Interiors in Lokhandwala, Andheri
Architecture live – Asmalay published on Architecture live 
World architecture – Maativan published on World architecture 
Volume zero – Maativan published on volume zero
Designboom – Asmalay published on designboom
Archdaily – Maativan published on archdaily