Samira Rathod - Samira Rathod Design Atelier
Samira Rathod, founding Director of Samira Rathod Design Atelier (SRDA), is one of India's most exciting contemporary architects. She is known for designs that showcase crowded sculptural volumetric, layered textures, and climate adaptable design.
Samira follows the BLIRS theory, which stands for Beautiful, Local, Indigenous, Recycle, and Small. She makes places that are beautiful and 'stuck' in the context of the local environment, using indigenous materiality, artisan craft, and low impact methods of building.
Impactful Designs
The list of her significant projects is long. It includes the House of Concrete Experiments at Alibag, with sophisticated debris-cast concrete walls and blush-colored guest blocks and the School of Dancing Arches at Bhadran, with terracotta brick vaults and reused steel pieces creating a joyful learning environment.
Additionally, she is also known for the Cool House in Bharuch, where passive design elements like thick lime-plastered walls and jali screens keep it cool; and The Container pavilion for the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, constructed entirely of recycled construction waste, among many others.
Throughout her career, Samira has beautifully united light, shadow, texture, and form, creating structures that are poetic yet functional spaces.
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