An architectural practice that engages with the built environment as a continuous system.
Praaktya Studio began with a simple but persistent question — how do we build in a way that truly belongs to its time, place, and people?
Praaktya Studio is an architectural practice that engages with the built environment as a continuous system, where architecture, interiors, material, and climate are understood as interconnected layers rather than isolated parts.
Each project is approached without a predetermined style. Instead, it begins with listening, understanding the site, the people who will inhabit it, and the life it is expected to hold. What follows is a process of careful decisions, often guided more by restraint than addition.
The result is not meant to impress at first glance, but to feel right over time.
The studio is led by Ar. Deepak Khandelwal, whose work is driven by an ongoing inquiry into building responsibly and meaningfully within today’s context.
Sustainability, theory and practice
Graduating with distinction, his early academic exploration of sustainability revealed a clear gap between theory and practice. This prompted a shift away from conventional approaches, towards a more grounded engagement with material, craft, and construction.
With Revathi Kamath and Vasant Kamath
Working closely with them, he developed a hands-on understanding of mud construction, low-concrete building systems, and climate-responsive architecture. This experience shaped a design approach rooted in material honesty and environmental sensitivity.
CEPT University
His postgraduate studies expanded this perspective, shifting focus from individual buildings to the larger built environment, and the role of design in shaping everyday life and urban conditions.
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Years of Khandelwal and AssociatesThis journey is further anchored in a legacy of practice.
Building upon the foundations of Khandelwal and Associates, a 30-year-old firm led by his father, Dilip Kumar Khandelwal, the studio carries forward an inherited understanding of construction, relationships, and on-ground realities.
Praaktya Studio emerges as a contemporary extension of this lineage, bridging experience with a renewed approach towards design, material, and the built environment.
Khandelwal and AssociatesPraaktya Studio
Today, the studio works across residential, commercial, and hospitality projects, while continuing to investigate alternative construction methods, including earth-based architecture and low-impact systems.
We study how people move, how light changes through the day, and how materials age with use.
Good spaces don’t demand attention, they quietly support life within them.
To create spaces that are contextually rooted, spatially intuitive, and enduring in their relevance.
