Sthanik Consultants + Studio 4000
Sthanik Consultants | Bangladesh
Founded in 2008, Sthanik is a Dhaka-based studio merging traditional design and construction with contemporary processes. Sthanik’s design approaches are guided by a deep respect for people and places, their memories, and culture. Through designing places at the intersection of nature and culture, the ever-changing phenomena of the monsoon delta and the poetic perpetuity of life within is celebrated. Focused on regional design with a global outlook, the practice, redefines context constraints. Sthanik integrates local craft and building traditions in Bangladesh, creating contemporary yet culturally rooted spaces. Notable projects include vibrant public places in Dhaka, embodying inclusivity, ecology, and digital craft.
Studio 4000 | India
STUDIO 4000, an Ahmedabad-based architecture firm, is helmed by Khushboo and Smit Vyas. Inspired by South Asia's cultural and ecological nuances, the practice delves into diverse scales and programs, from Kandla Port's infrastructural projects to houses and furniture design. Emphasizing placeness and human involvement, they explore architecture as a gathering of views and energies. As a mode of worldmaking, STUDIO 4000 acknowledges a multiplicity of processes by participating in their creative play. Before it is a specific position on programme, design language, or a site, the work is a gathering—an occasion where many views, energies, and realities meet. For enhanced interaction, each encounter seeks openings in the hardened definitions of use and appearance through dialogue and sharing of experience.
