About the Studio

Rooted in India.
Shaped by balance.

Chakra Design Studio was founded in 2021 in Jaipur — a city whose architecture has always understood the relationship between geometry, climate and the human spirit.

Vidya Vasu Sharma — Founder, Chakra Design Studio
Founder & Principal Architect

Vidya Vasu Sharma

Apeejay School of Architecture & Planning, Noida

Introduction

Architecture is not the art of building — it is the art of inhabiting.

My work begins with listening. To the site, to the climate, to the people who will live and move through a space. I trained at the Apeejay School of Architecture and Planning in Noida, and in the years since, I have come to understand that the most enduring buildings are those that know exactly where they stand.

I founded Chakra Design Studio in 2021 with a simple belief: that architecture in India must be simultaneously contemporary and culturally grounded. Not nostalgic, not imitative — but genuinely of its place.

The studio takes its name from the chakra — the wheel of life — because good design, like the wheel, is complete only when all its parts are in balance.

Focus

Context-Driven Architecture

Approach

Human-Centric Urbanism

Founded

2021, Jaipur

Education

Apeejay School of Architecture

What We Believe

Four convictions that guide every project — from the first site visit to the final handover.

01
Place precedes programme. Every project begins with the land, not the brief.
02
Climate is the first design parameter, not an afterthought to be resolved by mechanical systems.
03
Material honesty is non-negotiable. Stone, wood, clay — used where they belong, never in imitation.
04
The building is not finished until it is inhabited. Architecture is tested by life, not by photographs.
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