STHAAN
about us
Vision
STHAAN / स्थान: / স্থান / സ്ഥാൻ
Noun, state, condition (at the end of compound = "being in the state of")
Founded in 2021, by Priyanka Mukherjee & Ujjayant Bhattacharyya in the rural landscapes of Assam (India), the now multi-award-winning practice, STHAAN was born out of the curiosity to seek dialogue between form and situations. At our practice, we attempt to understand existing symbiosis and form new synergies between the tangibles and intangibles through thoughtful explorations on contextual research methods, decolonised drawing representations & speculative inquiries and that can evoke an emotional relationship with architecture enriched by simultaneous journeys through imagery, space & form.
People
Ujjayant is an Architect and academic. His interests lie in form study and settlement ecologies. Ujjayant graduated from Piloo Mody College of Architecture, Cuttack(IN) where his thesis on multifaith cemeteries won several awards. He later completed his post-graduate studies at the Chandigarh College of Architecture(IN) where he worked on several Government consultancy projects in Chandigarh and his thesis on Idolmakers of Kumartuli was awarded the best in the university and has been exhibited widely. An alumnus of the International Habitat Design Studio under the guidance of Ar. B.V. Doshi, and the Architecture Y Paisaje programme by RCR Arquitectes, Barcelona, Ujjayant currently leads the Architecture and City studio at AVANI institute of design as an Assistant professor and is the co-founder of a multi-award-winning collaborative practice, STHAAN with Priyanka Mukherjee.
Priyanka is an Architect who has a deep interest in aesthetic study and mapping explorations. Priyanka graduated from Piloo Mody College of Architecture, Cuttack(IN) with first class and a distinction where her research thesis on Linguistic Museums was commended widely and has also been exhibited along with winning national awards. She went on to work extensively in Delhi as a part of ASG Associates in luxury residential and urban commercial projects and later in Hyderabad as Senior Architect of the prestigious CnT Architects under the guidance of Ar. Prem Chandavarkar in several projects that include, townships, urban institutions, residential towers, etc. She is also the co-founder and principal of a multi-award-winning collaborative practice, STHAAN where she deals with community projects through meaningful spatial conversations.