Biome Environmental Solutions is a Bangalore-based design firm focused on ecology, architecture and water. The office’s diverse team includes designers, architects, civil and mechanical engineers and urban planners from various parts of India and abroad. The designs are undertaken by various member of this team in constant collaboration with each other via group discussions & exchanges and periodic meetings.
Design is a highly personal process, and we place great emphasis on client interactions to ensure the final project incorporates the vision of sustainability with the client’s aspirations for aesthetics, functionality, and budget.
The ecologically and socially sensitive nature of our work, along with our commitment to spreading sustainable living practices far and wide, has led to our involvement in many nonprofit projects to benefit the natural environment and disadvantaged populations. We have established the Biome Environmental Trust to facilitate our continued efforts in these activities.
Biome’s service offerings range from architectural and rainwater harvesting design to environmental planning consultancy and comprehensive water strategising. We place great emphasis on developing strong communication channels and particularly face-to-face interaction with each of our clients, which enable us to tune in to the client’s needs and constraints.
Spastics Society of Karnataka, Bengaluru, designed by Biome Environmental Solutions called for a low cost, sustainable and a quick solution.
The brief given to Biome Environmental Solutions was to design a dance and music studio with an intimate platform for performing arts on a small plot in Bangalore, that would also serve as a venue for workshops and small events at times. The challenges of a tight site and requirements led to a design where each space and element played more than one role.
We designed project to be darker than what would lighting be for a space for visually able. Openings in certain parts of the building were so designed that through the movement of air would one feel the direction. This was a pro-bono work for our office.
The office for Biome is built over an older building. The owners had found the use of the upper floor to be redundant for them and were seeking to rent it out. An additional floor was added for this purpose.
Project Facts: Principal Architect: Chitra Vishwanath / Sharath Nayak Design Tem: Anurag Tamhankar / Structural Designer: K.S.Shashidhar Photographers: Vivek M / Ankon Mitra Cost : 4.2
Name of the project: Hamsa and Prasanna House Location: Anekal Main Road, Bangalore Year of completion: 2016 Design Team: Chitra Vishwanath, Sree Sandeep Dangeti Consultants:
Name of the project: Hamsadhwani, House for the Bhat’s Location: Kanakapura Road, Bangalore, India Year of completion: 2016 Design Team: Sharath Nayak, Karishma Susan Kurian,
Ann and Rebecca are two sisters who had a 106’ x 70’ plot in Indiranagar. They wanted to build a house each for themselves and a third one for rent. Additionally, they wanted two quarters for the household helps.
The brief was to follow the intent of Waldorf system of Education but be within the bye laws laid by the Tamil Nadu Board of education. Waldorf system stresses hugely on child centric education wherein more impetus is given on mental, spiritual, physical and psychological than only the academics.
In the Holy city of Puttaparthi and its environs, there are many elderly people who do not have a roof to sleep under. Helping Eagles,
CONTEXT The site is located 100 kms north of Mumbai, in a rural area at the foot hills of the Sahyadris, and lies between the
The school sits in a neighborhood with constant construction activity and a godown is in its immediate vicinity. Creating a learning space for a young age group on such a site required that the school be an enclosed and protective space. The site factor played a key role in the design, along with the Reggio-Emilia education approach itself, on which the school is based. – Biome Environmental Solutions
The home is located on the outskirt of Bangalore at the edge of the garden around the park adjoining a lake. Since the plot is a corner one the home is designed so that it can be viewed from both sides. As one walks around the building it reveals its characters, punctured wall with windows of various sizes and hues, telescopic vaults and sloping roofs at jaunty angles. Though located near a lake in the north- it exactly is not a very pleasant view at lower levels since there is also a large stormwater drain flowing at the edge. – Biome Environmental Solutions
New and old finishes are brought together in perfect harmony throughout the home. Many of these were procured by the client from Karaikudi and Jaipur, including Athangudi tiles, doors/windows and the first floor wooden pillar as well as the ceramic tile inserts for the clay tile flooring respectively. – Biome Environmental Solutions
The school sits in a neighbourhood with constant construction activity and a godown is in its immediate vicinity. Creating a learning space for a young
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