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Neotia Haveli, Ramgarh AUR is restoring an almost 200 year old Haveli in Ramgarh, Shekhawati. The project explores mater...
05/22/2026

Neotia Haveli, Ramgarh
AUR is restoring an almost 200 year old Haveli in Ramgarh, Shekhawati. The project explores materiality and memory of migration for the Marwari business community who migrated from Ramgarh to newly developed colonial centre of Calcutta to set up businesses. Shekhawati is known for its havelis and frescoes on the facade. The Ramgarh Haveli restores surfaces with limeplaster and new additions are in limestone.

Hi5 Foundation Sports Academy, ChikhalgaonCurrently under construction in rural Maharashtra close to Mumbai.Project Team...
04/17/2026

Hi5 Foundation Sports Academy, Chikhalgaon
Currently under construction in rural Maharashtra close to Mumbai.
Project Team
AUR - Aurgho Jyoti .jyoti , Subhradip Roy , Vinay Porandla , Akash Ganguly , Nandini Mahto , Farukh Khan ._369 , Haresh G , Adarsh Remesh , Rijul Agarwal .agarwal , Samiya Zainab , Kathika Dutta , Huzefa Jamali, Sneha Mitra , Sanika Khune , Archisman Mali , Tejaswini Wande , Hetal Sengar .hey_tal , Udita Sarkar ._ , Chahat Agarwal ._.ag

Client Management Team:
Hi5 Youth Foundation - Radhakrishnan Sundar, Usha Sundar, Anshul Jain, Kevin Francis, Saneej Patil, Farheen Thange

Collaborators
Structural Engineer: Shilp Engineers - Vishwas Date, Gaurav Sawant
Mechanical Engineer: AMEC - Arun Mahapatra
Electrical Engineer: ECS - Umed Khan
Plumbing Engineer: DSR - Dinesh Singh Rawat
Contractor: GDCC - Santosh Sankpal, Sachin Mhatre, Yash Sankpal
Project Management: Jaydeep Palsule, Sujay Bhoir

Stonecrete mockups by masons with local basalt stones.For the girls and boys hostel blocks for our Hi5 Sports Academy pr...
03/28/2026

Stonecrete mockups by masons with local basalt stones.
For the girls and boys hostel blocks for our Hi5 Sports Academy project in rural Maharashtra outside of Mumbai

Port Heritage Museum, KolkataWeathered steel mockup for the exterior wall.Recreating the weathering process: hydrogen pe...
03/07/2026

Port Heritage Museum, Kolkata
Weathered steel mockup for the exterior wall.

Recreating the weathering process: hydrogen peroxide coating of a steel panel.

Port Heritage Museum at Indenture Memorial Complex - KolkataA museum that archives the built history of the oldest colon...
03/01/2026

Port Heritage Museum at Indenture Memorial Complex - Kolkata
A museum that archives the built history of the oldest colonial Port in India and the story of migration of indentured labourers across plantation colonies. The weathered steel facade is an indexed grid of a labourer’s sleeping module inside the ship. It addresses both the material memory of the site and the human memory of labour migration. It translates scale - making infrastructure and the intimacy of displacement visible together.

AUR (Architecture) along with Dronah (Exhibition Design) has designed the Port Heritage Museum with the Kolkata Port Trust. The museum is currently under construction on top of a 19th century dry dock along the Hooghly waterfront in Kolkata.

The exterior facade distills the spatial logic of the indentured labourers’ sleeping berths within the ship’s hull into an architectural register. During the voyage, bodies were packed into compressed compartments—standardized and fixed. The façade translates this condition of enforced proximity into an indexed grid, transforming the ergonomics of confinement into an architectural datum.

Constructed in weathered steel, the exterior resonates with the patina of existing and adjacent industrial port structures, implanting the building within the material memory of the site. A rigorous orthogonal armature—horizontal and vertical members in weathered steel—organizes the facade, with inset steel back panels completing the assembly. On the subsidiary volumes, this tectonic vernacular is recalibrated at a finer grain, producing a denser texture while maintaining formal continuity across the ensemble.

Project Team
Architecture: AUR - Aurgho Jyoti, Subhradip Roy, Akash Ganguly, Vinay Porandla, Bishshayon Sen, Haresh G, Huzefa Jamali, Sneha Mitra, Sanika Khune, Tejaswini Wande, Hetal Sengar
Museum Exhibition Design: DRONAH - Shikha Jain, Sarita Jain, Sohini Pyne, Protyoy Sen
Masterplan: Salient - Vivek Singh Rathore, Sandip Ghosh
Structural Engineer: SPA Consultants - Sanjiv Parekh, Suman Polley
Mechanical Engineer: AMEC - Arun Mahapatra
Electrical Engineer: ECS - Umed Khan
Plumbing Engineer: DSR - Dinesh Singh Rawat
Contractor: Adhunik

AUR PROMOTIONS | April 2025AUR - Architecture Urbanism Research is proud to announce and acknowledge the meaningful cont...
07/23/2025

AUR PROMOTIONS | April 2025

AUR - Architecture Urbanism Research is proud to announce and acknowledge the meaningful contributions of two of our valued team members in New Delhi. Akash Ganguly and Vinay Porandla has been promoted to Project Architect from Architect since April 2025.

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Akash Ganguly is a Project Architect at AUR New Delhi. Akash has led the design process with the Creative Director for several meaningful cultural, institutional, and hospitality projects which include museums, cultural centers, sports academy, boutique hotels and resorts. His key projects include Port Heritage Museum with Kolkata Port Trust, Ramgarh Haveli Restoration and Heritage Hotel in Shekhawati, Wellness Centre and Hotel in Santiniketan, Pavilion at Asia Horticulture Society and Indian Diaspora Heritage Centre in Kolkata. He has previously worked as an architect in Kolkata with QX Design on tea tourism in North Bengal and social projects in Sundarbans and in Hanoi with Takashi Niwa Architects on projects in Vietnam. He holds a B.Arch with distinction from Amity University, Kolkata where this thesis was nominated for COA National Awards for "Excellence in Architectural Thesis". His awards include the World Architecture Festival Competition ‘Isolation Transformed’ 2020. His journey in architecture bridges tradition and technology exploring grounded solutions based on theory. Growing up around the world’s largest temporary art festival, Durga Puja, watching as the city builds, adapts and transforms for millions of visitors, he realized the impact of culture and history on architecture and human behaviour.

Vinay Porandla is a Project Architect and Urban Designer at AUR New Delhi. Vinay is leading the design and coordination of AUR’s largest institutional projects including Hi5 Sports Academy for marginalized kids outside of Mumbai and Techno India Manchester City World School in Kolkata. His methodical and precise approach to architecture is evident in the process and system-based framework followed in each project. Vinay has been educated as an architect in the USA and the UK. He holds a B.Arch from Iowa State University, USA and an M.Arch in Urban Design with distinction from the Bartlett School of Architecture at University College London. His Thesis at the UCL “Decomposing Temporalities” inquired into the underside of cities while exposing waste hidden in the periphery. Previously he worked in Digital Design and Architecture in the UK and India - Above in Colchester, UK, Designer Plans in Essex, UK, Edifice Consultants in Bangalore. He received the AIA Iowa Emerging Professionals Award in 2020, has been a competition finalist at NOMAS (National Organization for Minority Architecture Students), USA in 2019 and has been on the Dean’s List at Iowa State University for academic excellence.

AUR - Architecture Urbanism Research won an AIA Long Island Excellence in Architecture Archi Award in 2024 for our Buddh...
07/17/2025

AUR - Architecture Urbanism Research won an AIA Long Island Excellence in Architecture Archi Award in 2024 for our Buddhist Pilgrim Cafe project within the historic site of Buddha's birth in Lumbini. The 60th Annual Award ceremony was held at the Garden City Hotel, Garden City, New York.

Although a humble low-budget project, its importance for the local population as an initiative completely run by local women is significant. The project will not be possible without the trust and vision of Stefania Abakerli from World Bank, the management skills of Sanjay Saxena from TSCPL for facilitating everything, Sarayu - TSCPL local site architect, and the contractors. Internally, Subhradip Roy for leading the effort and managing the site remotely during covid.

It was an opportunity for us to restore and work with a Kenzo Tange designed structure. The project, at the site of Buddha’s birth, is an important part of the larger ‘Buddhist Circuit’ project, being steered by the World Bank in collaboration with local governments and tourism bodies. The greater project aims at unlocking Buddhist heritage in South-Asia, the region of its origin, acting as a driver for socio-economic progress.

The American Institute of Architects
Photograph Courtesy: Ajay Maharjan
Design Team: Aurgho Jyoti, Subhradip Roy, Pranay Gupta
Project Management: TSCPL - Sanjay Saxena, Sarayu
World Bank Team: Stefania Abakerli

PS: AUR's local chapter since last year is New York.

HIRING!AUR is hiring again for our New Delhi office! Recent Graduates, Junior Architects, Architects, and Interns (July ...
05/29/2025

HIRING!

AUR is hiring again for our New Delhi office! Recent Graduates, Junior Architects, Architects, and Interns (July 2025 - December 2025). Please bring your humility and curiosity, we have wonderful projects for you to contribute towards. Follow the instructions below.

Thank you all for coming! Thank you for the opportunity - Center for Architecture (AIANY). We are proud to be amongst th...
05/19/2025

Thank you all for coming! Thank you for the opportunity - Center for Architecture (AIANY). We are proud to be amongst the best emerging architecture firms selected by The American Institute of Architects New York.

Our lecture at the Center for Architecture was titled "What Time is This Place?". Through our cultural, social, and environmental projects in India, Nepal, and the US, the lecture highlighted our approach for architectural practice of material and memory with history as an instrument.

The lecture was in conjunction with the New Practices New York exhibition. It was the first panel of the series, featuring AUR and IGG - May 14, 2025, 5:30–8:00pm.

Speakers:
Aurgho Jyoti, AIA, Founder and Creative Director, AUR
Ignacio G. Galán, Founder, IGG

Moderator:
Nahyun Hwang, Partner, NHDM Architects

https://calendar.aiany.org/2025/05/14/new-practices-in-conversation-aur-igg-with-nahyun-hwang/

AUR is exhibiting our projects at the Center for Architecture (AIANY) as part of the New Practices New York Program. We ...
05/08/2025

AUR is exhibiting our projects at the Center for Architecture (AIANY) as part of the New Practices New York Program. We are honoured to be one of the best emerging architecture practices in New York selected by the AIA New York. The exhibit runs from May 8, 2025 to September 2, 2025. Those in New York please register at the link below and be there for the inauguration this evening. Look forward to seeing you there.

https://www.centerforarchitecture.org/exhibitions/new-practices-new-york-2025-voice/?utm_source=outlook&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=aia_events

Aurgho Jyoti will be presenting our work at the Center for Architecture next week followed by a moderated discussion. More on than later.

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