Interview with Architect Sumeet Saxena, New Delhi

What’s your favourite design? It’s very difficult to say, I am in love with interior designing and architecture both, there is nothing specific. The field is vast and we basically like to do good design- that’s the main aim of our practice. Even we prefer doing environment sustainable buildings and this is very important aspect; I would say. You keep on building up structures; you go on eating up the earth, so at least those structures need to be sensitive to the environment and to the culture you are building whrerein. Besides these we also see whether they are sensitive to the climate and are compatible with it. what is the drastic change you have noticed working with all these kind of designs and requirement of clients? See, these days there are a couple of things which demands more attention and requires consideration. Vastu is one of them. We need to take care of these aspects while building residential/commercial complexes. So with Vastu there are green buildings which are water efficient and energy efficient so that in a way it helps the environment at least. We make the best use of eco-friendly materials. For instance, we prefer using UPVC windows instead of wood .So overall there’s a lot of saving. Which project is close to your heart? There is nothing specific here. Every project that we undertake is close to my heart. It takes time in development and building up a complete structure is not easy. Even an interior project varies from 6 months to a year. But still there’s this project- a cottage at Kosambi, which have come out very well and yes, not to mention, there are a lot of things which you want to do but the clients won’t let you. It was challenging, yet exciting. Source: Zingy Homes