SEVA WORKS is an Architectural Practice / Design Clinic founded to serve underprivileged and marginalised communities in the Global South through socially-driven, climate and disaster-resilient infrastructure projects.
SEVA WORKS is an Architectural Practice / Design Clinic founded to serve underprivileged and marginalised communities in the Global South through socially-driven, climate and disaster-resilient infrastructure projects.
SEVA WORKS is an Architectural Practice / Design Clinic founded to serve underprivileged and marginalised communities in the Global South through socially-driven, climate and disaster-resilient infrastructure projects.
SEVA WORKS is an Architectural Practice / Design Clinic founded to serve underprivileged and marginalised communities in the Global South through socially-driven, climate and disaster-resilient infrastructure projects.
SEVA WORKS is an Architectural Practice / Design Clinic founded to serve underprivileged and marginalised communities in the Global South through socially-driven, climate and disaster-resilient infrastructure projects.
SEVA WORKS is an Architectural Practice / Design Clinic founded to serve underprivileged and marginalised communities in the Global South through socially-driven, climate and disaster-resilient infrastructure projects.
HARSHAL
GULABCHANDRE
Founder / Director
Founder / Director
Seva Works is a design-research practice founded by Harshal Gulabchandre in 2024 as a response to an architectural profession that too often overlooks those most affected by climate, displacement, and inequality. Rooted in the belief that architecture must serve beyond its disciplinary and commerical boundaries, Seva Works explores how earth-based construction, commensality, and community-led building processes can become tools for social and environmental transformation. Working at the intersection of research, prototyping, and speculative design, the practice develops methods that democratise construction knowledge, foreground artisanal expertise, and enable communities to shape their own built environments.
WHAT WE DO
Strategic Definition & Briefing / Community engagement, user requirement mapping, pre-application documentation.
Site & Context Documentation / Drawing and photography-led studies, measured surveys, environmental and material recording.
Feasibility & Project Brief Development / Site and massing options, programme outlines, pre-app submission material.
Concept & Spatial Design / Outline proposals, spatial strategies, early models and visualisations.
Spatial Coordination / Coordinated drawings, planning submission packages, material specifications, technical studies.
Knowledge Exchange & Research / Workshops, manuals, participatory design methods, and capacity-building programmes.
Seva Works is a design-research practice founded by Harshal Gulabchandre in 2024 as a response to an architectural profession that too often overlooks those most affected by climate, displacement, and inequality. Rooted in the belief that architecture must serve beyond its disciplinary and commerical boundaries, Seva Works explores how earth-based construction, commensality, and community-led building processes can become tools for social and environmental transformation. Working at the intersection of research, prototyping, and speculative design, the practice develops methods that democratise construction knowledge, foreground artisanal expertise, and enable communities to shape their own built environments.
Seva Works is a design-research practice founded by Harshal Gulabchandre in 2024 as a response to an architectural profession that too often overlooks those most affected by climate, displacement, and inequality. Rooted in the belief that architecture must serve beyond its disciplinary and commerical boundaries, Seva Works explores how earth-based construction, commensality, and community-led building processes can become tools for social and environmental transformation. Working at the intersection of research, prototyping, and speculative design, the practice develops methods that democratise construction knowledge, foreground artisanal expertise, and enable communities to shape their own built environments.
Seva Works is a design-research practice founded by Harshal Gulabchandre in 2024 as a response to an architectural profession that too often overlooks those most affected by climate, displacement, and inequality. Rooted in the belief that architecture must serve beyond its disciplinary and commerical boundaries, Seva Works explores how earth-based construction, commensality, and community-led building processes can become tools for social and environmental transformation. Working at the intersection of research, prototyping, and speculative design, the practice develops methods that democratise construction knowledge, foreground artisanal expertise, and enable communities to shape their own built environments.
Seva Works is a design-research practice founded by Harshal Gulabchandre in 2024 as a response to an architectural profession that too often overlooks those most affected by climate, displacement, and inequality. Rooted in the belief that architecture must serve beyond its disciplinary and commerical boundaries, Seva Works explores how earth-based construction, commensality, and community-led building processes can become tools for social and environmental transformation. Working at the intersection of research, prototyping, and speculative design, the practice develops methods that democratise construction knowledge, foreground artisanal expertise, and enable communities to shape their own built environments.
WHAT WE DO
Strategic Definition & Briefing / Community engagement, user requirement mapping, pre-application documentation.
Site & Context Documentation / Drawing and photography-led studies, measured surveys, environmental and material recording.
Feasibility & Project Brief Development / Site and massing options, programme outlines, pre-app submission material.
Concept & Spatial Design / Outline proposals, spatial strategies, early models and visualisations.
Spatial Coordination / Coordinated drawings, planning submission packages, material specifications, technical studies.
Knowledge Exchange & Research / Workshops, manuals, participatory design methods, and capacity-building programmes.
WHAT WE DO
Strategic Definition & Briefing / Community engagement, user requirement mapping, pre-application documentation.
Site & Context Documentation / Drawing and photography-led studies, measured surveys, environmental and material recording.
Feasibility & Project Brief Development / Site and massing options, programme outlines, pre-app submission material.
Concept & Spatial Design / Outline proposals, spatial strategies, early models and visualisations.
Spatial Coordination / Coordinated drawings, planning submission packages, material specifications, technical studies.
Knowledge Exchange & Research / Workshops, manuals, participatory design methods, and capacity-building programmes.
WHAT WE DO
Strategic Definition & Briefing / Community engagement, user requirement mapping, pre-application documentation.
Site & Context Documentation / Drawing and photography-led studies, measured surveys, environmental and material recording.
Feasibility & Project Brief Development / Site and massing options, programme outlines, pre-app submission material.
Concept & Spatial Design / Outline proposals, spatial strategies, early models and visualisations.
Spatial Coordination / Coordinated drawings, planning submission packages, material specifications, technical studies.
Knowledge Exchange & Research / Workshops, manuals, participatory design methods, and capacity-building programmes.
WHAT WE DO
Strategic Definition & Briefing / Community engagement, user requirement mapping, pre-application documentation.
Site & Context Documentation / Drawing and photography-led studies, measured surveys, environmental and material recording.
Feasibility & Project Brief Development / Site and massing options, programme outlines, pre-app submission material.
Concept & Spatial Design / Outline proposals, spatial strategies, early models and visualisations.
Spatial Coordination / Coordinated drawings, planning submission packages, material specifications, technical studies.
Knowledge Exchange & Research / Workshops, manuals, participatory design methods, and capacity-building programmes.
Seva Works is a design-research practice founded by Harshal Gulabchandre in 2024 as a response to an architectural profession that too often overlooks those most affected by climate, displacement, and inequality. Rooted in the belief that architecture must serve beyond its disciplinary and commerical boundaries, Seva Works explores how earth-based construction, commensality, and community-led building processes can become tools for social and environmental transformation. Working at the intersection of research, prototyping, and speculative design, the practice develops methods that democratise construction knowledge, foreground artisanal expertise, and enable communities to shape their own built environments.
WHAT WE DO
Strategic Definition & Briefing / Community engagement, user requirement mapping, pre-application documentation.
Site & Context Documentation / Drawing and photography-led studies, measured surveys, environmental and material recording.
Feasibility & Project Brief Development / Site and massing options, programme outlines, pre-app submission material.
Concept & Spatial Design / Outline proposals, spatial strategies, early models and visualisations.
Spatial Coordination / Coordinated drawings, planning submission packages, material specifications, technical studies.
Knowledge Exchange & Research / Workshops, manuals, participatory design methods, and capacity-building programmes.
