Plate 01
Homes, from the plot up
New residences designed around sun paths, monsoon winds and how your family actually moves through a day — from first sketch to the day you get the keys.
Scope: Full design + siteTyp. 14–22 months
Drawn for lightbuilt for life.
I'm Nikhil Sharma, an architect running a small studio in Goa. For nine years I've designed homes, workplaces and second lives for old buildings — starting from the plot, the climate and the way you actually live, not from a picture on someone else's feed.
42■Projects built
09yrIn practice
06★Design awards
03▲On site now
Selected works
Sheet A-01 · Index of drawingsTwelve of forty-two. Each project is photographed only after the client has lived or worked in it for a year — buildings should be judged inhabited.
W-42
Courtyard House
Residence · 6,400 ft²Alibaug · Built 2025
W-39Mill House Studios
Adaptive reuse · 18,000 ft²Panjim · Built 2024
W-35Verandah Clinic
Healthcare · 3,100 ft²Mapusa · Built 2023
W-31House Between Trees
Residence · 2,800 ft²Assagao · Built 2023
W-27Saltpan Office
Workplace · 9,600 ft²Ribandar · Built 2022
W-22Two-Courtyard School
Institutional · 24,000 ft²Ponda · Built 2021
Full portfolio with drawings & site photographs shared on request → write to the studio
What the studio does
Sheet A-02 · Scope of servicesPlate 02
Old buildings, new lives
Adaptive reuse and restoration — Portuguese houses, mills, warehouses. Keeping the bones and the memory, replacing everything that leaks, sags or bakes.
Scope: Survey → handoverTyp. 10–18 months
Plate 03
Workplaces that work
Offices, clinics and studios for teams under a hundred — daylight over downlights, cross-ventilation over glass boxes, and acoustics people can think in.
Scope: Design + interiorsTyp. 6–12 months
The studio
Sheet A-03 · General notesA building should know where it stands — its sun, its rain, its street — before it worries about how it photographs.
I trained at CEPT Ahmedabad and spent four years with a conservation practice in Mumbai before moving to Goa in 2017 to build my own studio. We stay deliberately small — myself, three architects and a site engineer — so that I personally draw, detail and site-visit every project we take on. Four commissions a year, never more.
The work has been published in Architectural Digest India and won at the NDTV Design & Architecture Awards — but the review I keep is the client in Assagao who said their electricity bill halved and their marriage improved. Buildings should be judged inhabited.
Nikhil SharmaAr. Nikhil Sharma · B.Arch, CEPTCOA Reg. CA/2017/89xxx
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Portrait — replace with a photograph at the drawing board or on site
2025
NDTV Design Award — Residence of the YearCourtyard House, Alibaug
2024
AD India — published, Mill House StudiosAdaptive reuse feature
2022
IIA Goa Chapter — Young Architect Award
From plot to keys
Sheet A-04 · Sequence of workListen & measure
Site visit, survey, soil and sun study — and a long conversation about how you live, not what you've pinned.
2–3 weeksConcept
Two directions, presented as models and plans you can read. We pick one, together, for reasons we can both say out loud.
4–6 weeksDesign development
Materials, structure, services, budget reality-check. The design is frozen before the first brick — changes on paper are cheap.
8–10 weeksDrawings & permits
Working drawings a contractor can't misread, and the approvals file handled end to end.
6–8 weeksOn site
Fortnightly site visits, a shared photo log, and a snag list we clear before you move in — not after.
Build durationCurriculum vitae
Sheet A-05 · RecordPractice
2017 — Now
Founder & Principal
Studio Nikhil Sharma, Goa
42 built projects across residences, workplaces and adaptive reuse; team of five.
2013 — 2017
Project Architect
Sen & Lobo Conservation Architects, Mumbai
Restoration of three Grade-II heritage structures; learned that old buildings punish arrogance.
2012 — 2013
Junior Architect
RMA Architects, Mumbai
Working drawings and site coordination on institutional projects.
Education
2007 — 2012
Bachelor of Architecture
CEPT University, Ahmedabad
Thesis: passive cooling in coastal housing — gold medal, design chair.
2019
Conservation of Built Heritage (cert.)
INTACH Heritage Academy
Recognition & publication
NDTV Design & Architecture Award Residence of the Year — Courtyard House2025
Architectural Digest India Mill House Studios, feature2024
FOAID Design Excellence — shortlist Two-Courtyard School2022
IIA Goa — Young Architect Award 2022
Domus India Verandah Clinic, published2023
Guest critic, B.Arch juries Goa College of Architecture2021 —
Registrations
Council of Architecture, India CA/2017/89xxx2017
Indian Institute of Architects, Assoc. 2018
Clients, a year in
Sheet A-06 · Post-occupancyWe asked for four bedrooms. He asked why. The answer — grandparents visit twice a year — became a guest wing that closes off entirely. We live in the whole house now, not a quarter of it.
Homeowners, Courtyard HouseAlibaug · moved in 2025
The mill was going to be demolished. Nikhil walked in, put his hand on a column, and said "this is the best material on site." Two years later our studio works inside those columns.
Founder, Mill House StudiosPanjim · occupied 2024
Site notes
Sheet A-07 · Journal05.2026Read →02.2026Read →11.2025Read →
Why your house doesn't need air-conditioning in every room
What a 4-foot roof overhang, a shaded west wall and one honest courtyard actually do to indoor temperature — with numbers from our own projects.
The real cost of a Goa restoration, itemised
Everyone asks. Here is an anonymised budget of a 1920s house restoration — what the laterite cost, what the surprises cost, what we'd do differently.
How to brief an architect (without a Pinterest board)
Twelve questions that tell me more about your future home than a hundred saved images.
Build something
worth keeping.
The studio takes four commissions a year. Tell me about your plot, your building or your idea — I reply personally, usually within two days, and the first conversation costs nothing.
StudioHouse No. 214, Near St. Anthony Chapel
Assagao, Goa 403 507Visits by appointment — Tue & Thu
Assagao, Goa 403 507Visits by appointment — Tue & Thu
Phone+91 98450 12345Mon–Sat · 10:00–18:00
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