CHITRA

VISHWANATH
 About
• Principal architect & managing director at Biome Environmental
Solutions, Bengaluru
• Nigerian national diploma
• Bachelor of architecture, CEPTAhmedabad
• 1990-2008, Founder Chitra Vishwanath Architects
• Advisor to kilikili www.kilikili.org
• Co-ordinator in:ch – an indo-swiss sustainability education
initiative
• Chitra Vishwanath began her practice in 1990 as an architect
wanting to work on her own and make a change in the
scenario of the Indian housing market. The practice provided
economical solutions with a dedicated sense of integrity in all
financial dealings. She is now co-founder at Biome
Environmental, a Bangalore-based firm focused on ecology,
architecture and water. Created by the 2008 merger of Chitra
K. Vishwanath Architects and Rainwater Club, their service
offerings range from architectural and rainwater harvesting
design to environmental planning consultancy and
comprehensive water strategising.
BIOME environmental solutions
01
Has designed and
implemented hundreds of
real estate developments –
residences, institutions and
resorts – guided by
ecological principles,
integrating sound water,
energy and land-usethinking
into design.
02
Design is a highly personal
process, and provide 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.
03 04
The ecologically and socially Established the Biome
sensitive nature of our work, Environmental Trust to
along with the commitment facilitate the continued
to spreading sustainable effortsin these activities.
living practices far and wide,
has led to our involvement in
many non-profit projects to
benefit the natural
environment and
disadvantaged populations.
 PROJECT-
THEATELIER
BANGALORE
 The Atelier is designed as a temporary structure in response to
site limitations. This entails that it can be dismantled and the
materials and land recovered in entirety. Conforming to the
education system, the spaces are designed in a permeable
sense.
Eight branching columns support a sloping roof which effects
a gentle change in scale. The interior is visually liberating,
being perceived entirely as one volume.
PROJECT-THE Walls of varying heights enclose curvilinear spaces, blurring
ATELIER volumetric definition

BANGALORE The external envelope is a pattern of pervious, opaque and

transparent surfaces, lighting and ventilating the space.
Dotted with skylights, the roof has an insulating bamboo
plywood false ceiling which contrasts pleasantly with the
metallic frame.
Construction techniques such as chappadi stonefoundation,
paver block floor, paper tube partition walls and a bolted
steel structure make it transposable.
 Chitra Viswanathan
Bangalore Residence project
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