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Concept of Hooga Room in a House
Hooga is about appreciating and enjoying
the little things in everyday life. It’s more
than a feeling, it’s a way of living. Hooga
rooms are a great way to relax or work, it
just lets you be!
more stringent government policies, one
cannot bring the change that is necessary
to conserve our environment and cultural
heritage. To eradicate long-running issues like
labour complacency, material duplicity and
increasing carbon footprint the governing
bodies need to treat these problems at grass-
root level and come up with stricter bye-laws,
licensing and standardisation systems.
The Purposeful Journey
“When we commenced our journey as architects, all of us had the same answer for where we
see ourselves in three years - working in our own firm. But when TDC was starting out, clients
were apprehensive about putting their trust in a young team, assuming that we lack the desired
experience. Also at times, it was the gender bias we faced, with clients and contractors having
reservations about working with an all-women team.
But with time, the varied set of skills acquired through experience paid off.
The confidence to commit for time and cost helped to acquire projects.
One major stepping stone was to bag the project of large venture capital The Port House
at an early stage, where we got the opportunity to showcase our ability Home is a feeling,
to pull off a capacious project in a strict time frame. TDC is also designing not a place!
a leading chain of dental clinics. Now after two and half years of working, The design draws
TDC has been a part 20+ small and big projects, yet the desire to build a inspiration from the
client’s dream is still as strong as was in the beginning.” navy background
of the client while
following an
amalgamation of
Modern, Minimalist
and Coastal
theme. As a result,
elements like
aquatic life, circular
and elliptical form
(inspired from
windows of a ship),
the ocean blue
color etc. have been
incorporated in the
design. To provide
a warm and homely
feel to the place,
earthly materials
like wood, stone,
and plants etc are
introduced.

