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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.
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