Articles by Miwa Negoro

The Dalmia-Gopichand Badminton Academy, or The Shuttle, is a testament to the potential of architecture to create opportunities for sports in the built environment. This, in turn, fosters the spirit of sportsmanship and community, thereby demonstrating how architecture can amplify the cultural and economic significance of sports. This project is imagined to exemplify the role of architecture in shaping a city’s identity and aspirations.

Crafted for a growing family and to host their friends, Halcyon House features a raised double-volume living room with an accompanying feature staircase and circulatory spaces overlooking it. The house remains intimately connected to nature and light, with an airy interior featuring mellow materials.

Mankind Studios is a compact mixed-use building located in a dense urban neighborhood in Bandung, Indonesia. The project occupies a narrow site within a lively hangout district shaped by the city’s strong youth culture and creative economy. Bandung’s high altitude and mountainous surroundings provide a cooler climate than most Indonesian cities, a condition that directly informs the building’s spatial and environmental strategies.

The International Guest House is part of the comprehensive campus development of the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad (IITH). It is among the six core buildings defined in the master plan and was designed through a distinctive framework of international collaboration.

This architectural project represents a sanctuary of tranquility, an escape from everyday chaos, which forms the fundamental intention of the project owner to establish a long-term retreat for family members. A peaceful and undisturbed environment became the essential premise in the search for a site that could respond both to family living and to the potential for a complementary business. This vision ultimately gave rise to the café and future villa nestled within a lychee orchard, conceived as a place for rest, reflection, and quiet enjoyment.

Bagchi Karunashraya, meaning “Abode of Compassion”, is a hospice care facility located in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, dedicated to providing free and quality palliative care to terminally ill cancer patients. The center stands as a compassionate response to end-of-life care—deeply rooted in the philosophy, “Where there is no cure, there is care.” It is a place where architecture, nature, and human dignity converge to create a healing environment.

The project started with the following question from the client to the architect. “The society that surrounds us seems to be very mature; however, many buildings are being broken one after the other while their lifetime is still sufficient. Isn’t that exactly what happened due to this loss of something?”