Bangalore & South India · Architecture & Interior Design
Architecture and interiors for how India lives now.
Aalekh is an architect-led studio in Bangalore. We design homes, interiors and commercial spaces across South India, for families here and for Indian owners living abroad. Ar. Pooja Kothari reviews every project before it is built.
Contemporary Indian homes, Bangalore & South India
Why Aalekh
A designed home, held to one standard.
We keep the studio small on purpose. A home deserves an architect's judgement, not a template stitched from a catalogue.
- AArchitect-led, not a modular factory. Interiors and architecture under one roof, drawn from the plan, not built from a product menu.
- BThe founder is on every project. Ar. Pooja Kothari reviews the design before anything is built, so judgement travels with the drawings.
- CDrawn to the climate. Bedrooms sit off the west face, and every plan gets cross-ventilation. We add a courtyard or light well wherever the plot allows one.
- DBuilt to run from abroad. A video-first process, so NRI owners see the home before it is spent on.
Selected work
Homes and spaces, founder-led.
Our design language
India has always known how to build for its light, its air and its rituals.
Aalekh designs a contemporary Indian home, rooted in climate logic, courtyards, jaali and craft. Not exotica, and not a copy of a magazine. A home that reads as Indian and modern at once, and stays cool because it is planned to.
Ar. Pooja Kothari, Principal Architect · Selected for Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women (NSRCEL, IIM Bangalore)
In their words
Homeowners on working with Aalekh.
What our clients say on Google, in their own words.
Pooja took care of each and every small matter. She is so committed towards her job that she did not give a chance to compromise on any challenge, and communicated with every department, be it civil, electrical, plumbing or carpentry.
We purchased a HOUSE and Aalekh Architecture gave us a HOME. Immaculate and near perfect interiors are making us stay in the home itself. From design to execution, everything was planned well.
Despite knowing several architects, we chose Pooja for our 4BHK duplex in Jayanagar. What is particularly impressive is the very high quality of renders, which show you exactly what you can expect.
Initially I was skeptical, as she stays in Bangalore and our project was in Kurnool. Right from the beginning Aalekh had a vision and built our home of dreams accordingly. Any on-site challenge, Aalekh stands with the client and gets it solved.
Before you brief us
Questions homeowners ask first.
Do you design both interiors and full houses? +
Yes. Aalekh is architect-led. We work across full-home interiors and ground-up residential architecture. Of the 24 projects we have delivered in four years, 20 are interiors and 4 are architecture. Some were run remotely for owners living abroad. We brief every project the same way, with the Principal Architect involved throughout.
Do you take on commercial and office projects? +
Yes. Alongside homes we design offices and commercial interiors, from small studios to full workspaces. It is the same architect-led process, and the same founder review. It is planned around how your team works day to day.
Can NRIs and owners living abroad work with you remotely? +
Yes. Many Bangalore homes are owned by families living in the US, UK, UAE, Singapore and Australia. We run projects over video, with regular photo and video reports. You also get 3D walkthroughs before spend, and a single point of contact. See our pages for NRIs for how that works.
Where in Bangalore do you work? +
We work across the city and its edges. On the east and south east that means Whitefield, Sarjapur Road and HSR Layout. In the south we reach Jayanagar, JP Nagar and Koramangala. In the north we reach Hebbal, Yelahanka, Devanahalli and Sadashivanagar. Our studio is in Basavanagudi, in South Bangalore, and we visit site through the project. Beyond the city we also take on homes across South India. We run those projects remotely, for owners living abroad.
Do you design vastu-compliant homes? +
When you want it, yes. We design vastu-compliant when that matters to you. We design for sun and wind first when it does not. We are honest about where the two agree and where a sensible trade-off is needed. Our design pages explain how we resolve those conflicts without crippling the layout.
How do we start? +
Book a video consultation with the Principal Architect. We talk through your home or project, your site or flat and your timeline. We also talk about how involved you want to be. Then we set out a clear next step. There is no fee talk on that first call. We only talk about whether we are the right studio for your project.
Start here
A real conversation with the Principal Architect.
Not a sales call. Tell us about your home or project, your site or flat, and how involved you want to be. Ar. Pooja Kothari will tell you how she would approach it. She will also set out what a sensible next step looks like.
- One conversation about your project, no fee talk on the first call
- The founder on the call, and on every project we take
- Living abroad? We run the whole project over video