The Riverfront Sanctuary Residential · Surat
Architecture, landscape & interior designing
View projectEDIPT is a design studio treating every project as an experience under construction — not a finished object.
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Selected works
2019 — 2026
Studio
Space, quietly
considered.
We design houses, galleries and rooms that hold light well. Every commission begins with the site — its weather, its views, its sounds — and ends with a space that feels inevitable.
Founded in 2014, EDIPT works across India and northern Europe from a workshop in Surat, where drawings, models and prototypes share one long table.
Founding partners
Shaunak Jasani
Interiors & making
Leads the interiors: rooms, joinery, and the way daylight lands on a surface. Works from material samples and full-scale mock-ups, and keeps the long argument about a handrail open until the room feels unburdened.
Akshay Jasani
Architecture & the practice
Leads the buildings — houses, galleries and the first conversations that begin them. Argues that a brief is mostly a set of constraints to be listened to, and that the useful site visit happens in the wrong weather.
Process
Five slow steps.
Empathize
We begin by listening in the room as it is: where the morning comes in, which chair nobody sits in, the door that sticks in July. A brief is mostly a set of constraints to be heard before anything is drawn. The useful visit usually happens in the wrong weather.
Define
Then we edit the brief down to the one thing the project must do — not a list of rooms, but a condition: a kitchen that holds a whole family at seven, a gallery that can go quiet between shows. What is left out is written down as deliberately as what stays.
Ideate
Options are drawn in plan and section at the same hour of the day, so they are compared honestly rather than by which rendering flatters them. We work in quantity first — five, ten, twenty — then keep the two that still make sense after a night's sleep.
Prototype
Before a detail is built, it is made: a mock-up at full size, a corner of joinery, a handrail in the actual timber, a wall sample moved around the room until the light has been seen on it. A model is allowed to look unfinished; it is there to answer a question, not to persuade.
Test
Rooms are tested the way they will be lived in: walked through at dusk, sat in, opened and closed a hundred times. What fails goes back to the drawings — the process is a loop, not a line. A room is finished when it has stopped asking to be changed.
Journal
Notes from the studio.
Project notes · 2026
The seat is part of the architecture
In a cinema, the seat is not furniture added at the end. It sets the row pitch, the sightline, the width of the aisle and the amount of sound the room absorbs. At Cineverse Cinema in Bardoli, a 9,300 m² multiplex, the brief called for plush recliners and sofa seating across the auditoriums. At Pragati Cinema in Surat, the same question had to be answered inside a 1,200 m² interior.
We kept the material palette quiet: deep tones that disappear when the film begins, seams that can be cleaned and maintained, and a seat that holds its shape without asking the audience to notice it. Comfort is part of the architecture, even when it looks like furniture.
A home that listens to the river
The Riverfront Sanctuary began with the river, but not with a view. In a 146 m², three-bedroom apartment in Surat, the real luxury was the way light moves across the living and dining room through the day. We kept the shared rooms open to that light, then used wood, marble and a restrained palette to hold it rather than compete with it.
The private rooms turn inward. Each bedroom has its own layer of calm — bespoke headboards, wardrobes that disappear into the wall, and ambient lighting that can be lowered without turning the room cold. The river is present in the colours and the long, unhurried sightlines; it does not need to be on every wall.
The room before the mirror
A bridal studio is a sequence before it is a room. At Bridal Studio by Pinal in Surat, the 46 m² plan is arranged around arrival: the first wash of terracotta-pink, the warmth of the lighting, the moment the mirrors come into view. The client should feel the room slow down before the appointment begins.
The details do the work — the white-tiled nail studio with its gold lettering, the arched Hollywood mirrors, the rose-gold seating, the illuminated jewellery case, and a small sacred corner with fresh flowers and pampas grass. Nothing is only decorative. Each element gives the visit a place to pause, look and be looked after. The room before the mirror is as important as the mirror itself.
“A room is never truly finished; it just reaches a state of serene resolution when it is unburdened by noise.”
“We don’t fill rooms, we edit environments until the only thing remaining is clarity.”
Contact
Let's build something
quiet together.
info@edipt.studio
Plot-B/6 Second Floor, Sharda Vihar Society-2,
near Rustambag Mandir, Dharam Nagar Chowk,
A.K. Road, Surat, Gujarat,
India - 395008
Shaunak Jasani
+91 8200 3562 40Akshay Jasani
+91 8140 3567 84