Architecture — Bhutan — Est. 2018
GandharaDesigns
Contemporary architecture, built on the proportion and craft of Bhutanese tradition.
Hongtsho Crematorium Complex
“The structure is designed with a circular form for the cremation building, representing the cyclical nature of life.”
Projects
Place, before form.
A site in Bhutan is never neutral ground — it slopes toward a valley, sits below a ridgeline, follows a stream. Contemporary practice and Bhutanese proportion meet here, in how a building is set into what is already there, rather than placed on top of it.
How we work
Every plan begins with the land — slope, aspect and approach — before a wall is drawn.
Stone, timber and earth are used as themselves, not disguised as something else.
Where Bhutanese tradition informs a building, it does so through ratio and rhythm, not decoration.
A building is judged by how it is used and inhabited, long after the render is forgotten.
Stone
Timber
Earth2018
Thimphu, Bhutan
Gandhara Designs is an architecture studio working between contemporary practice and Bhutanese architectural tradition — proportion, material and place before ornament.
About the studio