No is a medium for social change. No stands as an emphatic denial of stylistic pursuits and a commitment towards understanding and analysing the driving factors of society, its culture and life. This information drives their professional endeavours and they use this platform to project their visions for the future. They are a group of architects, designers and social artists applying an iterative, process-oriented design to address the challenges in architecture. It involves intense research into the characters, characteristics, conditions, programmatic requirements, their interdependencies and relations to define the design challenge. The parameters of social context, economy and sustainability act as drivers in this process. They are a design practice, based out of South India, working on the forefront of Climate Change. They are working on a series of projects , in the tropics, exploring different materials and site conditions, providing experimental solutions for real life problems faced by the local population. No embodies, the void: the emptiness, which expresses the essence of a design by its absence, emptiness exists.

PARTNERS@NO
Harikrishnan Sasidharan
Ingenieur, Architect, Urbanist
Principal Partner@NO
Harikrishnan is an architect and urbanist, who graduated from TU Delft, Netherlands, specializing in computation.

Neenu Elizabeth
Architect, Landscape Designer
Principal Partner@NO
Neenu is an architect and landscape designer, who graduated from School of Architecture and Planning, Anna University, Chennai, specializing in sustainable landscapes.