Mohit Kansal-Studio Strato

10/04/2026

07/01/2026

The staircase wears many faces,
each step a mask, each landing a door.
Upward, the light bends into new skies,
downward, shadows carve another world.

24/12/2025

The staircase as the spine
The staircase is the project’s most ambitious experiment in form, light and movement.
• Role: Structural and experiential anchor connecting all floors.
• Form making: Shifting and dynamic landings at each floor, and interleaving flights that create moments where circulation paths cross and converse.
• Light strategy: Large windows on the corner stair block flood the void with daylight, animating treads and walls and producing a constantly changing choreography of light and shadow.
• Finish and detailing: Intensive collaboration between architect, interior designer and contractor produced a finish that reads almost illusionistic — a blend of precision joins, calibrated textures and carefully resolved transitions. My dearest friend, the Interior Designer for the project. Ms. Iram Sultan shaped the final expression, ensuring the stair reads as both sculpture and everyday infrastructure.

Architecture: Studio Strato- Mohit Kansal, Shubhi Jha Kansal, Ankush Gupta, Suyash Gangwar
Interior Designer: - Iram Sultan, Tripti Parmar, Arushi, Fiza Bedi
Contractors: AKDA-
Photography: Ekansh Goel

23/12/2025

The brief and site constraints led to a single organizing move: make the staircase the heart of the house. Instead of squeezing circulation into a leftover zone, the staircase was liberated as an architectural spectacle. Its shifting landings and dramatic geometry allowed dense floor plans to breathe, created cross visual connections, and became the primary conduit for natural light to wash interior spaces.
The staircase as the spine
The staircase is the project’s most ambitious experiment in form, light and movement.
• Role: Structural and experiential anchor connecting all floors.
• Form making: Shifting and dynamic landings at each floor, and interleaving flights that create moments where circulation paths cross and converse.
• Light strategy: Large windows on the corner stair block flood the void with daylight, animating treads and walls and producing a constantly changing choreography of light and shadow.
• Finish and detailing: Intensive collaboration between architect, interior designer and contractor produced a finish that reads almost illusionistic — a blend of precision joins, calibrated textures and carefully resolved transitions. My dearest friend, the Interior Designer for the project. Ms. Iram Sultan shaped the final expression, ensuring the stair reads as both sculpture and everyday infrastructure.

Architecture: Studio Strato- Mohit Kansal , Shubhi Jha Kansal, Ankush Gupta, Suyash Gangwar
Interior Designer: - Iram Sultan, Tripti Parmar, Arushi, Fiza Bedi
Contractors: AKDA-
Photography: Ekansh Goel

22/12/2025

Light, texture and detail
The house is a study in incremental discovery. Before one crosses the threshold, details speak: the brick’s surface, the ceramic insertions, the softened corners and the manner in which shadows gather around cutouts and balconies. Inside, level changes, voids and planter buffers continue that conversation — light becomes a material as important as brick or tile. Material transitions are resolved with the same care given to spatial adjacencies; terminations and junctions are rehearsed until they read as effortless.
Collaboration and craft
This home was realized through a collective effort: client, architect, interior designer, contractor and material suppliers all shaping the outcome. The project demonstrates that a building acquires soul when craftsmanship, material honesty and client personality are allowed to coexist. Making contractors and suppliers part of the narrative — not just executors — elevated the detailing and the final finish.

Architecture: Studio Strato- Mohit Kansal, Shubhi Jha Kansal, Ankush Gupta, Suyash Gangwar
Interior Designer: - Iram Sultan, Tripti Parmar, Arushi, Fiza Bedi
Contractors: AKDA-
Photography: Ekansh Goel

18/12/2025

Façade and material strategy
• Primary material: Brick — chosen for its tactile warmth, longevity and low maintenance.
• Accent material: Ceramic tiles of varied sizes inserted as deliberate interruptions in the brick field.
• Treatment: Softened edges, carefully resolved terminations between brick and ceramic, and subtle texture variation within the brickwork.
• Compositional moves: In and out volumes, planters as buffers at the corner, and a calibrated play of balcony sizes to cast varying shadows.
The façade debates were long and iterative, but the final composition balances restraint with detail: brick provides the quiet baseline; ceramic and voids create moments of accent and layered shadow.

Architecture: Studio Strato- Mohit Kansal, Shubhi Jha Kansal, Ankush Gupta, Suyash Gangwar
Interior Designer: - Iram Sultan, Tripti Parmar, Fiza Bedi
Contractors: AKDA-
Photography: Ekansh Goel

17/12/2025

A quiet dedication
This house began as a practical response to a tight city plot and grew into a layered, tactile tribute — a home shaped by one owner’s love of detail . Though the owner is no longer with us, the house preserves his spirit: deliberate, textured, and quietly generous.
Sitting at the heart of a dense urban fabric, the site demanded efficiency and clarity. Maximizing coverage was inevitable; doing so while preserving light, ventilation and moments of pause became the design challenge. The corner condition offered an opportunity — to choreograph vistas, orient active façades, and anchor a vertical circulation element that could become the building’s cultural spine.

Architecture: Studio Strato- Mohit Kansal, Shubhi Jha Kansal, Ankush Gupta, Suyash Gangwar
Interior Designer: Iram Sultan, Tripti Parmar,
Contractors: AKDA
Photography: Ekansh Goel