Supriya Krishnan
Architecture · Urban Design · Studio

Drawings & design.

Built work, urban-design proposals, and academic studio output — from a play-café-spa in Lower Parel to circular-city visions for Coimbatore and flood-resilient sections through Edogawa.

I trained as an architect before becoming a planner, and the design instinct still runs through everything I do. I'm interested in how a wall, a section, or a neighbourhood diagram can hold a position — about climate, equity, or the long horizon of a place — that words alone can't quite reach.

The work below moves between scales: a single building in Mumbai, an expandable house typology for India's tier-2 cities, a circular district in Tamil Nadu, water-city sections through Tokyo's Edogawa ward, and design-research studios for the San Francisco Bay.

Trained
B.Arch · M.Sc. Urban Planning
Studios
Umbrella Design
RC Architects
TU Delft Delta Interventions
Software
Rhino · Illustrator · QGIS
AutoCAD · SketchUp
Scales
Building · District · Region
2017·Mumbai·Built

MILLK — Play, Café, Spa

A controlled public space carved into a former mill in Lower Parel, holding a children's play area, a café, and an adult spa under one roof. The exterior — low-cost steel rods and lightweight plates — became a dancing facade; interior curves quietly separated activities of contrasting character without resorting to doors.

Lead Umbrella Design
With RC Architects
Facade study
2020·India·Top 10 Finalist

Framed Habitat — India Homes 2020

India will need 25 million affordable homes by 2030, many in tier-2 and tier-3 cities transitioning from rural to urban. A literal architectural framework: a kit-of-parts that residents can build out and expand as their families grow, recombining for local climate. Shortlisted in the top ten nationally.

Organizer Tata Tiscon
Team RC Architects · Sindhuja Janakiraman · Anubhuti Chandana
Modular framework
2021·Coimbatore, IN·Top 5 Finalist

PudhuCovai — a circular district vision

A 2050 vision for Coimbatore's transition to circularity, set in the Koundampalayam neighbourhood. Five spatial interventions — innovation hub, neighbourhood model, green heart, canal revitalisation, circular high-rise integration — co-produced through a proposed welfare association and the Oṉdṟāga neighbourhood-improvement app.

Organizer Coimbatore City Municipal Corporation × GIZ India
Team Sindhuja Janakiraman · Tahaer Zoyab · Sumanth Rao · Maanasaa Shivashankar · Kavya Kalyan · Anubhuti Chandana
District diagram
2019·Tokyo·Studio

Edogawa — Water City & Parkway sections

Two design alternatives for one of Tokyo's most flood-prone wards, combining hydraulic engineering with spatial planning. Edogawa Water City embraces water as figure; Parkway Edogawa threads green infrastructure through the dense fabric. Each section was tested for urban-design quality and flood-risk reduction — a sustainable bargain between hard and soft measures.

Studio TU Delft × University of Tokyo
Section study
2017·San Francisco Bay·Studio

Delta Interventions — Adaptation by Design

Studio output from the TU Delft Delta Urbanism Research Programme, exhibited in San Francisco. Research themes spanning systems thinking, landscape dynamics, urban morphology, building-with-nature infrastructures, and adaptation pathways — pre-figuring the BCDC's Resilience by Design competition.

Leaders Han Meyer · Taneha Bacchin
With UC Berkeley CED
Delta system diagram

Open to architecture, urban-design, and design-research collaborations at the intersection of climate adaptation and the built environment.

supriya.urban@gmail.com