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Project • By APDL • Apartments

Poorna

Every home begins with a conversation. But the best ones begin with a memory — or in this case, two. When a young doctor couple relocated from a bungalow to an apartment in Ranchi, they approached Ankit Berry of APDL with a brief that was less a list and more a longing. They wanted natural light, a contemporary language, and something that neither of them could quite articulate but both deeply felt: the comfort of where they had come from. They named the home Poorna — complete. The name was aspirational. The design made it true. apdl apdl apdl The challenge was discerning. He had grown up surrounded by tradition; she leaned toward the glamorous and the refined. Two different sensibilities, two different visual me... More

Project • By APDL • Restaurants

Cafe Meraki

Inside the 1,600 sq ft cafe design that feels like a pause above the city To design a cafe in the dense, kinetic heart of a city is to negotiate between pause and bustle, and this cafe design embraces that balance. In Ranchi, Cafe Meraki emerges as such an exercise—an architecture of calibrated calm suspended above urban flux. Perched on the first floor of a commercial building owned by Gupta Rolls, a beloved food joint with over two decades of legacy, this 1600 sqft space marks an evolution from quick-service familiarity to experiential dining. Conceived by APDL, under the principal stewardship of architect Ankit Berry, the project reimagines a commercial volume into a contemporary social landscape. apdl A brief shaped by memo... More