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YOUR
SPACE.
YOUR LIFE.

Project — 2024
The Morning Light House, Guwahati 2024
Interior detail
Spatial design
12+ Projects
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Your space should not look like an architect's portfolio It should look like your life happened there Lifestyle-Centric Architecture Guwahati, India Ar. Neha Singhi Behaviour-Based Design Your space should not look like an architect's portfolio It should look like your life happened there Lifestyle-Centric Architecture Guwahati, India Ar. Neha Singhi Behaviour-Based Design
01 — About the Practice

WE DON'T
BRING A STYLE.
WE BRING
ATTENTION.

Eco-logical Spaces was founded by Ar. Neha Singhi in Guwahati with one conviction: architecture should never impose its aesthetic on the people living inside it.

Every project begins with questions — not mood boards. How do you move through your home on a Tuesday? Where does your mind go when it needs quiet?

Ar. Neha Singhi
Founder & Principal Architect
Interior
Detail
02 — Design Philosophy

A minimal, ordered environment with one expressive, unexpected gesture. Structured architecture. Expressive personality.

STRUCTURE WITH A SURPRISE.
01

Human Behaviour

Space choreographed around movement patterns and daily rituals unique to each inhabitant — not a universal archetype.

"Your habits are our brief."
02

Emotional Experience

Light, material, and volume shape how a space feels in the body — not just how it appears to the eye.

"Feeling before form."
03

Climate Intelligence

Every building reads wind, light, and soil before a single line is drawn. The land is the first collaborator.

"The site speaks first."
04

Controlled Chaos

Ordered structure with one expressive gesture — the surprise that makes a space unforgettable.

"One expressive moment."
FOUR WAYS
WE SEE
A PROJECT.

Every commission viewed through four lenses — interwoven layers of the same inquiry into how people truly inhabit space.

01
Architecture Psychology

Movement patterns, spatial comfort, light and material perception — mapped before floor plans.

02
Sustainability

Climate-responsive design through passive strategies, ventilation, and material intelligence.

03
Storytelling

Architecture documented through interviews, craft stories, and narratives that outlast the building.

04
Health & Wellbeing

Daylight, acoustics, air, biophilic design — spaces engineered to support physical and mental health.

04 — Selected Works

SELECTED
WORKS
2022–2024

06
Commission a Project →
Residential · 2024
The Morning Light House
Residential · Guwahati
The Morning Light House
East-facing windows as alarm clock.
Ritual Kitchen
Interior
Ritual Kitchen
Breath House
Passive Design
Breath House
Courtyard Memory
Heritage
Courtyard Memory
The Slow Room
Wellbeing
The Slow Room
Canopy Studio
Commercial · 2022
Canopy Studio
PROCESS
05 — How We Work

HOW WE
BEGIN.

We don't start with sketches. We start with conversations — about how you wake up, how you cook, what sounds you need, and what kind of light makes you feel like yourself.

01

Life Listening

Deep discovery around habits, rituals, and sensory preferences before any spatial thinking begins.

02

Site Reading

Climate, orientation, light paths — we read the land before we mark it. The building is already there.

03

Concept Development

Spatial narratives synthesising behaviour, environment, and one expressive gesture.

04

Material Intelligence

Every material chosen for tactility, climate response, and the story it tells over decades.

05

Living Documentation

Post-occupancy research — the building truly begins when people move in. We return. We listen.

THINKING
IN PUBLIC.

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01
Essay

Why the Kitchen Is the Most Psychological Room in Any Home

How the position of a chopping board reveals a household's communication patterns — and what architects miss.

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02
Field Notes

Passive Cooling in the Brahmaputra Valley: What Old Houses Already Knew

Vernacular climate intelligence in Assam and its relevance to contemporary sustainable design.

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03
Interview Series

How You Live: Conversations About Space and Selfhood

When did your space feel truly like yours — and when did it not?

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04
Research

Biophilic Design in Urban Assam: A Case for Vertical Green

Biophilic principles applied to high-density urban contexts in India's Northeast.

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"
WHEN SOMEONE ENTERS THE SPACE,
THEY SHOULD NOT SAY:
"WOW THE ARCHITECT DID A GREAT JOB."
THEY SHOULD SAY:
"THIS HOUSE IS SO YOU."

Ar. Neha Singhi — Brand Philosophy

07 — Begin a Project

LET'S BUILD
SOMETHING
YOURS.

Every project starts with a single conversation. Tell us about your life — how you move, what you need, what you dream about in a space.

Studio Guwahati, Assam, India
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We take on limited projects each year to ensure every client receives our full attention.