SHiFt Studio for Habitat Futures

SHiFt Studio for Habitat Futures is a New Delhi practice in architecture and project management led by managing principal Sanjay Prakash. Its team of architects, engineers and project managers has worked for more than 30 years on passive and low-energy architecture, hybrid air-conditioning, off-grid energy and water systems, earth and bamboo construction, and community-led planning.

Its projects include the TERI Retreat at Gual Pahari, campuses for IIIT Delhi, IIT Jodhpur and Delhi Technological University, the Agilent Technologies campus in Manesar, and T-Zed housing in Bangalore. It also designed Taj Safaris lodges at Panna and Kanha, and the bamboo-domed Indian Pavilion at Expo 2010 Shanghai. The studio reports more than 150 projects and over 21 million sq ft designed.

Of note

• TERI Retreat, Gual Pahari, completed in 2001, is described as India's first off-grid building.
• IIT Jodhpur won GRIHA Exemplary Awards in three categories and is described as India's largest GRIHA LD 5-star campus.
• The Indian Pavilion at Expo 2010 Shanghai, a large bamboo dome, won a people's choice award from EXHIBITOR Magazine.
• Agilent Technologies, Manesar, and Taj Banjaar Tola each won the Emerson Cup for India and South East Asia.