I’m Maya Sen, an architect working across civic, residential and adaptive-reuse projects. ArchipelagoAperture treats every project as a constellation: distinct rooms, structures and landscapes connected by deliberate thresholds, light and movement.
Enter the project atlas ↘Architecture becomes more useful when circulation, climate, material and social life are designed as one system rather than separate layers.
A role-specific studio toolkit focused on the spatial decisions that make architecture perform beautifully.
Pairing existing structural intelligence with new programs, services and carefully staged interventions.
Using courtyards, apertures, shade and landscape to turn environmental forces into spatial qualities.
Making public buildings legible, welcoming and adaptable through strong thresholds and intuitive movement.
Translating a clear spatial idea into coordinated drawings, specifications and construction decisions.
Projects where the architectural "in-between" became the main instrument: courts, passages, ramps, galleries and shaded edges.
A learning campus organized as a sequence of shaded courtyards, rain gardens and shared thresholds.
EDUCATION · NEW BUILDA compact residence retrofit that turns an internal gap into its social and climatic heart.
RESIDENTIAL · RETROFITA flood-aware waterfront pavilion connecting market, performance and monsoon shelter.
CIVIC · WATERFRONTA 1960s office floor transformed into a research archive through a chain of luminous study spaces.
CULTURAL · ADAPTIVE REUSESelected chapters across studios and independent commissions, with a focus on project leadership and delivery.
Leading concept-to-delivery work across civic, residential and adaptive-reuse commissions.
Project leadership, design development and consultant coordination for climate-responsive public projects.
Competitions, housing studies, detailing and construction documentation across mixed-use projects.
Site, climate, movement, memory and constraints become a relational diagram.
Identify the spaces where connection can improve daily life.
Models, material studies and environmental checks turn ideas into decisions.
Coordinate details and consultants without losing the original spatial logic.
For commissions, collaborations and speaking inquiries, send a project note. I'll respond with the right next step.