Frame the light
Orient openings, courtyards and thresholds so daylight becomes an active part of the spatial experience.
Architect · spatial strategy · adaptive reuse
Spaces with an inner light.
I'm Maya Rao, an architect shaping civic, cultural and hospitality spaces around daylight, movement and human rhythm. AtriumAurora is my visual language: warm, structural, luminous.
Scroll the built sequence
MALIGHT / FORM / PLACE
01 / The practice
Architecture begins before the plan.
The work starts with reading a site: its light, edges, public life, climate and existing structure. From there, I build spatial narratives that are practical enough to construct and memorable enough to inhabit.
ATRIUM STUDY / A-01 / 1:100
Make movement legible
Circulation becomes a sequence of compression, release, pause and discovery rather than a leftover corridor.
Give materials a voice
Stone, brick, timber, concrete and metal are composed for touch, weathering and long-term character.
02 / Expertise
A toolkit for place.
Rather than generic percentage bars, capability appears as architectural instruments: each one is a layer in the design process.
Concept + Form
Spatial narratives, massing studies, precedent research and design direction.
Technical Design
Detail development, consultant coordination, material logic and constructability.
Adaptive Reuse
Existing-building analysis, sensitive interventions and new life for inherited structures.
Visualization
Atmospheric diagrams, material studies and presentation systems that explain the idea quickly.
Site Strategy
Climate response, landscape relationships, pedestrian experience and public thresholds.
Delivery + Leadership
Design reviews, stakeholder communication, team direction and decisions under constraint.
03 / Selected work
Built stories, not object shots.
A cinematic edit of projects where light, sequence and the existing fabric of a place shaped the final architecture.
Courtyard House for a Changing Climate
A compact urban residence organized around a planted thermal courtyard. Deep reveals, brick screens and shaded terraces turn the section into the project's environmental engine.
38%reduced cooling load
4light courts + voids
1continuous social spine
Mill to Makers' Hall
Retained a century-old industrial shell while inserting a luminous public stair and flexible studios.
Monsoon Courtyard Hotel
Rooms, dining and garden spaces arranged as a slow sequence around water and filtered shade.
04 / Journey
From drawing board to site walk.
Selected experience across design studios and independent commissions.
Principal Architect · Northline Studio
Lead architect for civic, hospitality and residential commissions, coordinating design teams from concept through site delivery.
Senior Architect · Atelier Meridian
Developed large-scale residential and adaptive-reuse projects, with a focus on material systems, detailing and client presentations.
Architectural Designer · Form & Field
Built a foundation in drawing, model-making, competition work and site-responsive design across mixed-use and cultural projects.
05 / Start a conversation
Bring me a place.
Have a site, an inherited building, or an idea that needs spatial direction? Tell me what you are imagining.
✉ maya@example.com
☎ +91 98 4521 0037
◈ Bengaluru, India