..AND THE LEGACY LIVES ON

Sanchit Arora trains his young eyes towards creating an architectural identity through fantastical concepts. We chart how the architect has propelled the trajectory of RENESĀ, the studio founded by his father Sanjay Arora, towards being touted as one of the leading avant-garde design firms in the country

- AVRIL NOEL DSOUZA

To talk about the present and the future it is very important we travel back in time all the way to when Sanchit Arora was a toddler. Ever since he could remember, Sanchit wanted to be an architect. Seeing his father Sanjay Arora, the founder of RENESĀ, scribble with different pencils as scale sets lay scattered all over the house, while drafting boards were intrinsic additions in the living room...memories of his father starting the day with design and ending it huddled with his team around old sets of slow computers are the embers that flamed his young ambition. Sanchit reminisces, "It's beautiful how life repeats itself and the whole circle keeps continuing to make way for the same memories but in a very modern way now."

I love looking at the most ordinary fundamental forms and constantly think of ways of reinventing them with or without its function having any repercussions. The most beautiful ideas make way from the simplest of things and that's how we as architects keep reinventing the same simple things in its most varied forms and thoughts.

- Sanchit Arora, Principal Architect, RENESĀ