Founded in 2003, Sanctuary’s architecture and spatial designs have defined F&B outlets for international brands, high-end beauty salons and spas, corporate nerve centres, residences and chic lounges from Bangalore to Barcelona. Whether it is shaping a sleek yet snug abode for a family, designing corporate headquarters encapsulating a company’s cross-continental strategy, or delivering an extraordinary commercial spatial solution through highly professional brand driven design, Sanctuary broadens its aesthetics to sensitively heighten and realise a vision.
The firm is committed to creating timeless works by delivering quality and striking a balance between functionality and spirituality. The beauty of simplicity is evident in the spaces Chodha’s team help lend an identity to. Whether bathed in baroque colours and textures, or steeped in Zen and Wabi-sabi minimalism, Sanctuary’s projects all contain its signature style – roomy spaces suffused in light, done up in inventive and pleasing colour schemes that invite you to linger a while longer.
Anshul’s true strength and motivation come from an ancient meditation discipline that he has been following for many years: a path that has answers to life’s every question, revealing abstract secrets behind all creation and creativity, through self-experience
This unique interest is undoubtedly the factor that catalysed Anshul’s new association with renowned German designer Dieter Dreesen, who himself is a passionate Zen Buddhist and devout meditator. They formed their partnership while they were working together on the interior and graphic design of F&B areas for the Bangalore and Hyderabad international airports. Their intention is to merge established European design culture with modern Indian design power, to offer commercial and corporate spatial design on a high professional and international level, with interiors, graphics, information, product, and all concerned services and solutions under one umbrella.
Starting early 2008, Anshul and Dieter will also pioneer to offer real green architecture in India, in collaboration with an architecture firm that brings with it 12 years’ experience across Europe, and intense technological research in the field. Their vision is to offer cutting edge contemporary architecture combined with state-of-the-art ecological methods and technology. The technologically oriented projects are to span from resorts and hotels, shopping centres and office buildings, to public spaces and residences, and will present a fusion of contemporary architecture and design while being eco-friendly, energy saving and using sustainable technology. Green design seeks to reduce natural resource consumption, enhance quality of life, improve infrastructure efficiency and still be economically viable. In these partnerships, the evolving philosophy is described by Dreesen as 'simplexity' - a word that conveys the balance between the complexity of a global world with its visual information overload, and the sensitive human factor of the end experience.
With a dozen residential architecture and interior design projects in progress, and several swanky bars and restaurants on the drawing table, Sanctuary is set on a fast growth model.