Tarasta
Mumbai, India
Where Architecture Breathes and Moves
Tarasta transforms hospitality into an experiential journey. Fluid movement, layered volumes, and atmospheric lighting create spaces that evolve with each moment, inviting discovery, pause, and engagement. Here, architecture is not a backdrop—it lives with its occupants.
Where the Horizon Softens
A light canopy defines the horizon of the room. Beneath it, scale dissolves through curvature, texture, and shadow. Seating drifts across the floor, anchored by structure and mural. Planting and warm light compress the volume, allowing openness to feel deliberate, not overwhelming.
Continuity as Invitation
The circle becomes an instrument of gathering. Arches, niches, and layered surfaces recall distant geographies without imitation. Material shifts are subtle, almost quiet, stone yielding to timber, wall to recess. Intimacy is formed not by enclosure, but by continuity.
Location
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Type
Restaurant
Status
Completed in 2024
Built Area
4,300 m²
Height / Floors
4-tier structure
Design Origin
Emotion-driven architectural brief
Design Language
Neo-futuristic, expressive, fragmented, flowing
Client
Vision-driven, artist-centric client
Planning and Project Team
Architectural Firm
Studio SP
Design Principal: Arvind Mehta
Project Partner: Meera Sinha
Design & Architecture Team
Design Architect: Rahul Deshpande
Project Architects: Priya Raghavan, Aman Kapoor
Junior Project Architect: Tanvi Joshi
Design Architects – Interior: Sneha Verma, Ritu Menon, Aaradhya Das
CAD Coordinator: Rohit Chatterjee
Project Team
Neha Bansal, Karan Iyer, Anjali Rawat, Siddharth Nambiar, Divya Shah, Vikram Jha,
Sanya Rao, Aditya Malhotra, Reema D’Souza, Manish Tiwari, Roshni Pillai,
Amitabh Kulkarni, Tanya Sharma, Gaurav Bhagat, Ishita Sen
Consultants
Local Architects: Venkataraman & Associates, Chennai
Acoustics, Audio-Visual & Theatre Design: Arup India, Bengaluru
Landscape Architect: Parul Kaur, Chandigarh
Structural Engineering:
L&T Engineering, Mumbai
Ghosh & Grover Consultants, Delhi
MEP & Fire Engineering: Technip India, Noida
Cost Consultant: CBRE India, Gurgaon
Lighting Design Consultant: Noor Designs, Hyderabad
Interior Design Consultant: Studio Navkaar, Ahmedabad
3D Visualization
Arjun Dey / Isochrom, Delhi, Silkroad, Mumbai
Nikhil Yadav, Sohail Merchant
Project Team 20018-2024
Design Principal: Wolf dPrix
Project Partner: Michael Volk
Design Architect: Andrea Graser
Project Architect: Oliver Sachse
Project Team: Marcelo Bernardi, Jesper Bork, Bo Stjerne Hansen, RobertaÂ
Jiraschek, Daniel Krüger, Carsten Laursen, Martin Oberascher, Florian Pfeifer, Robert Pippan, Marita Schnepper, Sigrid Svensson, Eva Wolf, Carola Böker, Moa Carlson, Isak Foged, Annina Gähwiler, Patricia Gola, Robin Heather, Per Kruse, WinÂ
Man, Ruth Mandl, Aline Müller, Tenna Olsen, Anke Pasolt, Annemarie Pedersen, Eva Ravnborg, Carolin Schmitz-Remberg, Tim Seidl, Guro Sollid, Michele Zanella, Jan-Ruben FischerÂ
Competition Team: Karolin Schmidbaur, Michael Volk
Ian Collins, Joseph Chang, Gavin Farley, Sophie Grell, Georg Kolmayr, James Lowder, Eric Young, Jorge Avila, Jesse Blankenship, Rodrigo Chávez, Catherine Garrison, Sergio Gonzalez, Debi VanZyl
Image: Markus Pillhofer
3D Visualization: Armin Hess/​Isochrom, Matthias Ecker, Stefan Laub
Global Design Excellence Award
– 2023
India Design Forum Honors
– 2024
The Room Finds Its Spine
A single vertical element steadies the space. Rising through the room, it binds the floor, body, and canopy into one gesture. Seating wraps its edge, neither closed nor exposed. Light, foliage, and timber temper height, allowing the room to breathe upward.
A Column That Blooms
The corridor is composed of rhythm. Arches align, stone extends, light marks depth. Walls thicken into moments of pause; services recede into form. Circulation becomes a sequence, measured, continuous, and quietly directional.
Collective Under One Sky
All spaces remain tethered beneath a single roof. Zones emerge through curve, texture, and light rather than boundary. Nothing asserts dominance. The hall remains fluid, shaped by time, occupation, and the shared act of gathering.