Karachi

Houses built
around a single
idea.

Three-quarter render of Residence One at dusk, lit living room behind full-height glazing

Shapes and Spaces designs, builds and furnishes private residences in Karachi. Each house is completed in full — architecture, interiors, joinery and landscape — and released to one owner.

The work

01

Architecture

Every residence begins in section. Volumes are set against each other before a plan is drawn — double heights, voids, bridges, and the openings that let daylight travel four levels down. The shape of the house is the argument; the elevation only reports it.

02

Interiors

Interiors are designed with the building, not after it. Stone is selected at the slab and book-matched where the vein earns it. Joinery is made in a single workshop in solid mahogany and kale. Brass is left unlacquered. Floors run wide and continuous, wall to wall, without thresholds.

03

Completion

Houses are delivered furnished and styled — kitchens, wardrobes, lighting, art, and the pieces in every room. Nothing is left as a decision for the owner to make. The keys are handed over to a house that is already finished.

Residence One
Front elevation render of Residence One — brass-lined canopy, timber slats and fluted concrete at dusk
Residence One DHA Phase VIII, Karachi

A living room suspended between the ground floor and the basement, above the pool, reached by a glass bridge. 8,200 square feet over four levels. Completing 2027.

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500Square yards
8,200+Square feet
21Solid wood doors
12ftPool below road level

Specification

  1. 01

    Structure

    Raft foundation, cast-in-situ retaining walls, full basement. Slab-to-slab heights of eleven feet and above throughout.

  2. 02

    Surfaces

    Book-matched marble to principal rooms. Honed stone underfoot. Fair-faced concrete left as struck. Full-height doors, flush-set, in solid hardwood.

  3. 03

    Joinery

    Mahogany and kale, seasoned and made in one workshop to a single approved polish. Wardrobes, panelling, kitchens and doors from the same hand.

  4. 04

    Systems

    Concealed HVAC, layered lighting on scene control, tanked waterproofing below grade, and back-of-house circulation kept entirely separate from the family's.

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