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.
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.
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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.
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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
Residence One
Float
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.
Raft foundation, cast-in-situ retaining walls, full basement. Slab-to-slab heights of eleven feet and above throughout.
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Surfaces
Book-matched marble to principal rooms. Honed stone underfoot. Fair-faced concrete left as struck. Full-height doors, flush-set, in solid hardwood.
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Joinery
Mahogany and kale, seasoned and made in one workshop to a single approved polish. Wardrobes, panelling, kitchens and doors from the same hand.
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Systems
Concealed HVAC, layered lighting on scene control, tanked waterproofing below grade, and back-of-house circulation kept entirely separate from the family's.