WHO ARE WE

MO-OF/ Mobile Offices is a design practice in Mumbai with focus on Architecture, Urban Design and Interior Design. The studio was founded in 2001 and is led by Partners - Shantanu Poredi (AA, London; C.E.P.T. India) and Manisha Agarwal (Cornell, New York; C.E.P.T. India).

The practice is deeply rooted in the core philosophy of enhancing the human experience in built spaces by providing context conscious architecture that are centred around social, cultural and environmental sensibilities. The work engages in weaving rhetoric between the existing, the programmed, and the nature; thereby creating spaces that allow inclusive, equitable and sustainable communities to thrive.

MO-OF’s expansive portfolio spanning over the last two decades covers a diverse array of sectors, scale, and project types. These range from master planning and architecture of educational campuses, healthcare, residential, commercial, hospitality and art and public exhibitions. This diversity has also facilitated a mix of clientele and agencies. Some of the firm's engagements involve working along with Government agencies such as the University Grants commission (U.G.C), Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRDA), and corporate clients such as REL, Tata housing, etc. to name a few.

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COMPLETED
PROJECTS IN OVER 25 CITIES

250+

PROJECTS

100+

CLIENTS

30+

AWARDS

OUR APPROACH

Collaborative Studio

The firm follows an interdisciplinary studio approach and believes in collaborating with diverse co-creators who bring in a repository of design knowledge. This combined experience value adds unique perspectives within the firm’s life cycle.

Academia

The partners engage in teaching collaborative studios at various institutes in India and internationally. This facilitates a promising mix of pedagogy attributed design practice. Ar.Critique has been one such platform curated by MO-OF as an extension to strengthen industry and educational institutes partnerships.

Competitions

Participating and winning many National open design Competitions has been an integral aspect contributing to the firm’s growth trajectory. This has become a medium of testing various design frameworks into successful built models. MGAHV, SPAV, VJTI and BIS, are few such examples of winning entries that showcase new methods of design innovation in the design of educational institutions and campus housing facilities.

International exposure

MO-OF’s global footprint is recognised through exhibitions, workshops, conferences and awards. Some of these are; the visitors pavilion at the Urbanism and Architecture Biennale at Shenzhen, China, the Aedes Gallery in Berlin, and the Dutch DFA speakers conference in the Netherlands. MO-OF has also received the Eurasian awards for the housing and Institute at SPAV besides the WA awards.

OUR PARTNERS

FOUNDING PARTNER

MANISHA AGARWAL

Architect, Urban Designer, Academician and the founding partner of MO-OF Architects/Mobile Offices in Mumbai. She studied architecture at the School of Architecture at CEPT, Ahmedabad and at the Bezalel Academy of Arts. Jerusalem, Israel. She worked in Auroville and Mumbai after her undergraduate studies and subsequently pursued her Masters in Architecture (Urban Design) at Cornell University, New York where she received several scholarships. Thereafter she worked at Rafael Vinoly Architects in New York before returning to Mumbai. In 2001, she founded MO-OF along with her partner Shantanu Poredi in Mumbai.

Manisha has been teaching design studios at the Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute of Architecture (K.R.V.I.A), Mumbai for over 16 years. Her interests are community housing, educational institutions, hospitality and environmental aspects of design. She has been invited to lecture and also present the firm's work in Russia, at NUS, Singapore and at the KVDF forum at CEPT , Ahmedabad, Indo German Urban-mela at Bangalore amongst several others.

FOUNDING PARTNER

SHANTANU POREDI

Architect, Urbanist, Academician and the founding partner of MO-OF Architects/ Mobile Offices in Mumbai. He studied at the School of Architecture at CEPT, Ahmedabad. After a brief professional training period with Anant Raje, he worked with Architects Combine, Mumbai.. He pursued his Masters in Architecture (Urban Design) on a J.N. Tata Scholarship grant at the Architectural Association, London. Thereafter he worked at Terry Farrell and Partners, London and later in 2001, he founded MO-OF along with his partner Manisha Agarwal in Mumbai.

Shantanu is passionate about the role and integration of educational institutes and architectural practices in India. He is currently the Dean of the undergraduate program at the Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute of Architecture (K.R.V.I.A), Mumbai where he has taught for over 18 years. His areas of interests are design of offices environments, healthcare institutions, educational institutions, exhibition design and art collaborations. He has been invited to lecture and also present the firms work in Amsterdam, Berlin, Shenzhen along with several other cities in India.

OUR TEAM 2002-2022

Aarush Nanavati

Aastha Saha

Aastha Sansare

Aditya Sawant

Ajit Nirmal

Akruti Murhekar

Akshay Aditya

Amruta Sakalkar

Ananya Nayak

Ananya Sawant

Anjum

Anna Jose

Aparajita Bhatt

Arjun Rathi

Arjunan Sanjayan

Atharva Rotkar

Avinash Medhe

Badal Thakkar

Batul Tinwala

Bidisha Ghosh

Bina Bhatia

Buvana Murali

Charu Shah

Chintan Shah

Deeksha Surendra

Deepti D’cunha

Dhara Desai

Dhwani Mehta

Gaurav Powale

Ishika Shah

Jahanavi Kakar

Jahanvi Thapar

Jahnavi Ashar

Jhanvi Sanghvi

Jugal Ahuja

Kalpit Ashar

Karthik Gala

Kevin Shah

Kunal Mokasdar

Lekha Gupta

Lipika Kosambia

Manan Vikam

Manasi Dighe

Mangala Shetty

Marsha Silgardo

Mayuri Sisodia

Monik Gada

Mumtaz Shaikh

Narayan Gumula

Neha Gupta

Neha Karwa

Nidhi Kacholia

Nilay Shah

Nishita Kamdar

Pankti Sanganee

Pathik Joshi

Payal Gandhi

Prachi Parekh

Pragya Adukia

Pranita Shetty

Pranjali Mali

Rajesh

Rajji Desai

Rakesh Gudla

Rani

Renuka Kale

Revati Ramaswamy

Richa Raut

Richa Shukla

Rishabh Chamedia

Rishika Shah

Rishika Shroff

Rishita Das

Riya Godambe

Rushabh Chheda

Rutwik Sathe

Saahil Latheef

Sai Uphad

Sanket Kamdar

Saumya Raja

Saurabh Vaidya

Sejal Agrawal

Serah Yatin

Shatmanyu Rawat

Shireen

Shireen Choudhary

Shivani Shah

Shivani Shedde

Shravan Iengar

Shrutika Mananivanan

Shuchita Bihani

Shweta Sethi

Sonali Potdar

Stuti Shah

Sudipta Iyer

Tanuj Jain

Tara Paulose

Tarjani Samani

Tasneem Vali

Tejashree Barde

Thomas Kariath

Tinkle Mittal

Vaibhav Chopra

Vamsee Janardan

Vardhan Arora

Varun Kapoor

Vatsal Upadhyay

Vedantika Thakkar

Vijay P. V.

Vinay Ekaldevi

Vrushali Pavaskar

Yash Bokade

Yash Salian

Yashaswini

Zahida Kazi

MEP CONSULTANTS

Arkk

Enova

Epsilon

Cutech / Ubtech

Design Bureau

PDA Pankaj Dharkar & associates

DSG

STRUCTURAL CONSULTANTS

KDPL

Manjunath BL

Parag Nerlekar

Girish Wadhwa

Gopal Bennur

Uday Chande

Girish Dravid

Amzad

Clancy Global

Pravin Gala & associates

Sterling Consultancy

VMS

Ducon

Devang Sutaria & associates

QUANTITY SURVEYORS

Dongre Associates

COLLABORATORS

Rajeev Thakker            M.G.A.H.V.

Sudarshan Shetty        Shift Exhibition

Anand Patel                 KMB

Aparajita Basu              KMB

Vyjayanthi Rao             KMB

Santosh Thorat             KMB

Sudipta Iyer                 V.J.T.I. / Ar.critique

P.K.Das                       Nariman Point Redevelopment

Ratan Batliboi               Kharghar Central Park

Ashok Upadhyaya         M.G.A.H.V. / S.P.A.V. / N.S.E.

Allies and Morrison      MBPT

OUR CLIENTS