Can a client love an architect
the same way a patient loves a doctor?
Each renovation project is a tale – a fusion of story and history. By the time each project ends, we develop a strong bond with the family. The happiness of strangers becoming someone important to us and we becoming someone important to them is something we cannot achieve when we construct huge buildings. Most of the time, I feel that I get more respect than I deserve.
Let me share an anecdote where a mother saw me as “a person who made a paradigm shift in the life of my son” rather than a friend or architect of her son.
I didn’t know how important a home is for a bachelor. I have known him for years. He has a small business, a travel agency and a taxi cab service. He is unmarried and happy with his life.
Look at this building. He wants to buy a home with the money in his hand and the money he will get by selling this building. He decided to marry after this dream is fulfilled. We saw this building accidentally and converted it into a two bedroom house in three months with less than 10 lakh rupees. We didn’t simply build a home here. We changed him from the owner of a 2.25 cent plot of little worth to the owner of an asset worth more than 50 lakhs rupee. His marriage happened within three months.
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