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Architecture & Engineering Practice

Integrated Architecture
& Engineering.

Built environment consulting that brings architecture, engineering, interiors and landscape together—connecting people, nature and the spaces they inhabit.

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Architecture and engineering.
Designed together.

We connect the decisions that shape a place: its purpose, its relationship to the site, its spaces and how it will work. Our India practice brings design, engineering and project consulting together. Our Dubai practice provides architecture, interior and landscape design across the GCC.

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All projects

Architecture & Engineering

One brief. A connected design response.

01 / Understand

Read the place and the brief.

Bring site, climate, use and budget priorities into the same conversation. Shape a clear direction for residential, hospitality, commercial and institutional projects.

Our integrated approach
02 / Design

Design for place and comfort.

Tropical, climate-responsive design is a strength of our practice. Architecture, interiors and landscape work together through orientation, shade and ventilation to reduce heat gain and improve everyday comfort.

Architecture and climate
03 / Coordinate

Carry design into delivery.

Our fee-based integrated project management for turnkey projects connects design decisions, programme and delivery coordination. Responsibilities and specialist appointments are defined for each project.

Project management consultancy

Renovation & Adaptive Reuse

See the potential in what already exists.

Changing needs do not always call for a new building. We assess what to retain, what to improve and how design can reconnect an existing space with everyday life.

The service

Start with the right questions.

Review the existing building, compare interventions and agree the design and specialist scope before work begins.

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The project / Completed 2020

A Tweak, Kondotty.

Targeted changes reconnect a family home with daylight, courtyards and its backyard. Explore the design decisions and the team behind the work.

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Your brief

What needs to change?

Share your location, available plans and the ways your current building falls short.

Discuss an existing building

Every discipline.
A shared design vision.

All services

01

Architecture

Spatial design that resolves programme, place and purpose as a single act.

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02

Master Planning

The ground rules of a project, set at the scale of the site.

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03

Interior Design

Environments shaped by material, light and human experience.

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04

Landscape Design

Ground-level interventions that bind building to ecology.

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05

Space Audit & Assessment

Understand how your space works before deciding what to change.

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06

Renovation & Adaptive Reuse

Assess, enhance and adapt existing spaces around changing needs.

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Project Management

Fee-based integrated project management for turnkey projects, coordinating design, programme and delivery responsibilities within an agreed consultancy scope.

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Sustainability Consulting

Environmental performance integrated from concept to operation.

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09

Structural & MEP Coordination

Bring specialist input into the architectural design.

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10

Traffic & Transportation Planning

Movement planning at building, district and city scale.

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Environmental Engineering

Site assessment, impact analysis and ecological stewardship.

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Our conviction

"The built environment is not neutral. Design and engineering are forms of intervention in how people live, work, move and relate to each other."

URU was founded on a single conviction: that architecture and engineering practiced as separate disciplines produces worse outcomes for clients and worse buildings for the world. A decade of projects, published internationally and recognised by critics and peers across South Asia and the Middle East, has only deepened that belief. In 2025 the practice formalised its Gulf presence by establishing URU Design Services LLC in Dubai. The work continues to be built on disciplinary depth, institutional knowledge and an unwavering standard of integrated delivery.

About the practice

The practice in numbers

100+

Projects delivered

10+

Years in practice — founded Kozhikode, 2015

11

Services — design, assessment and technical consulting

7

Sectors — the 7R framework

3

Active markets — India, UAE, Saudi Arabia

3

Group entities

The four partners of URU Consulting LLP

The Partners

Friendship that became a practice.

In 2015, four friends started URU in a small room in Kozhikode — built on a single refusal: that architecture and engineering should never be separate disciplines. The practice is named after the URU dhows of Beypore, wooden vessels shaped without a single nail, built precisely for the journey ahead.

Safder Machilakath — Principal Designer
Muhammed Siyad MC
Safwan Pulikkal Mukkath
Mohamed Shabeeb P
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The 7R Framework

Seven sectors. One integrated practice.

URU organises its sectoral knowledge across seven domain areas. The disciplines — architecture, engineering, sustainability — are the same in every sector. What changes is the brief, the regulatory environment and the specific technical demands of the building type.

Residential Retail Restaurant Recreational Regenerative Schools Resorts Research
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Sustainability

Design that accounts for what happens after the project is complete.

Sustainability at URU is not a service line. It is the evaluative lens through which every design decision is made, from passive cooling strategy in a Kerala courtyard to whole-life costing in a GCC commercial brief.

Our sustainability commitment

Ecological Balance

Buildings that restore rather than deplete. Net-positive outcomes for biodiversity, water cycle and embodied carbon.

Social Infrastructure

Design that serves communities equitably. Daylight, ventilation and material durability are baseline obligations, not premiums.

Long-Life Economics

Whole-life costing and adaptive reuse potential as the true measure of value. A building that lasts 100 years is more sustainable than one that replaces itself every 25.

Kerala Climate

Courtyard ventilation, laterite thermal mass, deep overhangs and cross-ventilation: the passive logic native to this landscape.

Careers

Build what matters. With people who care.

URU is a practice run on competence, creativity and self-integrity, not surveillance. We are building for the long run and we want people who think that way.

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No open positions at this time, but we are always interested in exceptional people. Send your CV.

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Kerala & South India

Architecture, interiors, engineering and project consulting, grounded in more than ten years of project experience.

Calicut / Kozhikode · Kochi · Bangalore

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Dubai & GCC

Architecture, interior and landscape design through URU Design Services LLC in Dubai.

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Africa & international enquiries

We welcome potential commissions and collaborations in Africa. Scope, delivery arrangements and local partnerships are assessed for each project.

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