The Asara living room with a low sofa, dark coffee table and sheer curtains.

Architecture · 2024

Asara

An apartment interior for slow living

Asara means shelter. A home designed for slow living, with soft curves, clay tones and custom joinery, taken from AI concept boards to working drawings to finished rooms.

Context
Argo Designlab × Comma Collective
Role
Studio Collaboration
Location
Mumbai, India
Year
2024
Tools
  • Rhino
  • Grasshopper
  • Midjourney
Architecture + Design Volume Zero, May 2026
sq ft
1,300
Press & publications
4

The idea

Slow living is not about doing less; it is about feeling more. Asara, “shelter”, is a home that holds you gently, away from the rush outside.

Built dining corner: marble-topped table with cane chairs and bench under a painted vault, sheer curtains behind
Midjourney concept of the dining space: a long marble table under a painted barrel vault with an arched window and plants
Concept · MidjourneyBuilt
Drag to compare the concept board with the finished dining corner.

The process

Midjourney boards, shaped by insights from a client questionnaire, set the mood: arches, lime plaster, clay and daylight. From them came three unique design elements: a TV unit, a dining vault and built-in living-room seating.

TV unit, exploded axonometric
TV unit · axonometric
TV unit elevation with dimensions
Elevation
TV unit plan with dimensions
Plan
Working drawing of the dining vault
Dining vault · working drawing
Working drawing of the living-room seating
Living seating · working drawing

The home

Morning light traces curves across the living room and pauses where people do. Clay and colour warm the dining table. The studio and bedroom sit as a pair, one for making and one for rest.

Living-room corner with a textured floor lamp, a bonsai, built-in seating and a black stone coffee table, a woman seated at left
Study corner with a boucle lounge chair, arched built-in wardrobes and a desk by a sheer-curtained window