About
A practice that holds the whole building
Navoarch was founded in 2021 by four partners with one conviction: a building goes wrong in the gaps between the people who design it, the people who approve it and the people who build it. So the practice holds all three. In the countryside that means better ways to build without losing the way people live; in the city it means keeping nature in the plan rather than cutting it out.
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The brief outranks our taste
We will argue for a better idea, in drawings, and say why. We will not build one you did not choose.
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Every site teaches the studio
What goes wrong on site goes back to the drawing board, which is why directors visit sites and why the same people design and deliver.
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Sustainable by default, not as an upgrade
Orientation, shading, water and materials are decided at sketch stage, where they cost nothing. Added later, they cost a great deal.
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Ar. Gyana Ranjan Behera Managing Director & Principal Architect
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Ar. Akash Ranjan Mallik Director – Architecture & Principal Architect
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Prasanta Kumar Sahoo Director – Operations & Finance
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Ar. Yash Jain Director – Business Development & Projects & Principal Architect
Four partners who still run the practice. On most projects, the person who agrees the brief with you is also answerable for what gets built.
In the studio
Architects, interior designers and the people who take a drawing through approval. They resolve the building before anyone digs.
On site
Site engineers and supervisors who make the drawing true, with staged quality checks at the points where a defect is still cheap to correct.
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Founded
Four partners, one office in Bhubaneswar, and a decision to hold design and construction under one roof rather than hand clients from one firm to the next.
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The first commissions
The practice opens for work: the first briefs, the first drawings, the first site.
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Fifty projects
Enough to know what the one-contract model gets right and where it needed tightening.
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One hundred projects
The internal systems rebuilt to carry the next hundred — staged quality checks, a client portal, and Navoarch Office to run the practice.
- 120happy clients
- 169projects completed
- 100,000sq ft designed
- 4founding directors
The founders were educated through Navodaya. Some of what the practice earns goes back to schools and to the land. What we have done