We are an architecture, interior design and planning practice in Pune, led by our founders, Shailesh and Vaishali Chaudhari.

For more than 26 years we have designed buildings and interiors in India and abroad.

The studio, Law College Road

Approach

The rooms people live and work in shape how they feel and what they get done. We design first for well-being, focus and creativity, and then for the pleasure of being in the space.

We design new buildings and rework existing ones, and in both the plan starts from what the client needs. We take the same care over the details as over the plan.

The principles we work by: Inspiration, imagination, innovation, integration, inception.

Principals and partner

Portrait of Shailesh Chaudhari
Shailesh ChaudhariFounding partner

Ar. Shailesh Chaudhari is an alumnus of BKPS College of Architecture, University of Pune. He worked under eminent architects in Bangalore and Pune during and after his graduation in 1992. He established Pentagon Architects with partners. After 15 years, he and Ar. Vaishali Chaudhari established their own partnership, VSCAPE. Shailesh is deeply passionate about architecture, and has travelled to places in India and across the globe to explore the architecture. He often spends his free time studying buildings and spaces and great works of designers of the past and present.

+91 98220 09553

Portrait of Vaishali Chaudhari
Vaishali ChaudhariFounding partner

Ar. Vaishali Chaudhari is an alumna of MM College of Architecture, University of Pune. After graduating in 1993, she worked for 2 years under renowned architects in Pune, before establishing her own practice. She also has a post graduate diploma in counselling psychology from Fergusson College. Apart from architecture and interior design, she is passionate about educating young architects entering the professional world and spends a lot of time training young additions to our team. She also loves gardening, and has made significant contributions to infant parenting awareness and the establishment and awareness of related ventures in hospitals across Pune.

+91 98220 42607

Portrait of Ashwin Chaudhari
Ashwin ChaudhariStrategic partner

Ashwin Chaudhari has bachelor's and master's degrees in computer science from PICT and BITS. He started his career in the tech industry in London and New York City, and was a Vice President at Goldman Sachs in New York, where he worked for 22 years. Today he is the founder and CEO of IMATMI, which he started in 2020. He is a strategic partner at VSCAPE architects and with his management expertise, facilitates our new presence in the United States.

Recognition

Awards for the studio’s work, citations, and the press that has written about it.

Awards

2009VMRD Retail Design AwardsCommercialWinner: Tara Traders
2001Inside Outside MegashowBest stall designWinner
1999IIID-MK India AwardsExcellence in Interior Design: Young Design Practice (Commercial)Winner

Citations

  • 2016Rotary International District 3131
    A citation to Vaishali Chaudhari for promoting the Human Milk Donation Programme in Pune
  • 2016WIDE Angle
    Shailesh and Vaishali Chaudhari presented the Prerna and Beyond Design awards

Press

Print · November 1999Indian Architect & Builder“Space ’n’ Style”. Fit in Style, a hardware showroom in Pune
Print · November 1999Indian Architect & Builder“Space ’n’ Style”. Continued: Fit in Style’s display walls and counter

Photographs

Shailesh Chaudhari with the VMRD award for Tara Traders, 2009
Shailesh Chaudhari with the studio’s boards at an IIID-MK exhibition
Shailesh Chaudhari presenting an award at WIDE Angle

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Careers

We are always glad to hear from architects and interior designers who would like to work with us. Write to , or see open positions on LinkedIn.