01Residential·Mumbai·2027
Meridian House
Eighty-eight residences stacked around a continuous vertical garden, oriented so that every home faces both the sea and the monsoon wind.
In ConstructionAurelis Developments — Est. 2003
SPACES THAT DEFINE THE FUTURE
We don't just build properties. We create landmarks.
Landmarks
41
Countries
05
Since
2003
The practice
Aurelis House, Malabar Hill. The practice has worked from the same four rooms since 2003.
We build fewer buildings than anyone we compete with. Each one is designed to be standing, useful and admired in a hundred years — which turns out to be the hardest brief in the industry.
What we hold to
Four projects in design at once. No more, ever. It costs us roughly six commissions a year and it is the reason the work is what it is.
What we refuse
Render, composite panel, and any external joint that depends on sealant. If a material cannot survive forty years untouched, it does not go on a building of ours.
The practice, in figures
- 23
- Years of practice
- 41
- Landmarks delivered
- 2.4M
- Square metres built
- 100%
- Certified sustainable
Founded in Mumbai, 2003
Across five countries
Residential, cultural, civic
Every project since 2019
Selected work
Forty-one buildings. Four in design at any moment.
02Residential·Alibaug·2025
Casa Solana
Nine private villas cut into a laterite slope above the Konkan coast, roofed in planted earth so the hill reads unbroken from the sea.
Completed
03Mixed-Use·Dubai·2027
North Light Pavilion
A workspace, gallery and market block covered by a single perforated canopy that puts the entire ground plane in shadow.
In Construction
04Cultural·Mumbai·2024
The Stone Archive
A basalt-clad archive and gallery holding 40,000 architectural drawings, with its entire ground floor given back to the street as covered public space.
CompletedPhilosophy
Four rules we have never broken.
Permanence over novelty
“A building should be more interesting at forty than at four.”
We specify for the second half of a building's life. That rules out most of what is currently fashionable and nearly everything that relies on a sealed joint. What remains is a narrow, old palette — stone, concrete, brick, timber, patinating metal — chosen because its failure is gradual and legible rather than sudden and expensive.
The ground belongs to the city
“Whatever we build above, the street level is not ours to keep.”
Every Aurelis project gives measurable ground-plane area back as public or semi-public space — unticketed, unlocked, and usable without buying anything. It is the part of a building that the most people will experience and the part that developers most reliably surrender to parking and service doors.
Climate is the plan
“Orientation, mass and shade before machinery.”
Mechanical systems are the last resort, not the first move. Sun path, prevailing wind and thermal mass determine the plan before a single service is drawn. Four of our completed buildings have no mechanical cooling in their primary living spaces, in climates where that is supposed to be impossible.
Fewer, and better
“Never more than four projects in design at once.”
A self-imposed ceiling, held since 2004. It costs us roughly six commissions a year. In exchange, every project has a director who has stood on its site more than thirty times and can account for every significant decision made on it. We have not found a way to buy that with headcount.
Sustainability
The greenest building is the one already standing.
Embodied carbon is the number the industry does not model, because it does not appear in the appraisal. We model it first, publish the counterfactual we rejected, and let the arithmetic decide.
46%
Average whole-life carbon reduction
Against like-for-like baselines, portfolio-wide
91%
Structure retained at Porto Atelier
4,180 tCO₂e of embodied carbon avoided
100%
Projects third-party certified
Every project designed since 2019
4
Buildings with no mechanical cooling
In primary living spaces
Insights
Arguments we are willing to publish.
Enquiries
We don’t just build properties. We create landmarks.
We take on four projects at a time. If you are considering a site, a collaboration or a commission, the conversation starts here — and it starts with a real person reading it.