What do you do when you are an internationally acclaimed architect in Mumbai?u00a0You build yourself a bachelor pad worth approximately Rs 4.5 crore and then go home to stay with your parents, Ashiesh Shah would say with a chuckle.u00a0 <img alt="" src="/imagedata/2012/apr/Masjid-Bunder.jpg" style="width: 500px; height: 323px; " /> Le Mill, the multi-functional, lifestyle concept store at Masjid Bunder. Thirty-three year-old Shah spent two months studying dentistry before he realised that rubber surgical gloves couldn&rsquo;t contain his creativity. &ldquo;I needed a language for my art, so I chose architecture. Nobody in my family was working in that sector, so I got a chance to carve my own way forward,&rdquo; says the Rachana Sansad&rsquo;s Academy of Architecture graduate. Working in New York and Mumbai, Shah&rsquo;s portfolio runs through a long list of big names and even more spacious houses for Nisa Godrej, Baba and Amit Kalyani, Sandeep Raheja, Ranbir Kapoor and Nari Dalamal. <img alt="" src="/imagedata/2012/apr/Ashiesh_Shah.jpg" style="width: 500px; height: 426px; " /> Architect Ashiesh Shah The shiniest star on his shoulder however comes with the 15,000 square feet art and heritage store at Masjid Bunder &mdash; Le Mill. Work began with cleaning and resurrecting the space, which originally functioned as a rice mill. &ldquo;Mumbai&rsquo;s first concept store, Le Mill, gave me the freedom to build with no systematic guidelines. The store exudes a post-industrial feel; an architectural project that uses the idea of incidental architecture,&rdquo; explains Shah. Shah has fun with the idea of breaking stereotypes and playing with form and function, his Peddar Road house being the epitome of his thoughts. He says, &ldquo;How many times have you fallen asleep on the couch? I have a bed in my living room because spaces should be multi-functional in value. As designers, when we create a space, we walk out of the house, but when a person lives in it, the design is activated.&rdquo;u00a0

Ashiesh Shah is the only Indian architect to make it to the top 50 best contemporary store design charts and will be featured in Fashion World   ufffd Contemporary Retail Spaces,   to be released   in May

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