Why we stopped specifying gypsum.
Three years of moisture readings, a torn ceiling in a Mussoorie cottage, and what the masons taught us about lime, hair and time.
Folio · MMXXVI · Vol. IV — A studio, not a factory · Mrs. Tulika Sharma, Senior Designer
An architecture & interior design studio — Sahastradhara Road, Dehradun · Uttarakhand
Your vision, from Design to handover.
A · Reel
Folio in motion.
Six recent commissions, each a 25-second trailer cut from our site archive. Drag horizontally on desktop, scroll on mobile — every card a half-frame from a building you can visit.
01/06
← Drag horizontally — or scroll
06 of 06
We don’t sell spectacle. We build dreams that last.Twelve years building across the Doon valley taught us one rule we don’t break: the building ages into the hill — it doesn’t fight it.Lime plaster, not gypsum. Hand-chiselled Dehradun sandstone, not polished marble. The east-facing master bedroom, written into the charter. MDDA submission ready on day one.One senior designer signs every drawing, walks every pour, and stays for the last switch plate.That’s Dios Design — since 2013.
— Mrs. Tulika Sharma
Senior Designer & Founder · Dios Design
D · Principals
Turning blueprints into landmarks.Meet the minds behind it.
TS
Mrs. Tulika Sharma
Senior Designer & Founder · Architect-of-Record · MDDA & RERA filings · Vastu site planning · Interior & joinery leadTwelve years on the drawing board. Sixty-plus buildings stamped with her signature. Mrs. Tulika Sharma is the rare senior designer who still sketches the first line by hand, walks the slab before the first pour, and signs off the last switch plate. Sharpened across a meditation ashram on the Neelkanth Temple Road, a luxury 4-storey Dehradun bungalow with foreigner-rooftop, Sahastradhara apartment fit-outs, a boutique front in Rajouri Garden, and courtyard residences from Vikas Nagar to Race Course. Vastu-aware in writing, MDDA-clean on first submission, RERA-ready by default. The studio standard for the past twelve years is set by one rule — she does not put her name on a drawing she cannot personally defend on site.
— On the site before the masons.
HS
Mr. Hitesh Sharma
Business Head & Co-Founder · MBA · 15 years in construction · Client & vendor liaison · MDDA / RERA filings · Project & cost controlMBA-trained, fifteen years on construction sites — from a single-floor residence in Vikas Nagar to a luxury 4-storey bungalow with foreigner-rooftop in Sahastradhara. Mr. Hitesh Sharma runs the studio the way a seasoned project manager runs a slab pour: timeline by timeline, vendor by vendor, drawing by drawing. He is the first call for every new commission, the one who walks the MDDA submission through the development authority, negotiates the BOQ on your behalf, and quietly makes sure a pour happens on Tuesday and not Wednesday. Twenty-eight site supervisors and material vendors on call across eleven Uttarakhand districts. No project leaves the studio without his rota.
— On the phone with the contractor, before the slab pours.
Material vocabulary
Six materials we keep returning to across the Doon valley and Garhwal hills. Specified by name, never by category — the brand stays in the wood, not the brochure.
Sal & Deodar Timber
Locally sourced · oiledLime Plaster
Pigmented · trowelledDehradun Sandstone
Hand-chiseled · rawMild Steel
Patinated · matteBrushed Brass
Inserts · accentsKhadi Cotton
Off-white · raw weaveFeatured · Abhayaranya Yoga Ashram
F-01 / Rishikesh · Neelkanth Temple Road
Wellness Retreat · Yoga & Vedic ashram · Hill site
·
Phased delivery · Ongoing
An ashram that listens to the Patna waterfall.
Set on the Neelkanth Temple Road, a few hundred metres above the Patna Waterfall in Rishikesh, the brief asked for one thing — a residential yoga ashram where forty practitioners could disappear into the forest without losing the road. We answered with a quiet plinth, a stepped meditation hall facing east, and a long shaded ambulatory that lets every kuṭīra open to morning sun and close to monsoon rain.
Local Sal timber, lime plaster on every internal wall, and Dehradun sandstone underfoot — three materials, no more. The roof tilts away from the prevailing valley wind. Rain water enters a tank under the kitchen courtyard, leaves through a step-well garden, and slowly disappears into the orchard below the yoga hall.
Programme
Residential yoga ashram,
kuṭīras + hall + kitchen
Site
Neelkanth Temple Road,
forest edge, Rishikesh
Built area
Phased,
multi-block layout
Status
In operation,
Phase II joinery
i — Meditation hall, looking east
ii — Kuṭīra row, evening light
iii — Courtyard, timber & stone
iv — Forest ambulatory, dawn
Architecture —
Residential
01
A · Houses
- Bespoke residences & courtyard homes
- Vastu-aware spatial planning
- Climate-responsive envelopes
- 2D / 3D visualisation, MDDA approvals
- Turnkey execution & site supervision
62 built · 11 in progress
Studio
Interior —
Commercial
02
B · Offices
- Office & co-working architecture
- Retail & display optimisation
- Restaurant, café & bar ambience
- Branded interior themes
- Functional furniture & lighting
84 fit-outs · 04 awarded
Studio
Hospitality —
Stay & Retreat
03
C · Stays
- Boutique hotels & eco-resorts
- Guesthouses, homestays, retreats
- Wellness centres & yoga halls
- Lobbies, suites, spa & F&B
- Sustainable construction
21 properties · 09 in operation
Studio
Landscape —
& Garden
04
D · Land
- Courtyards & entry sequences
- Native planting palettes
- Pool, water-body & reflection pools
- Lighting choreography
- Hardscape & stone detailing
38 grounds · in-house team
Studio
Six rooms worth remembering.
N° 001 / 24
Residence · Mussoorie
N° 002 / 24
Interior · Sahastradhara
N° 003 / 23
Interior · Dehradun
N° 004 / 23
Hospitality · Rishikesh
N° 005 / 22
Residence · Rajpur
N° 006 / 22
Retail · New Delhi
Showing 06 of 240 projects · 2007 – 2026
Full archive
How a building arrives.
Phase 01 · Meet & Agree04 — 08 wk
The first conversation.
Every project starts with a long, slow conversation. Site visits, programme briefs, lifestyle audits, budget calibration. We leave with a written charter both parties sign — the document a building is held accountable to.
BriefCharterSite reportFee proposal
Phase 02 · Idea & Concept06 — 10 wk
Two or three directions, tested.
Concept sketches, massing models, mood boards, material samples, daylight studies, and Vastu overlays. We test two or three directions in parallel, then commit to one before any line is drawn in earnest.
MassingMood boardMaterialsDaylightVastu
Phase 03 · Design & Create12 — 20 wk
Drawings the contractor can love.
Architectural drawings, 3D visualisations, MEP coordination, joinery details, lighting plans, landscape sections — issued for tender. A single coordinated set, not a stack of disconnected PDFs.
GA set3D walkthroughJoineryMEPBoQ
Phase 04 · Build & Install36 — 80 wk
We are there for the last switch plate.
Weekly site walks, daily WhatsApp logs, mock-up samples on every finish. Our team is present from civil work to the last switch plate — the room is handed over with a binder, a maintenance plan, and a photograph.
SupervisionMock-upsFF&EHandoverAftercare
0+
Commissions
Built across three states since 2007 — every one a slow conversation.
0
Years
Between the first courtyard in Dehradun and today's mountain retreat.
0
Hands on the floor
Architects, designers, draftsmen, gardeners — twelve cities of training.
0
Awards
National & regional citations for residential, hospitality and retail.
Recognition & Notable Projects
2013 — 2026 · selected commissions
2024
Doon Devine Apartment
3 BHK interior fit-out, IT Park Sahastradhara — joinery & lighting by Dios Arch Design
Sahastradhara · 2024
↗
2024
Vikas Nagar Residence
Private hill home, Dehradun — façade, plan and turnkey delivery
Vikas Nagar · 2024
↗
2023
Jyotish Vedang Wellness
Vedic consultation centre on DIT Mussoorie Road — interior & lighting
Mussoorie Rd · 2023
↗
2020
Abhayaranya Yoga Ashram
Residential yoga & meditation ashram, Neelkanth Temple Road, Rishikesh
Rishikesh · ongoing
↗
2019
Rajouri Garden Residence
Family residence interior, Rajouri Garden, New Delhi
Delhi · 2019
↗
2017
Noida Sector 28 Residence
Family apartment interior, Noida Sector 28
Noida · 2017
↗
Field notes from active sites and slow rooms.
Featured · Materials · 14 min read
Why we stopped specifying gypsum on every hill project.
Three years of moisture readings, a torn ceiling in a Mussoorie cottage, and what the masons taught us about lime, hair and time. A field study from the floor, with photographs from four commissions and a hand-drawn moisture map.
Materials
Six things Yamuna stone taught us about restraint.
Hand-chiseled, never polished — a study in how a stone's edge changes the room it borders, and why we now budget twice for finishes.
Vastu & Light
Vastu without religion: the part our clients feel.
We don't ask anyone to believe. We do orient the master bedroom away from the kitchen wall — and the data on sleep quality is too good to ignore.
Construction
Why a topographic survey saves the hill house from itself.
October concrete, a wet excavator boom, and what we re-learned about timing the lift on a hillside slab.
Hill climate
The verandah is the longest room in the house.
Why a 50-metre covered edge changed every interior decision behind it — and how to size one for the Doon valley specifically.
Interior
Light as structure: a half-day with Sumita Bose.
Our lighting consultant on why a room should change five times a day — and how to draw that change before the wires are laid.
Studio practice
Inside the Sahastradhara drawing studio.
Why every Dios commission is finished in our own joinery shop — and the four machines we won't outsource.
Hill climate
Designing for the monsoon, not against it.
The roof tilts inward, the courtyard tank fills first, the verandah floor slopes 1:80 outward — six small decisions for a wet season.
Showing 07 of 24 posts · Bi-weekly publishing schedule
Browse the full archive
Notes from the drawing board.
The case for lime plaster, again.
Three reasons we stopped specifying gypsum on hill projects — and what the masons taught us in the process.
Read essayLight as structure: a half-day with Sumita Bose.
Our lighting consultant on why a room should change five times a day, and how to draw that change before the wires are laid.
Read essayWhy a topographic survey saves the hill house from itself.
Reflections from the boom of an excavator on a wet October morning — and what a site teaches you that a section can't.
Read essayThe reference archive.
Mountain Residence · Elevation
Villa · Ground Floor Plan
Master Suite · Dawn study
Villa · First Floor Plan
Yoga Ashram · South facade
Bungalow · Section A-A
Office · Workstation row
4-BHK Bungalow · Floor Plan
Stair · Sal & sandstone
Luxury Bungalow · Site & Rooftop
Courtyard House · North wall
3-Storey Bungalow · Elevations
Retreat Suite · Garden view
4-Storey Bungalow · Floor Plans
Garden Court · Reflection pool
Luxury Bungalow · 3D Massing
Pankhudii Boutique · Front display
Villa · Elevations & Section
Race Course Residence · Façade
Abhayaranya Ashram · Forest suite
Showing 19 of 1,432 references · Updated weekly
Open full library
G · 08 / 09 · Studio
Let's begin a slow conversation.
Visit
Sahastradhara Road,
Opposite Pacific Golf Estate,
Kulhan, Kulhan Mansingh,
Dehradun 248013,
Uttarakhand · IN
Telephone & WhatsApp
+91 84334 28590Mon — Sat, 10:00 — 19:00 IST · WhatsApp preferred for first contact.
DIOS.designer