Shruti joined dRMM after completing her Part II on the Collaborative Practice course at Sheffield School of Architecture. Prior to this she studied for her undergraduate degree at the University of Bath, and worked as a PI at Hampshire County Architects, Foster + Partners, and Proctor and Matthews. She qualified as a Certified Passive House Designer in 2023. At dRMM, Shruti is working on Television Centre, a residential project on the site of the former BBC studios in White City.

Shruti has a strong interest in participatory architecture – in engaging and involving local communities through crafts and traditional design processes. She explored this in her master’s thesis, undertaken with a peer. The proposal was to appropriate Chatsworth House as a hub for climate activism, intended as a direct response to the 19th century practice of ‘engineering’ nature to create artificially pretty estates. The project was shortlisted for both the StuCAN Climate Prize and the University of Sheffield’s Model Making Award. Outside the studio she likes yoga, cinema and is fascinated by the commonalities between different languages.