Although the Architecture is a male dominated profession arena, it is currently envisaging a significant rise in the arrival of women leaders. Proficiently skilled to spearhead the rapidly evolving architecture industry which has been profoundly influenced by technology and globalization at present, the women architects are proving to be futuristic and pragmatic leaders. One such persona is Ruchika Mittal who has worked on numerous workplace projects across India for clients in financial, technology, cultural, educational, and communication sectors among others. By the virtue of her strong leadership qualities, which majorly encompasses quick adoption of emerging technologies and tailor-made solutions to clients’ requirements. A woman with a multidimensional ability to think and act which has helped her to adapt and grow in any challenge, Ruchika has never been afraid to push boundaries and face new challenges as an architect.

Women Entrepreneur magazine engages in an exclusive interaction with Ruchika Mittal, an architect with a keen eye for detail whose projects are meticulously designed and unerringly refined.

Give us a brief overview of your firm asid consultants. How has it helped you to sharpen your expertise as an architect?

Asid consultants were just a pen, a drawing board, and an idea in two young minds. Sanjeev, an architect with Masters in Construction Management from IIT Delhi, and I sketched out our first designs and the future of asid on our kitchen table. Since then, we have not stopped moving, and we have no intention of stopping.

Fast forward 25 years, we have established a multidisciplinary design practice and are operating from our primary office in New Delhi, delivering projects pan India and neighboring countries. Equipped with more than 20 architects and designers, every day, (we shape the resilient world, focusing every inch of design around human needs). Forging the perfect amalgamation of Architecture, Engineering and Construction, we are delivering impeccable results as per our customers’ needs and demands.

Walk us through your initial educational and professional journey. Throw some light on your expertise as an architect.

Architecture just happened to me; I think it is more of a destiny! I commenced my journey as an architect in the year 1995 and continue to grow with a prolific carrier through leadership positions with renowned companies. Believing that design is best when it is simple, elegant and timeless, I started living the idea and ideologies of asid consultants soon after graduation.

I have always wanted to put architecture into the sixth sense, because it demands you to create a "sixth sense." Through my designs, I strive to stimulate people’s senses, add new possibilities to our environment and try to make it more alive by arousing the sixth sense.

“Through the integration of experience expertise and technology, we aim to design spaces that provide the best environment for people to give efficiently & effectively”

Tell us about the various architecture and interior design and build solutions that asid consultants specializes in.

Experienced in all typologies, scale and context, Asid Consultants specializes in corporate interiors, industries, QSR, housings, building homes, hospitality, public buildings, and so on. As a future-oriented firm we are seamlessly engaged in harnessing emerging technologies, educating young people, and more importantly, cultivating knowledge through our industry-specific and innovative solutions.

How do you ensure that every client requirement is met in the most efficient, timely and cost-effective manner?

With Strong professional curiosity, we listen to our clients and understand their business. By engaging ourselves in rigorous dialogue with our clients, we ensure to provide each client with unique, practical and personalized solutions. Understanding the commercial impacts of workplace environments, we have always seen our involvement with clients as a partnership.

What is the roadmap set for the future endeavors of asid consultants?

Through the integration of experience, expertise and technology, we aim to design spaces that provide the best environment for people to live efficiently and effectively. We take our clients very seriously, as every satisfied client paves the way to our future.

Ruchika Mittal, Managing Partner, Asid Consultants

A great team leader, and passionate designer with high-quality standards, Ruchika stands apart from the rest owing to her talent for both managing diverse teams as well as grasping and articulating client needs. Worked on a series of workplace projects for clients across spectrum of business, she has been connected with the top design firms during earlier years of her carrier which sharpened her skills and talent to set up Asid consultants in 2007. An award-winning design firm providing services in Architecture, Interior design, Project-Management, Feasibility studies and design-build solutions across India, Asid has delivered a wide range of projects comprising of Community Development, Corporate Offices, Institutional Buildings, Hospitality, Retail, and Industrial Projects under the guidance of Ruchika Mittal.