Architect & Integrated Sustainability engineer and Co - Founder of The Auroma Group, Trupti hails from Mumbai with 15+ years of experience in ecological design, eco-friendly materials, appropriate building technologies, rainwater harvesting, waste management, energy efficiency, thermal comfort and use of renewables.

 

A speaker at TEDx and covered by platforms like YourStory and The Better India, Trupti sees buildings and cities as complex living organisms which are parts of the larger cyclical loops of nature.

 

She has lectured widely on a variety of subjects ranging from hidden geometry in nature, sustainability, smart cities, the role of technology, social development, Indian architecture and environmental entrepreneurship among others in several colleges and universities in India and across numerous cities in Europe. Recently, she was the speaker from Asia for the Bio-Architecture conference in Portugal. Her audience ranges from architects, civil engineers, environmentalists & planners to entrepreneurs, start-ups and students.

 

Trupti has addressed over 200 groups and personally interacted with over 1000 highly prestigious consultants and personalities of national and international repute from academia and industry including top management at The World Bank, UBS - Union Bank of Switzerland, MNRE - Ministry of New and Renewable Energy - Govt. of India, Stanford University, TERI - The Energy and Resources Institute, Cadbury, Forbes, Mckinsey, Bridge Partnership, The Taj group, University of Oregon among several others, all of whom have been greatly inspired by her systemic approach and the synthesis of so many diverse disciplines into an integrated whole.

 

She has worked on the design of educational institutes, health resorts, youth precincts, semi-urban sustainable campuses & bespoke urban residences and undertakes projects in different parts of India.

 

She has been the Chief Co-Architect of Sri Aurobindo Society, an international NGO, where in addition to master planning numerous large institutional projects spanning several acres, she gained the special recognition as the youngest Indian woman architect to have been featured by the United Nations Environment Programme for co-creating "Sharanam - phase 1- Institute for Rural Transformation  as a model for sustainable development in India.

 

When she is not on a building site, you can find her bird watching atop a mountain in Ladakh, capturing the diversity of the world through her lens, meeting inspiring people innovating in Entrepreneurship, learning a new language - currently on her 7th - or simply enjoying the fresh air and writing poetry.