Ismet Khambatta- Women in Architecture 2000 Plus: An event by The Hecar Foundation.

She did her Bachelors in Architecture in CEPT, Ahmedabad in 1883. Then did her Masters in Urban Design in 1987. After doing her Apprenticeship with Christopher Benninger, Pune, she is now a partner in 3D Workshop, Ahmedabad, India since 1996, and an Associate Architect with M/s Hasmukh C. Patel since 1990. In between she also worked with several Architects in USA and Switzerland. She has won awards like J.T. Mitchell Travelling Fellowship, Student Exchange Scholarship

A fully air-conditioned guest-house with an area of 3000 sq mt consisting of ten self contained rooms and suites. Provision of recreation room, library, dining hall and a sunken garden. The programme called for a training centre comprising a classroom lab and office and a guest house comprising eight

double rooms, two suites, common room, library, a dining room and a kitchen. The extremely tight site was exploited to locate the training centre in the basement and create a sunken garden

on the side abutting a major 100' wide road.

and National Merit Scholarship. She has written papers like 'Women in the city' and 'Women and Architectural Education'

For the house of a prominent industrialist family of Ahmedabad, the design for the house had to reconcile two contradictory "needs".
1. The need to showcase the life-style of the CEO of a major industrial house.
2. The need to create a genuine feeling of "home" for a small nuclear family.
It is a six-bedroom six-bath house with a formal vestibule, drawing and dining room, a family room, lounge on the ground and first floors, a basement, study and sitting room and a games room.
A 60ft by 22ft outdoor swimming pool forms a part of a health/recreation unit that is housed in a long narrow structure abutting the southern boundary of the site.
This structure has a large pavillion like verandah space with an attached pantry, an exercise room, a four person jacuzzi, steam room and sauna.
The feeling within the building is that of a "hamam" with daylight filtering in through indirect openings and skylights and reflected off blue-green mosaic tiled walls and platforms.

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