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SROT: Source of Regeneration, Opportunities, and Transformation

Restoring, nurturing, and empowering natural landscapes and communities.

What is SROT?

In Hindi and Sanskrit, ‘Srot’ means ‘Source’.
For us, SROT is: Source of Regeneration, Opportunities, and Transformation.

We are a Source of efforts

Our Essence

SROT is a collective initiative that weaves architecture, education, and ecology into a shared fabric of resilience. We collaborate with artisans, workers, designers and students to revive indigenous knowledge, re-imagine infrastructure, and shape spaces that emerge from the land and root themselves in the lives of those who inhabit them.

Our Vision

We envision a world where built environments are not imposed, but emerge, organically, ecologically, and equitably. Where settlements grow in conversation with landscapes, and every design gives back to land, life, and nature.

“SROT exists to restore, nurture, and empower natural landscapes and communities.”

Our Mission

Our Principles

Soil First

We build with what the earth gives us, mud, lime, stone, wood, not chemicals.

Architecture as Ecology

We design as part of ecosystems, not just for humans, but with all living systems in mind.

Learning as Liberation

We believe education is a right, not a privilege. Free workshops, open labs, inclusive studios and hands-on learning for all.

Craft as Culture

Every skill is a legacy. We honor every artisan and every fingerprint on the wall.

People as Partners

Communities are not beneficiaries; they are collaborators, mentors, and co-designers.

Living as Sustenance

To live sustainably is to live in a way that nourishes life itself, our bodies, our communities, and the environment.

Our Impact

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What we do?

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Who are we?

We are a small collective that began with two people who came together with a shared intention to question how we build, and who we build for. What happens when you step away from the architect's table and sit with those who have built with bare hands, for generations? What if design was not just for cities or clients, but for the land, for the unheard, for the unseen?

SROT is our shared vow: to walk slower, think deeper, and root wider.

Our Voices

Ar. HARSHIKA VERMA

President | Co-Founder

M.Sc. Urbanism, Landscape, Planning | KU Leuven, Belgium

Hi, I'm a design urbanist whose work rethinks the way cities understand nature and infrastructure. I do not see cities as grids, but as living ecologies, where the human and more-than-human coexist and influence one another. In my design approach, empathy is an essential tool. We must learn to listen to seasons, to people, to landscapes, and to the often-unmapped voices that shape how we inhabit the world. My work moves across disciplines, focusing on communities living within ecological thresholds, rebuilding relationships between people, place, and the systems that sustain them.

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Ar. ADITYA SHARMA

Managing Director | Co-Founder

B.Arch | Vaishnavi School of Architecture, Vijayawada, India

I design learning journeys that hold space for artisans, students, and researchers to meet as equals. My practice stretches between construction sites and classrooms where we test regenerative details, document traditional craft, and mentor young builders. I love translating complex systems into simple rituals so that every person who touches a project experiences the dignity, care, and curiosity that brought it to life.

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RAJESH KUMAR VERMA

Chief Financial Officer

M.Sc. Mathematics | University of Lucknow, India

Namaste, I have retired as Assistant Director in the National Statistical Office after decades of service in India's statistical system, including NSO, MSME, and the Labour Bureau. Much of my work there was with large datasets, financial records, and systems of accountability. I believe honesty is the foundation of all work, and that what we give returns to us. At SROT, I guide our financial planning with the same precision, building trust and ensuring transparency and sustainability.

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SHIVENDRA SINGH

Long-term Volunteer

B.Tech (Hons) CSE | IIIT Kottayam, India

Hello, I am a software engineer and technology enthusiast excited to support SROT's digital journey. Drawn by the vision of regeneration and community collaboration, I look forward to contributing my technical skills to help amplify SROT's mission. Guided by curiosity and a spirit of learning, I am eager to work with the team and be part of meaningful, tech-enabled connections for positive change.

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"We do not lead SROT. We live it. We shape it as it shapes us."

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Volunteer Benedikt Haab
Volunteer Bhumika Yadav
Volunteer Daniel Nagesh
Volunteer Elham Arif
Volunteer Elizaveta Letiyagana
Volunteer Geetika Tyagi
Volunteer Keshava Tanguturi Shiva
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Volunteer Negar Hashemi
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Volunteer Katta Shankaraj
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Our Invitation

If you care about where your shelter comes from, and who builds it, and how, step into SROT. If you believe that architecture can heal, that community is a design process, and that nature is not something we build on, but something we build with, walk with us. If you see the land not just as terrain, but as a teacher, a living system that shapes how we dwell, move, and grow, you are already part of our work.

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Questions, comments, suggestions or requests? Everyone is welcome here. You don't need an architecture background, curiosity is enough.

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H No 78, Phase 2, 5-1-417/8
Moula Ali Housing Board, Secunderabad (500040)