We help write the rules other firms follow
Arena's founder sits on the national and international committees that define how laboratories are designed, including the health, safety and wellbeing of the people who work in them.
Founder & Principal Architect
Ar. Archana Salil
Founder of Arena Consultants (2005). B.Arch from L.S. Raheja, MSc from London South Bank University with best-performance recognition, LEED Green Associate, and Harvard executive education. With more than three decades of industry experience, she has designed the environments where India's science gets done, and she now helps shape the global standards for how it should be done.
"At the intersection of innovation and responsibility, we design spaces that are not only aesthetically profound but also fundamentally sustainable."
- ISO/TC 336, Laboratory Design. Roles across the General Principles, Mobile Laboratory and Smart Laboratory sub-committees of the ISO technical committee on laboratory design.
- Bureau of Indian Standards. Member, Chemical Hazards Sectional Committee.
- LEED Green Associate. Green building and sustainable design credentials applied on live projects through IGBC and LEED pathways. See our green building certification service.
- Design-only, vendor-neutral. Arena sells no furniture, no fume hoods and no contracting. Our only product is independent design judgement.
The team
The people on your project
Ar. Mohita Chonkar
Lead Architecture and Interior Design
Sr. Interior Designer. Priyanka Surve
Lab Design Specialist
Ar. Shraddha Sawant
Client Solutions Consultant
Behind her is a team of architects, engineers and designers spanning architecture, MEP engineering, project coordination and regulatory standards, working as one design intelligence across every project. See the standards this expertise is applied to on our Standards & Compliance page.