What Studio SSA does

Studio SSA is an Ahmedabad-based spatial design practice founded by Architect Samir Shah in 2021 following his 35-year partnership at KSA Design Planning Services P. Ltd. The firm offers architectural design, urban design, interior and furniture design, and project planning and development services, with concentrated expertise in healthcare facility design, educational institution campuses, residential townships, and post-disaster rehabilitation. Its portfolio spans institutional buildings (colleges, hospitals, temples), residential complexes and golf townships (notably the 900-acre Kensville development), and specialized healthcare facilities including multispecialty hospitals and oncology centers for clients such as MPUH, VIMS, Shalby, HCG, and Krishnadevaraya College of Dental Sciences. The firm also carries historical international credentials in post-disaster reconstruction across Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Afghanistan via partnerships with GTZ Frankfurt, KfW Frankfurt, and BGS Frankfurt.

The practice operates with a lean team of approximately 10 staff including architects, interior architects, a landscape architect, design detailers, and intern architects, supported by the founder's concurrent academic role as Dean of CFP at CEPT University. Studio SSA pursues clients through direct enterprise engagement, design competitions, and referrals rather than marketing-driven channels, and its distribution is concentrated in Gujarat and select Indian states plus prior international development-sector projects.

The business model is professional-services and project-based: revenue is generated from design fees structured around individual project scope, scale, and complexity, with quote-based pricing (no standard tiers publicly disclosed). Customers are exclusively enterprise and institutional — hospital networks, universities, school chains, and large real-estate developers — and the firm does not operate a recurring-revenue or SaaS component. No external funding, parent company, or institutional ownership is evidenced; the practice appears founder-owned and operated.

Name

Studio SSA

Legal name

Studio SSA

Website

https://studiossa.in

Company type

Private

Founded year

2021

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Studio SSA is an Ahmedabad-based spatial design practice founded in 2021 by Architect Samir Shah, delivering architectural, urban, interior, and project planning services to healthcare institutions, educational campuses, residential townships, and post-disaster reconstruction clients across India.

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Headquarters

HQ city

Ahmedabad

HQ country

India

HQ region

Asia

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

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Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Architectural Design Services: Studio SSA generates revenue through comprehensive architectural design services for institutional, healthcare, residential, and recreational projects. Revenue is project-based, with fees structured around project scope, complexity, and scale. The firm also provides urban design, interior design, and project planning services as part of its design practice.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Studio SSA is an architectural and spatial design practice offering architectural design, urban design, interior design, and project planning services. It focuses on healthcare, institutional, and residential projects and applies a "system mapping methodology" to solve complex, multi-program briefs where multiple functions, stakeholders, and operational flows must be coordinated within a single built environment.

Product overview

Studio SSA is a spatial design practice offering architectural design, urban design, interior and furniture design, and project planning and development services. The firm specializes in creating built environments across diverse programs including urban development, housing, healthcare institutions, post-disaster rehabilitation, residential, and recreational projects. Their portfolio encompasses institutional buildings (colleges, hospitals, temples), residential complexes and townships, and specialized healthcare facilities.

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Products and services

• Architectural Design Full architectural design services for healthcare, institutional, and residential projects, delivered through a system mapping methodology that coordinates multiple programs, stakeholders, and operational flows within a single built environment.
• Urban Design Urban design services for clients working on complex, multi-program developments, integrated with the firm's broader architectural and planning practice.
• Interior Design Interior design services aligned with the firm's architectural and planning work, intended for healthcare, institutional, and residential clients.
• Project Planning Project planning services covering programming, phasing, and coordination of complex multi-program briefs across healthcare, institutional, and residential projects.

Named customers11 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

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Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered major and core.

• GTZ Frankfurt (German Society for Technical Cooperation)majorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 1999Collaborated with GTZ Frankfurt on post-disaster rehabilitation projects including the 1999 Super cyclone in Orissa and 2001 Gujarat earthquake reconstruction.
• BGS FrankfurtmajorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 1999Collaborated with BGS Frankfurt on post-disaster rehabilitation projects including tsunami reconstruction in Sri Lanka (2004).
• CEPT UniversitycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerFounder Samir Shah joined CEPT University as visiting faculty in 2017 and became Dean of CFP. He developed a new pedagogical approach for the foundation program and led faculty training, capacity building, and mentorship programs with partner institutes.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Rahul Mehrotra Associates: Mumbai-based Indian architecture practice with a teaching and research orientation (MIT) and strong institutional and urban portfolio. Comparable in scale, ethos and project typologies (institutional campuses, public-interest work) to Studio SSA.
• KSA Design Planning Services: Indian architectural firm co-founded by Samir Shah in 1986 that he led until 2021. Same founder DNA, same Indian healthcare/institutional focus and the same post-disaster reconstruction track record, making it the closest natural peer and predecessor.
• CannonDesign: North American architecture and engineering firm with a strong healthcare and institutional practice. Comparable as a peer firm competing for complex hospital and academic medical center commissions of the same typology as Studio SSA's healthcare work.
• Charles Correa Associates: Legendary Indian architecture practice known for institutional, housing and urban projects. Comparable as a similarly founder-driven Indian architecture brand working across institutional typologies that overlap with Studio SSA's portfolio.
• HKS, Inc. Global architecture firm widely regarded as a leader in healthcare facility design. Directly comparable because Studio SSA's core niche — multispecialty hospital campus design — overlaps with HKS's flagship healthcare practice.
• Sanjay Puri Architects: Award-winning Indian architecture firm with a strong institutional and hospitality portfolio. Comparable as a similarly founder-led Indian design practice competing for marquee commissions in the same institutional typologies.
• SJK Architects: Mumbai-based Indian architecture and interior design practice working across residential, institutional and commercial projects. Comparable as a similarly sized, similarly positioned Indian architecture firm competing for institutional and developer commissions.

Broad incumbents

• HDR Architecture: Global design and engineering firm with a substantial healthcare architecture practice. Comparable as a broad incumbent in healthcare facility design where Studio SSA competes, though HDR also delivers engineering and program management at scale.
• AECOM: Global infrastructure and design firm offering architecture services including healthcare and institutional projects. Comparable as a broad incumbent that competes for the same hospital, campus and developer-led commissions, though typically at much larger scale.
• Perkins&Will: Large global architecture practice with one of the world's most recognized healthcare design groups. Comparable as a broad incumbent whose healthcare and institutional practice overlaps directly with Studio SSA's core niche, but at vastly greater scale.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Profiles1 record

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Investments

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