Who We Are
Established in 1994, ZHCollective | Habitat Architects is a multidisciplinary architecture and design practice working across private residential, hospitality, commercial and civic architecture, interior design, urban design and master planning.
Across more than three decades, the practice has completed multiple projects spanning more than 100 million sq ft of designed environments.
Our architecture begins with the specific conditions of each project — site, climate, context, programme, culture, material, construction and the people who will inhabit it. Rather than work towards a predetermined style, these conditions inform decisions of proportion, movement, light, landscape, material and form.
What changes from project to project is the architectural response. What remains consistent is the judgment behind it.
A ZHCollective | Habitat Architects perspective on computational design, AI-assisted workflows and the evolving role of technology in architectural practice.
Architecture begins with judgment.
We do not start with a predetermined style. We begin by understanding what is already there — land, climate, programme, culture, material, construction and the lives a building must accommodate.
Every project therefore asks for a different architectural response. Proportion, movement, light, landscape and material are not applied as a language; they emerge from the particular conditions of the work.
For us, enduring architecture is not defined by novelty. It is defined by the clarity of its decisions, the intelligence of its making and how well it continues to serve people over time.
MANIFESTO
Collaboration is Our Foundation
Architecture is collaborative by nature. Every project brings together clients, architects, designers, consultants, craftspeople, contractors and site teams around a common ambition.
Our role is to make that collaboration productive without losing clarity of intent — listening carefully, testing ideas, resolving competing demands and carrying the architectural idea through from conception to construction.
The strongest projects are built through dialogue, but also through the judgment to know what must be protected.
SERVICES
Architecture
ZHCollective | Habitat Architects works across private residential, hospitality, commercial and civic architecture. Each project is developed from its particular site, programme, climate and context, with structure, landscape, movement and material considered as part of one architectural system.
Interior Design
Our interiors are conceived in direct relationship with architecture. Spatial planning, material, light, furniture, art and detail are brought together around how a place will actually be inhabited — across residential, hospitality and commercial environments.
Urban Design + Planning
At the larger scale, we work across urban design, master planning and mixed-use developments. Built form, density, landscape, infrastructure, movement and public realm are considered together to create coherent environments capable of evolving over time.
PEOPLE
CORE
Zafar Choudhary
Across more than three decades of practice, he has led projects spanning private residences, hospitality, commercial architecture and large-scale developments. His approach combines an understanding of construction, material and detail with the belief that architecture must respond specifically to its site, programme and the lives it is designed to hold.
Monika Choudhary
As Principal Designer, her perspective connects architecture and interiors with material intelligence, wellbeing, behaviour, craft and the experience of inhabitation. Alongside her role in design, she has shaped the development of the practice across disciplines, generations and markets, building its wider relationships and design discourse while keeping human experience central to its evolution.
Sahir Choudhary
A Cornell University graduate, his approach combines architectural thinking with computational design, emerging technologies and the planning of increasingly complex buildings and developments. His work examines how programme, density, infrastructure, movement and environmental performance can be resolved while retaining architectural clarity and human scale.
Sarah Choudhary
Trained across architecture and interior design, with education and professional exposure in London and New York, her work moves between the scale of architecture and the intimacy of inhabitation. She is particularly interested in hospitality as an experience shaped through spatial sequence, material, light, furniture, art and detail — creating interiors with a distinct identity while remaining closely connected to their architecture, context and use.
