MDes Interior Design School of Design
Siddharth Bagga
My design interests centre on the layered nature of interiors, the traces materials carry, and the ways spaces evolve through human and environmental interaction. I enjoy working across scales — from furniture and exhibitions to architecture and speculative installations — using both analogue and digital methods to test ideas through models, drawings, and immersive storytelling.
I believe design is most powerful when it reveals hidden narratives and creates spaces that feel alive, shifting, and responsive to their contexts.
Prior to studying for a Masters in Interior Design at the Glasgow School of Art, I trained as an architect in India and worked on projects including community settlements in Tripura, houses in Alibaug, a resort in Bali, and restaurants and exhibitions in Mumbai. These experiences have given me an approach that balances craft, research, and collaboration, while continually exploring new ways of reimagining the interior.
Aperture
Aperture is a speculative design investigation that reimagines a decommissioned industrial chimney as an ecological infrastructure. Challenging anthropocentric notions of utility and waste, the project reframes the chimney not as a relic, but as an active participant in its environment. Drawing on ecological masonry techniques and informed by precedents such as the GreenQuays project in Breda, the interior is retrofitted with bioreceptive pointing mortars – engineered to host flora, retain moisture, and encourage micro-ecologies.
Aperture - A kind reconsideration
