Amdavad Ni Gufa

This underground gallery was designed to show the collaboration between an artist and an architect. It houses the work of the painter Maqbool Fida Husain, and grew out of a conversation the two had some thirty years earlier about responding to climate and the benefits of spaces set into the ground.

Above ground, a cluster of domes rises from the garden like a group of mounds, their surfaces covered in white broken ceramic. Below, the gallery is a cave of curving walls and tree-like columns, painted by the artist and lit by round skylights cut into the shells.

Through the landscape and the entrance, the architect ties the building to the wider world around it.