Work-Place

Shown at the international architecture exhibition in 2010, where it received a special mention, this installation brings the working environment of the Indian practice into a long brick hall.

For the design team, the immediate environment is a space we create and inhabit almost without noticing. It can be made very familiar, or it can expose us to unfamiliar elements that provoke a response and a reevaluation. Before settling on fixed ideas of what architecture should be, the aim is to understand why things are the way they are.

The installation presents an iterative process in which ideas are explored through large-scale mock-ups, material studies, sketches and drawings. Projects develop through careful attention to place and a practice that draws on traditional skills, local building techniques, materials and an ingenuity born of limited resources. These studies, inspired by observation of real conditions, sit between idea and reality, and allow each project to respond and adapt freely through making.