3.1.2 Case Study 2, The Lotus Temple in New Delhi, India The second case study is a temple that was built in New Delhi in India. The name of the building is “The Lotus Temple” (Figure 23). The Iranian architect FariborzSahba designed it. The Universal House of Justice, the international governing body of the Baha’is, organized the competition. The project started in 1976 and it was finished in 1986 (Rizor, 2011). The form of the building is inspired by the lotus flower (Figure 25). This building was chosen as a case study because it will help the reader to understand the reasons that a flower could be an idea for a building. Relying on the architect’s statements an analysis of the reasons that he used nature as an inspiration is followed Gonzales, Zy., (2012).
Figure 23: Exterior view of lotus temple, (homedit, 2011)
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