Material to a building is like the bones, flesh and skin of our body. Form, function, structure, are inseperable. Any aesthetic must be true to the nature of the material and must derive directly from the nature of the material which makes the building. There can be no masks.
- The RCC work shall be exposed. - The concrete shall have a yellowish hue to match the colour of the soil in the site - The concrete shall be cast with shuttering from the planks of palm trees such that they imbibe in them the imprints of the pal tree - the natives of the site. - The granite that shall be used shall be from the surrounding regions which were used to build the temples around that region. This granite with aging of time will also match the colour of the soil. - All internal spaces shall be plastered thus differentiating the interior and the exterior. The exterior belongs to the landscape and the interiors are different ‘worlds’. - All services-electrical, air-conditioning etc. to be accomodated within the cavity in the wall.
RCC beam Internal brick wall Internal brick wall
Granite dry cladding Granite dry cladding (in elevation)
Exposed RCC parapet
Internal RCC columns Granite dry cladding Air cavity
RCC Floor slab flooring - granite
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Acoustic panel lining on the interior
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