City X Weida Name Ruan Supervisor: Supervisor: Prof. Tom Kovac
A Kovil (Temple) wall is the expression of the city imprinted on an irreplaceable object. What if these expressions are in the form of a wall? The Project gets anchored to this threshold condition that opens up the irreplaceable object that is bound to the city that is simultaneous and ever-changing in nature. The city of Chennai becomes the place of observation and the Object corresponds to the Shrine wall. Moreover, the architectural expression seeks to unravel the city and its nature on this shrine wall. The rich red and white wall starts to take up agency of the street and starts to amalgamate with the city front of George Town; Chennai’s political centre. There is a dialogue between the shrine, which is an irreplaceable and explicit object, with the city, which is generic but holds interesting layers of social and cultural affinities. This dialogue is the essence that the thickness of the wall seeks to grasp and affiliates itself. The architecture is expressed as the vision of the city which brings in boundless gestures through red and white temple walls.