I had learnt in one Gyorgy Kepes’ seminars: the notion of the museum as an endless succession of rooms, however brilliantly designed, leads to exhaustion. What we need are places where the eye can rest, and the mind can contemplate what it had just seen. (Charles Correa, Zero, 1998)
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‘Five Gardens’ emerges from studies of several house plans. Material here is explored for both structure and detail. The pavilion / house reveals itself to the surrounding landscape, flora and fauna in novel assemblies. The project intimately plays with economy of material, pleasure of craft and lightness of structure. While the pavilion seamlessly connects the outside with the inside, it lends itself to create personalised spaces within itself.
Behold! Here are new trees, new leaves, new branches, new flowers, new beautiful parrots sit on them. New bees are humming and birds are singing their tunes. There are new peacocks, parrots, chakoras. New koel is cooing and producing new notes. Sawai Jaisaha Maharaj Mukatmani has his Jainivas Garden with perennial spring reining therein. There are many temples here… There are wells step-wells in gardens, The Manasagar is overflowing and the river is flowing swiftly. (from a poem by Girdhari – Bhojanasara (1739) translated by PK Gode, 1946)
Five Gardens SAMIR RAUT Team: Vinit Dharia, Milind Mahale, Varun Mehta, Dhruv Chavan, Deepshikha Jaiswal