Breathing Skin | ਸਾਹ ਲੈਣ ਵਾਲੀ ਚਮੜੀ
Nanded, India \ ਨਾਂਦੇੜ, ਭਾਰਤ
2021
Client: Joshi House
Collaborators/ Team: Ravi Jangid, Studio Seek
Location: Nanded, India
Status: Built
Tags: poetic computation, sculpture, building facade, structural innovation
Executed during the lockdown period of the COVID-19 pandemic, this project deconstructs the layered relations of atom - object - building - city - geography. How does computational data become an 'inter-scalar' currency which shapes and mobilises infrastructure, across complex networks?
How is the motion of a holy river translated to infrastructure?
By the waters of the Godavari, the medieval town of Nanded houses 12 Gurudwaras, becoming one of the significant pilgrimage spots of the Sikh outside of Amritsar in Punjab.
For this project, we drew inspiration from the sacred Godavari to design a sculptural facade. As one approaches the House, the facade remains furtively invisible, blending into the neighbourhood's fabric. Only in the last moment, it reveals itself as a spectacular backdrop, up-close and on the inside.
Expressed in neat lines, it behaves as a flowing landscape flipped vertically, to direct the vision to an open sky.
Relational Networks: From the geographic to the atomic, materializing the 'ebb and flow of bits', the most granular units of data
