2024

Architecture of Liminality

~ Neelkanth Chhaya Transcription of Prof.Chhays’s talk in SNS 16.0: Exploring Gandhi’s Places, hosted by Ethos Foundation The essay is about what I call the architecture of liminality. Now that’s a difficult word. So I’ll just go into it a little bit. Liminality is the state of in-between neither inside nor outside, neither belonging to

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Ne Neo Nakru

Could there have been someone who lived like her ? Everagain ? Probably not. A human of such resilience, radiating happiness, imbibing all beings for what they are with her divine smile. Amongst the multiple personality that she literally was, she was a prolific writer. ‘Diary of Little Woman’ was published in The Hindu and

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A process of conserving

Rajagopuram of Sri Seetha Ramachandra Swamy Temple, Ammapalli Dedicated to the hands which lay the invisible foundation stones of the Gopurams. “Ikkada shooting cheste, cinema super hit-aee..!!” A Telugu dialogue loosely translates to “If we film here, our cinema will definitely be a great success”.  A locally known, desolate place with minimal to no visitors; served

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Sree Nivasam

“Wow! Is this how I designed it?” said the photographer without blinking his widely open eyes. It was him who had conceptualised the long window during his architectural internship.A large-small home. ‘I wore a yellow dress to match the floor colour !” said the client, as she walked out of the bedroom; we found her

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ARK Fitness Studio

The ARK Fitness Studio is designed to club wellness with pleasure. Planned within concrete walls with a single glass frontage on the upper floors, the space calls out through its modern and minimalist design elements. The design intended to create an environment to motivate individuals to work on themselves and provide a support infrastructure to

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Meel | CEPT | Premiere

A girl studying in a government school in rural Tamil Nadu died a sudden death without any known cause. During the postmortem, they found tiny deposits of fecal matter in between her tissue particles and in her blood. She would delay answering nature’s call as both her house and the school she studied in, didn’t’t

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