Studio Mumbai: Work-Place Exhibition, Lausanne 2011 [1]
“(…)
Windows are almost unnecessary in the Indian climate. Studio Mumbai buildings
and rooms are more often enclosed by shutter screens allowing the passage of
air and, like Japanese paper screens, a variety of relationships between inside
and outside. The agents of movement, crafted
bronze rollers, hinges and clasps
are Studio Mumbai products, they transform the house into a responsive and
adaptive machine
where entire walls fold together like the pages of a book.
When windows do appear, their horizontal format recalls the Eames House or
other high points of modernism in India (including Pierre Jeanneret's
experiments with domestic cross ventilation in Chandigarh). The beautiful and
ingenious opening mechanism and hand-carved grips operating the horizontal
windows between bedrooms and veranda in the Utsav House, for
example, are close
relatives to the pivoting horizontal louvres that cover the three-floor facade
of the 1935-1942 Golconde Dormitory at the Aurobindo Ashram
in Pondicherry by
Antonin Raymond (…)”[2].
Peter Wilson
Studio Mumbai: Utsav House, Satirje, Maharashtra, India 2008 [3]
[1] STUDIO MUMBAI: Work-Place Exhibition, Lausanne 2011 in MARCOS, Fernando, LEVENE, Richard (ed.), Studio Mumbai 2003-2011. Ways of doing and making, El Croquis nº 157, 2011, Pg.45
[2] WILSON, Peter: “Studio Mumbai. Ways of doing and making” in MARCOS, Fernando, LEVENE, Richard (ed.), Studio Mumbai 2003-2011. Ways of doing and making, El Croquis nº 157, 2011, Pg.45
[3] STUDIO MUMBAI: Utsav House: http://www.studiomumbai.com
>>>>> Public Lecture by Architect, Bijoy Jain – founder of Studio Mumbai.
'Ways of Doing and Making'
Tuesday, 30th of October at 13.00 in the Auditorium, Nørreport 20, AAA.
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