Aarjav Sharma

AR2061

Tamojyoti: Confluence of Dark and Light

The Kailash Temple carries a fascinating narrative of traveling through space before settling in Ellora. We are envisioning a scenario where the temple has once again taken flight and now a memorial celebrating the sacredness of the lost monument is to be created. The program aims to make students think in sections while introducing them to an architectural position on “Contextualism”. In the context of historic monuments, the design approach can be framed by three concepts: Reciprocal, Indifference, and Conflict. And students are expected to take their own stand for which they have developed 5 models of each on 1:500 scale, and after reviews they arrived on a theory that they felt is more relevant to them for the context. However few anchor points like keeping the Garbhagriha with shiv linga at the same place and the mountain on three sides to be left untouched is kept as a challenge. While the rest can be decided by students as per design approach.


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The folly project worked as a breaking in exercise to unlearn the general instinct if designing sections by simple vertical extrusion of the plan.

The documentation of these built projects helped us understand section, scale and volumes as tools to address functions.

The documentation of the site for the project. The scale of this project broke all notion of generalised urban volumes freeing our minds to think beyond the human scale.

The plan to section exercise put our learnings into a design where the plan of the project was given to us off of which had to design the sections.

The final project that put all our semester long learnings to use at the site of the kailash temple.