Rajpara Khyati Dharmendra

AR2020

The AWC seeks to create interaction between communities, NGOs, government agencies and the private sector to launch a multi-faceted effort to recognize the value of the traditional water systems. Inserting itself within the existing disparate communities of the town, at the threshold between the forest and the city, along the traditional water system, the Collaborative offers spaces to the people to conduct their everyday lives within its premises as a means to generate a dialogue. The Collaborative intends to connect with its immediate community of lawyers to inform policy, the purohits to enable traditional systems of water governance and local businesses to innovate in revenue models for the regular administration of the premises.I look at this place as two distinct features, the city of Alwar and the forest of the Aravalli ranges. The entire city of Alwar seems to be embraced by the Aravalli ranges. At the end of the city and the beginning of the forest where the city and the forest combine, there is a band formed which is different from the city. This is the threshold between the city and the forest. The threshold band has houses that have an irregular edge towards the Aravalli ranges which is different from the grid organization of the city. 
The project becomes a threshold between the city and the forest, the high and the flat, the two kunds from where the water flows, the royal archaeological palace, and the crude water canal.
It is also becoming a threshold between the ground and the sky. The columns become slender from thick as they reach the vast sky from the heavy ground. That is how it merges from the ground to the sky.