Kanav Aggarwal

AR2065

This project follows the seasonal rhythm of the Maldhari community in Gir, a semi nomadic tribe, three months of stillness during the monsoon, and nine months of movement through forests and farmlands. It is an attempt to understand how dwelling happens in motion, how the built grows out of the land, and how animals, people, and objects move together as a family. The shelters are not fixed—they rise, shift, and dissolve depending on the place, the season, the light. A steel post, a curved roof, a khatla—each carries the memory of stillness and the possibility of moving again. The cattle rest in stables where mud meets metal, the camels carry the home in parts. Boundaries are loose—defined more by shade and shadow than by walls. The project doesn’t try to design for them, but rather to dwell with them—to observe how time stretches, how space folds, and how a life in motion quietly builds its own ground.