Karankumar Vijaykumar Rajpurohit

LA4017

Sacred Contrasts reimagines the Modhera Sun Temple precinct as a landscape of dualities—light and shade, built and unbuilt, sacred and everyday. The design draws from the temple’s inherent dialogue between solid structures and the void of the kund, extending that contrast through spatial sequences, planting strategies, and materiality. Using native arid flora, sculpted enclosures, and mythologically significant trees like Ficus religiosa and Bael, the site becomes a pilgrimage of pause, ritual, and reveal. Visitors experience shifts in scale, texture, and meaning, reconnecting with Modhera not as a monument alone, but as a living, breathing sacred terrain.