Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Rahul Mehrotra Associates
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Rahul Mehrotra maintains a diverse and active role as an architect, urban activist, writer and teacher. His book Bombay: The Cities Within (1995), with Sharada Dwivedi, is a major enquiry into the history and sociology of India's vivacious and contentious urbanism. He finds his city of practice ‐ Mumbai ‐ a mine for quarrying architectural ideations and languages. Unlike most regions in India that may have to adhere to a conformist cultural agenda, Mumbai offers a conceptual freedom in traversing the traditional and contemporary as the city has its particular plurality in the intertwining epochs, attitudes and ‘coming together and moving apart of the past and present’. Multiplicity is thus axiomatic in Mehrotra's interpretation of the city, although this is transferred in his architecture as a dialogical juxtaposition of public and private, exteriority and interiority, natural and industrial materials, and the traditional and contemporary.
Interiority, arising both from reasons of climate and urban conditions, is an abiding theme in Mehrotra's work and is articulated through reified courtyards and walls that also retain an intimate conversation with the larger landscape. From residences to large complexes, he uses these elements with great craft and finesse to create dramatic spaces with changing palettes of materials, colours and phenomenally modulated differences between the exterior and interior.‘In our projects, the approach has been to abstract and interpret spatial arrangements as well as building vocabulary,’ he says. ‘The idea is to combine materials, to juxtapose conventional craftsmanship with industrial materials and traditional spatial arrangements with contemporary space organisation. In short, to give expression to the multiple worlds, pluralism and dualities that so vividly characterise the Asian landscape.’ Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Rahul Mehrotra Associates
10.1002/ad.555.abs
Rahul Mehrotra maintains a diverse and active role as an architect, urban activist, writer and teacher. His book Bombay: The Cities Within (1995), with Sharada Dwivedi, is a major enquiry into the history and sociology of India's vivacious and contentious urbanism. He finds his city of practice ‐ Mumbai ‐ a mine for quarrying architectural ideations and languages. Unlike most regions in India that may have to adhere to a conformist cultural agenda, Mumbai offers a conceptual freedom in traversing the traditional and contemporary as the city has its particular plurality in the intertwining epochs, attitudes and ‘coming together and moving apart of the past and present’. Multiplicity is thus axiomatic in Mehrotra's interpretation of the city, although this is transferred in his architecture as a dialogical juxtaposition of public and private, exteriority and interiority, natural and industrial materials, and the traditional and contemporary.
Interiority, arising both from reasons of climate and urban conditions, is an abiding theme in Mehrotra's work and is articulated through reified courtyards and walls that also retain an intimate conversation with the larger landscape. From residences to large complexes, he uses these elements with great craft and finesse to create dramatic spaces with changing palettes of materials, colours and phenomenally modulated differences between the exterior and interior.‘In our projects, the approach has been to abstract and interpret spatial arrangements as well as building vocabulary,’ he says. ‘The idea is to combine materials, to juxtapose conventional craftsmanship with industrial materials and traditional spatial arrangements with contemporary space organisation. In short, to give expression to the multiple worlds, pluralism and dualities that so vividly characterise the Asian landscape.’ Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Rahul Mehrotra Associates
Architectural Design ; 77 ; 42-45
01.11.2007
4 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
wind towers , garden , Darbar Hall , a palette of finishes , amphitheatre , Rural Campus for Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Tuljapur, Maharastra, 2004 , lotus pond , Social forestry , Khilwat , Nizam Salabat Jung , restored to create museums , Yogesh Rawal , plastered surfaces , spaces for craftspeople to work in , museum of costumes and artefacts , traditional craftspeople and techniques , Corner Plot House, Chennai, 2003‐ , House on an Orchard, hear Ahemdabad, 2004 , humidification of air , reinforced‐cement concrete slab , buildings clustered around courtyards , meditation space , rich palette of materials , water in the courtyard , Porbunder sandstone , Laxmi Machine Works (LMW) corporate office, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, 1998l , weekend retreat , courtyard , public and private face to the house , scrap metal , zoning of the site , House for a Film Maker, Alibag, Near Mumbai, 2001 , Restoration of Chowmahalla Palace, Hyderabad, 2002‐ , teak trees , four palaces , transparent , a pool that penetrates through the house , local stone , ow‐rise building with a large footprint, constructed around three courtyards , ferrocement vault , terrace is a landscape feature , Rajeev Sethi , village of Kihim , screens and trellises , two clear parts , Cross‐ventilation , Small courtyards , health and infrastructure , light metal‐clad roof
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