By Beverly Pereira
Photography: Sameer Tawde
A
miniature concrete model by Material Immaterial Studio builds on the idea of
space as an inherently formless vapour that constantly surrounds our being...
“Ideas
choose materials,” opine Architects Nitin Barchha and Disney Davis of Mumbai-based
Material Immaterial studio, who have conceived a table-top miniature set of
nine concrete buildings, aptly christened SPACES.
Based
on the premise that staring at the miniature architectural form, may evoke
people’s imaginations, when they take a breather at their home or office desks,
the architects play on the psyche of visual imagery and consequent flights of
fancy that can serve to unleash a variety of emotions. From being
inspirational, and unleashing a sudden spurt of creativity; stress -busters
thru’ sheer preoccupation; or even adding a quirky spark to a drab routine, one
can opt for more than a single block to
play with their desired configuration.
The
individual blocks, when linked together around a central ‘kund’, form a
community-like space that might take the viewer on a journey into the unseen
and the imaginary. Sparing no detail, the blocks feature such elements as
stairs, passageways and window-like openings. When locked into one another, each
piece flows into the next, making for a fluid composition.
Playing
with volumes and voids, the architects experimented with poured concrete over a
period of six months, comprehending proportion, form and the configurational
ultimate to arrive at the final model of nine spaces, where each block is
detail-complete, both individually as well as in its various compositions with one
or more other blocks.
Such
architectural masterpieces as Le-Corbusier’s Villa Savoye, Frank Lloyd Wright’s
Falling Water, and Tadao Ando’s Church of Light served as inspiration; the
major challenge being the scaling down of architectural details to perfect elevations.
SPACES
is available for sale at The Kulture Shop, Mumbai, and at The Tadpole Store
online.
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