An underground art gallery exhibiting paintings and sculptures of noted artist M.F. Hussain, located on the campus of the Centre for Environmental Planning & Technology in Ahmedabad.

The form of roof shells is guided by computer designs and the structure, built in ferrocement, is in the form of skeletal skin and wire mesh, sandwiched on each side by layers of cement.

... and then this is like actually the real Varaha avatar. Varaha avatar is the one where Vishnu goes down to find the rakshasa because Indira’s wife was taken by him. So I remembered that ... 1

  • 1. Doshi, interviewed by Ramachandran

Underground, dimly lit, and unfathomable space is what gufa (literally, "cave") means. Its fluid space, which has now become a natural girbhagriha, or "golden womb," is where one is able to discover previous births and reincarnations. Such unexpected experiences make one ask: Who am I? Where do I come from? What time is it? How much and whose time do we have? Yet these questions become irrelevant as one delves deeper, as in a yogic trance. In the gufa, the past, present, and future are fused into a seamless continuum. There is no beginning and no end: in that space, time stands still.1

Wall Section (top) and Detail Section (bottom)
Wall Section (top) and Detail Section (bottom) © Vastu Shilpa Foundation

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Doshi, Balkrishna V.. Chester Herwitz Art Gallery. Ahmedabad: Vastu Shilpa Consultants, 1995.
Doshi, Balkrishna V., and Maqbool Fida Husain. Doorway In Amdavad ni Gufa. Ahmedabad: Vastu Shilpa Consultants, 1995.

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