Nav/laya is a juxtaposition of the works of Abin Design Studio with the Navagraha mandala - origin of Jaipur’s city plan and basis for Correa’s Jawahar Kala Kendra. While ‘nav’ represents the absolute (nine), ‘laya’ is both dissolution and merging, morphing in its meaning with context. The installation is aligned with the twist that Correa uses to mimic the deviation in Jaipur’s plan. In the pavilion, people inhabit the space in-between the stable grid of pathways and the transforming canopies.
ABIN DESIGN STUDIO
Team: Abin Chaudhuri, Sonia Guha, Tilak Ajmera, Abhinaw Alok, Jibendra Basak, Toton Mondal, Debkishor Das, Shubham Gaikwad with Debatosh Kar (Sculptor) and Prabhoo Suthar (Site Execution)
Abin Design Studio (ADS) began in 2005 under the leadership of architect, designer and entrepreneur Abin Chaudhuri. He graduated from Jadavpur University, Kolkata in 1998. Having worked as the Creative Head for Lafarge and later as the Director for Adler & Associates, Abin went on to pursue Industrial Design at Domus Academy, Milan in 2005. ADS believes architecture is an artistic expression as far as it transcends its purely utilitarian, technical and rational realm and turns into a metaphoric expression of the lived world, human condition and context. Over the last decade, ADS has successfully completed several prestigious projects in the realms of architecture including landscaping, interior design and installations for Institutional, corporate, residential developments, hotels, villas and public spaces.
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- When is Space? In An Exhibition on Contemporary Architecture Commissioned by Jawahar Kala Kendra, Edited by Rupali Gupte and Prasad Shetty. Jaipur: Jawahar Kala Kendra, 2018.