Artrovert is built as a house for an artist in Kaladham (Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh). It is envisioned not as an extroverted studio, where the creation of art and the living of the artist are shared with her precinct. Acutely aware of Kaladham’s location at the urban edge, she hopes such an outward expression and blurring of territory would lay the seeds for spatial “conversations” with a growing community. Spaces are created as unravelling rather than as a construction, revealing as much as concealing. Two materially contrasting yet filial bands loop and coil forming various spaces at multiple levels. These are book-ended by an armature that works as gallery, working scaffolding and circulation space providing vantages, both inside and out, from different heights. Artrovert hopes to offer multiple views of multiple spaces and changing perspectives of changing times.
ANAGRAM ARCHITECTS
Team: Vaibhav Dimri, Madhav Raman
Anagram Architects was established by Vaibhav Dimri and Madhav Raman in New Delhi in 2001. The partners have graduated from the School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi. The firm’s practice is diverse and encompasses public infrastructure planning, urban design, architecture, furniture design and interior design. Through their work they attempt to enrich elemental modernity with intensive research into traditional as well as non-conventional practices, evolving culturally relevant, contextually responsive and resource efficient designs. Over the years the practice has garnered much critical acclaim including a nomination for the Aga Khan Award in 2010 and inclusion in the Wallpaper Magazine’s “Architects Directory 2009”. For four years running (2014-17), they have been included in AD50, the Architectural Digest Magazine’s prestigious list of the 50 most influential South Asian designers. Its work has been premiered at the Architectural Review’s World Emerging Architecture Awards 2007, the Cityscape Architectural Awards 2008, 2010 & 2016, the Wienerberger Brick Awards 2010, the SAIE Bologna 2010, 2011 and 2012, the Holcim Award for Sustainable Construction 2011, Asia Pacific Design Awards 2012 and the International Design and Architecture Awards 2013. Anagram Architects has also featured in the International Architecture Biennale 2010 in Rotterdam and Biennial of Design (BIO23) 2012 held in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
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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.