Shree

 

Shree

spaces may be seen from gendered perspective - or from a human perspective. why are certain scales and proportions preferred and what do they generate within us? fundamentally it is about connections. connections of landscape, human beings, life forms, seasons and so on. this connection happens in solitary moments or during discussions or casual encounters. and the connection says something about the nature of existence. this therefore talks about community, beliefs, heritage, history, present, tendencies, imaginations, relationships and so on. it is with this deep felt need of connecting that spaces ought to be seen and designed. seen is in becoming and when one sees or moves through space, one endorses a state of existence. and hence that light or window or wall or material or planes or alignment or movement or a sequence or that tree or that wind and so on. therefore there is a need of a boundary ; of interactions; of privacy; of connect; of guidance; of movement; of freedom. notice that all deep feelings are one and the same and when one feels anchor, one is also feeling movement and freedom. when one sits, one also imagines movement and when one moves, one also becomes still. a purest experience probably is that where the awareness of motion or manifestation is 'lost' and what one experiences is only a blissful state of Existence.

current times are difficult - in that the bliss is not even felt inside! since bliss is not felt inside, how should an activity therefore be conceived as a sequence or as a form or as an intensity or as a frequency? should the issue be discussed or debated or should it only be observed in silence? how can all experiences be accepted and an expression be found in them? how can pain or fear and love also find a place to express and lead to some form? how can these feelings be used to connect one another? is it proper to produce and to go head on for an assignment or should we approach the assignment in implicit ways in doing many non architectural things and finally conceiving architectural solutions? these questions require to be addressed for academic environment to blossom and rehabilitate from the dragged stresses of Covid times.

Hari Om.