Shree: Home

 

Shree: Home

What is comfort? It is a sense of being. This sense is linked with various factors of vibrations and forces and forms and is also informed by the built environment, how we meet, what we do (learn) and what we feel within the built environment. Hence comfort is a mood. Comfort is not material although material may be an approach to take one to the experience of being comfortable. Architecturally then, the ideas of scale and proportions, movements, geometry, senses generate an experience of a mood where architecture may take a backseat but the experience maybe profound.

What can such architecture be like? Probably imbued with a lot of shade, cover, transitions, people, loitering, easy to explore, pausing at places, focusing, being in one’s space and being together, interacting, having a favorable breeze, rough textures, somber colours, natural materials, silent light, mesmerizing evening light, moon and the stars, the morning dew, birds….

One is being made naturally and subtly aware of such experiences, perhaps unknowingly, at times consciously, at times accidently.

Perhaps this is the kind of architecture to reckon – the kind which brings one ‘home’ again.

Hari Om.