Anagram Architects and contemporary artist Anita Dube came together to create ‘Artrovert’, a multi-levelled gathering ground for artists and the artisticallyinclined. With its swivelling façade panels and spacious insides, the studio eschews rigid boundaries between what is inside and what is outside.

Art used to be a lonely pursuit. But creative expression has increasingly become a factor of sociability. It is about allowing for a fluid confluence of ideas now. This landscape is crisscrossed by efforts at setting up salons and residencies, places where artists can converge and ideate both privately and in groups. It is a world where boundaries have been forced to blur and mediums have become mixed.

Architecture, itself part of this artistic shape-shifting, often responds by making possible the emergence of structures, structures inside which ideas can germinate and foster, away from the burden of convention. The aura of art around this homestudio, however, is consciously urban. The neighbourhood is dotted with construction totems, none of them too tall but most of them still recognisably prosaic, on the outside at least. This is no elusive cabin in the woods or a cavern in the mountains. The 300 sq m trapezoidal plot is in fact one of 216 such plots arranged in an octagonal grid at the periurban artists’ colony called Kaladham in Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh.