The recently concluded Artrovert design studio by Anagram Architects enumerates their characteristic collaborative approach, deeply contextual designs and sustainable aesthetics. The award winning design practice helmed by Madhav Raman and Vaibhav Dimri, has once again pushed the envelope by creating an artistic pièce de résistance in distressed concrete.
An Artist’s Haven
Artrovert is our project to design a studio in a peri-urban artists’ colony, Kaladham, in Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh. The 280 sqm. studio is built on a 300 sqm. trapezoidal plot, which is one of 216 arranged in an octagonal grid. Our client-collaborator is a multimedia artist whose politically charged works interrogate binaries, challenge representation and explore the antiaesthetic. Equally, unconventionally, her vision for her studio was not the typical introverted artist’s “cave” but rather an extroverted residency 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 of well-knit social networks for a growing community.
The Spatial Elucidation
This story is from the December 2016 edition of Insite.
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