The design for the Banganga Crematorium evolves as a series of diverging paths and routes traced out on a restored site topography and affected by pre-existing conditions – such as Samadhi structures that needed to be retained, a community temple that needed to be redesigned at the exact same location within the plot,
– Suprio Bhattacharjee
The population of people living in slums in India, today exceeds the entire population of Britain. Slum Clearance projects as variously seen in the past have had limited success with incongruous built environments imposed
LIVING WEAVE, at New Delhi, India, by S|BAU / Suprio Bhattacharjee
The Interpretation Centre is situated amidst a wetland. A key idea at the heart of the project was the restoration of the landscape of the site to its prior state as a wetland, similar to that of the surrounding landscape, rather than have the state of imposed artificiality to which it had been consigned. – Suprio Bhattacharjee Architecture Unit
India: Unbuilt Architecture (VOl 1.0) features around 50 curated unbuilt ideas from across India and a number of intriguing essays and conversations among design professionals on the theme.