The site for ISKCON Temple is located in Gandhinagar, Gujarat has a very hot and semi-arid climate with an average temperature of 41⁰C. Contemporary visual styles with organization and circulation principles of ancient India form the design-ideology. The project strives to let the large structure be perceived by lightness by strategically fragmenting the entire structure into visually captivating sub-structures defining its rising form. Punctured Jali corridors flank an open air holy water body that mirrors the temple in its clear waters. 

Natural light and ventilation is the key design feature, and the structure seamlessly facilitates these by allowing entry of the same strategically and in-perceivably through the structural elements itself. The project provides opportunity and abundance of culturally enlightening programs, providing gardens and open spaces for public use.

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Rupali Gupte

Rupali Gupte is an architect and urbanist based in Mumbai, Professor at the School of Environment and Architecture (SEA) and a partner at BARDStudio. Her work often crosses disciplinary boundaries and takes different forms – writings, drawings, mixed-media works, story telling, teaching, curation, walks and spatial interventions.

Her works include extensive research on contemporary Indian urbanism with a focus on architecture and built environment; tactical practices; housing; and urban form. In 2013, she co-founded the School of Environment and Architecture (sea.edu.in). SEA is envisaged as an experimental academic space for research and education in architecture and urbanism. She has a wide range of publications, has delivered lectures and been on juries across the world. Her works in collaboration with her partner Prasad Shetty, have been shown in several exhibitions including the 56th Venice Biennale, X Sao Paolo Architecture Biennale, Seoul Biennale of Art and Architecture, at Manifesta 7 in Bolzano, at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona and at galleries such as Project 88, Devi Art Foundation and the Mumbai Art Room. She has recently curated an exhibition involving artists and architects titled ‘When is Space? Conversations in Contemporary Architecture’ at the Jawahar Kala Kendra.

Rupali Gupte