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The Enclosure, Osaka, Japan by Hugo Betting & Simon Baudry 1

The Enclosure, Osaka, Japan by Hugo Betting & Simon Baudry

The Enclosure, Osaka, Japan by Hugo Betting & Simon Baudry 1
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Concrete serving the trees.

Every year, we grow our ecological debt.
And if the laws were not enough anymore? And if it were necessary for its continued existence that the mankind build walls, enclosures, delimiting a piece of the world subtracted to its capacities of nuisance?

The enclosure delimits a renounced territory. It is the mark of an irreversible choice, the last act of culture for what it delimits. The enclosure is an interior autonomy, present by what removes it from our eyes.
The enclosure is an object. Since it does not contain something that we know; since it is not inhabited.
The enclosure is a surface. Continuous, it expresses in the most radical way its human origin. Abstract, smooth and regular, it is anti-nature.

It’s concrete serving the trees.

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The Enclosure, Osaka, Japan by Hugo Betting & Simon Baudry 1
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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