Anupama Kundoo exhibition opens at Louisiana Museum

A serious exhibition on the Louisiana Museum in Denmark shines a highlight on Anupama Kundoo, an Indian architect with an distinctive information of conventional supplies and craft traditions.

Anupama Kundoo – Taking Time gives an perception into the concepts driving Kundoo’s “gradual structure” method, which she has utilized to each housing and neighborhood infrastructure.

Favouring hand-made parts over mass-produced elements, her work centres round ongoing, intensive analysis into sustainable practices and supplies.

That is revealed right here by way of the inclusion of Kundoo’s architectural archive, which not solely accommodates various intricate fashions but additionally numerous building instruments and materials samples.

Exhibition highlights embody a full-scale mockup of Kundoo’s reasonably priced housing idea, Full Fill House, which debuted on the Venice Structure Biennale in 2016.

There are additionally detailed fashions of Kundoo’s own residence, Wall Home, a constructing that champions regional constructing traditions like achakal bricks and terracotta roofing methods.

Anupama Kundoo – Taking Time is the most recent instalment in a collection of exhibitions titled The Architect’s Studio, curated by Kjeld Kjeldsen and Mette Marie Kallehauge. In every, the purpose has been to disclose the method behind the buildings.

“Kundoo tries to return qualitative time to the manufacturing of structure – by human work and human hand, which naturally takes longer than machines however entails a much better sense of supplies, element, area and the constructing’s relationship to the positioning,” mentioned the curators.

” Kundoo’s buildings, it’s unattainable to not sense that they’re distinctive works, the epitome of site-specific structure.”

The exhibition consists of two components. The primary room, known as The Structure of Time, is devoted to archive materials. Right here, 13 constructing fashions are displayed alongside an assortment of artefacts.

There are three tables of supplies: one that includes a mixture of pure stones and wooden, one lined in earth (each rammed and fired), and one exploring cement and concrete.

Additionally on this room is a mannequin of the Volontariat Houses for Homeless Kids, a cluster of dome-shaped housing models made out of handmade mud bricks, and Hut Petite Ferme, the primary home Kundoo designed for herself.

The second room, titled Co-creation, hones in on Auroville – town the place Kundoo has been based mostly for almost all of her profession, and the place a lot of her buildings are situated.

Right here, the main focus is on Kundoo’s largest undertaking to this point – the 240,000-square-metre housing growth, Strains of Goodwill. A big mannequin, together with 1:1 scale materials samples, reveals Kundoo’s methods for environmentally delicate houses that join residents to nature.

That is the fourth exhibition that the Louisiana has hosted as a part of The Architect’s Studio collection, following retrospectives of Chinese language architect Wang Shu, Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena and Mexican architect Tatiana Bilbao.

“After all, the entire exhibition collection is to do with completely different cultures,” Kjeldsen beforehand informed Dezeen.

Anupama Kundoo – Taking Time opened on eight October and continues till 31 January on the Louisiana Museum. See Dezeen Occasions Information for an up-to-date record of structure and design occasions going down all over the world.