House of solid stone
- Vol.88(3), Mar
- Mumbai Indian Institute of Architects 2023
- 60-61p.
The site is located in Jaipur, Rajasthan that is synonymous with sandstone as a building material but sadly, over the last few decades, this material has been reduced to a 'cladding' medium and its potential as a robust and sustainable structural element has not been explored. The house in Jaipur presented us with an opportunity to explore and evolve a method of building that has been prevalent in traditional buildings for centuries. We laid out a simple brief: no material other than stone should be used for construction.This made us dive deeply into the art of 'making' with stone and the first sketches were the confluence of traditional knowledge reinforced with cutting-edge engineering.