Organic Dwelling

Project: J 183 - Apartment for Film Makers, Noida, UP

Architects: Archiopteryx, Noida, UP

With its silver porcelano cement mixed sea-shells floors and curved Delhi quartzite wall, the apartment is a testament of ‘transitive perfection’. This renovation project of an apartment, part of a multi-storeyed complex, treats perfection as a double-edged sword; as an elusive, fleeting goal. Though perfection is an end point, it exists only for a brief moment.

This quality of timelessness and transience is captured in the fluid and continuous—sometime stone, sometime rough brick and sometime glass ceiling, which capture the spatial volume of the house. Through a play of sunlight and skylight, light reflects on some materials and forms on a shadow on others, portraying a shadow sculpture that is perfect, when the time is right.