Temple in Stone & Light, Barmer (Rajasthan) by Space Matters
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FACT FILE
Project Name: Temple in Stone & Light
Location: Barmer, Rajasthan
Client: JSW Raj West Power Ltd
Plot Area: 4,360 sq.mt
Built-up Area: 138 sq.mt
Year of Completion: 2016
Architecture & Design: Space Matters, New Delhi
Principal Architects: Suditya Sinha, Amritha Ballal
Design Team: Anand Lakhani, Juhi Mehta, Rishi Suman, Adarsh Saravanan, Sneha Kathi, Waseem Ahmad
Structural Design: Sanjeev Aggarwal - Ace Designs, Kulwinder Singh - Design Roots
Project Management: RWPL - Civil Works Department
Vastu Consultant: Ashok Sharma
DESCRIPTION
India has a glorious history of temple architecture. The desert state of Rajasthan, where the temple is located, has an equally diverse and refined heritage of buildings set in an unforgiving climatic zone. Given this legacy, to design a contemporary Hindu temple set in the sand dunes of Rajasthan has been an enormous challenge.
Lord Shiva, to whom this temple is dedicated, dwells in paradoxes and apparent dualities. In Hindu scriptures and mythology he manifests as both - the Preserver and the Destroyer. In unison with goddess Shakti, he transcends the duality of the masculine and feminine principle. Like other such perceived dualities, masculinity and femininity are often approached as a continuum rather than a binary in Indian philosophy and mythology. This symbolism needed to be translated into evocative spatial clues to deliver this project. The architecture of the temple combines the heavy materiality of the stone with the lightness of the form, where the solid looking stone exterior dissolves as the night dawns and transforms into a delicate lantern in the dunes. During the day, light filters into the sanctum of the temple. At night, light turns the temple inside-out, extending an invitation to those outside while rewarding those within. This gesture also subtly seeks to illuminate the need for inclusion in contemporary religious spaces, which still tend exclude based on old age biases of gender, class, caste or orientation.
The state of Rajasthan is known world over as the source of stone and stone craftsmanship. We sought to celebrate this heritage. The local Jaisalmer Yellow Sandstone was our choice of stone - its glowing surface reflects that golden desert sun that is strongly associated with Rajasthan. The yellow sandstone gives the temple an appearance of having risen from the surrounding sands. The pure compression structure is reveals through each course and component that forms the superstructure. The design - with its strong form, stark quality and play of light on warm stone - seeks to evoke visual and tactile senses of the worshiper. The stainless steel ‘shikhara’ or the peak atop the golden stone, catches the light during sunrise and sunset and also celebrates the legacy of the organization that commissioned this building. At different times of the day, from different directions, the temple is heavy and light, solid and translucent, valid and void, past and present
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Best modern design temple i have ever seen ..... simple and unique.. Best place for meditation.
@kavitachoudhary3391
2 жыл бұрын
Where is this temple located in barmer
It's beautiful, we really need to diversify in terms of temple architecture. We have been making replicas of one type of Nagara(Northern) & Dravida(Southern) styles all over the country.
har har mahadev
A really nice project at barmer. M also a architect from barmer. And temple is trully awasome.
Its a beautiful temple.
So so beautiful temple
the magic is in the detail
i really hope we start getting new, modern interpretations of temple design.... the ancients used to evolve their needs as time passed... but off late we seem to make cheap looking copies of medieval designs... this is a great step forward
@lovekanaujia345
2 жыл бұрын
Exactly the scale of temples would really help in propagating new, innovative designs with traditional elements ofcourse. I wish the Ram Temple design had included some new elements but it is more or less similar to Somnath Temple, hardly any innovation.
@NostalgiaforInfinity
Жыл бұрын
How about no? We don't need garbage western postmodernism. Stop copying the west shamelessly. Come up with your own "modern" designs. There is nothing "modern" or sensible about western postmodernist architecture. If anything it's ugly and degenerate that likes to destroy beauty and ornate designs in favor of utility. Art is beyond utility and temples are supposed to be works of art as well as mediums of education and knowledge. Not simplistic piles of stone. Learn what temple designs and iconography are supposed to mean before foolishly copying the west in a lame attempt to look "modern".
Awesome!
Incredible 🙏👏
Nice mix of traditional and modern
Great Design!!
Skillfully crafted
It's looking so beautiful
Nice architecture
Beautiful design
Grand..and..beautiful...design...
@mandirmurtigumbajnirmata7360
4 жыл бұрын
Mandir murti nirman hetu sampark kare mo nu 9665256181
Om namah shivaya
Good concept ..
Superb
Nice
👏
Total cost???
Mam I need also temple design for 5 Acer, ramalayam, hunuman temple, and Shiva temple.....
The girl is so intelligence
is it already built?
Project cost?
What was the estimated cost of this temple
@mandirmurtigumbajnirmata7360
4 жыл бұрын
Mandir murti nirman hetu sampark kare mo nu 9665256181
Where is the temple located?
Mandir murti nirman hetu sampark kare
How tall is it?
@NostalgiaforInfinity
Жыл бұрын
Doesn't look more than 20-25 feet.
agama shastra of the temple is wrong!
@sonicdeeofficial8925
2 жыл бұрын
What is agama shastra
@lovekanaujia345
2 жыл бұрын
That's because we are not teaching any of the ancient texts in modern colleges But we really need to innovate in temple architecture