Intellectual merit

Varanasi is a city whose spirit combines real and imagined space realised in the theatricality of daily Indian life played out by the chaotic mass of people in amongst a haphazard array of buildings.

It is an architecture generated in the mind- lived space- where space is produced through people’s movements in the city informed by associations with tradition and history. It is a landscape that exists not only in physical space but in the minds of each one of the city’s inhabitants.

Process

My proposition is the development of this ‘in-the-mind’ environment, a reversal of people extracting information from the land, as I try to map the cognitive mind of this society onto the physical environment.