Glass

A flying buttress was constructed from glass bottles.
These bottles were stuck by an appropriate adhesive. The arch is a funicular in shape( pure compression). A string was suspended from two points and weights were tied to it.

The string being suspended.


study model


Before removal of the form-work.

After the removal of the form-work.


The team which conceived and executed the arch.
top: Sujan umaraniya
bottom-left : Jayashree Bardhan
bottom-right : Pranav Gajjar

Bamboo

A view from the inside.



A mezzanine was also added to the existing structure.




The workshop before the roof was erected.

Concrete

A series of casts were made in concrete. All of body parts as, a hand, a leg, the face and the chest.


A conrete cast of the face.


The chest

Clay / Teracotta

A 1:500 scale clay model of Hagia sophia, Istanbul.


The GIPS mould of the model with clay slurry poured.


A clay slurry cast.


A clay slurry cast.


A hand modelled clay hand.


A slip cast of the palm.


GIPS mould of the hand.

detail*

Metal casting

A clay cast taken from a gips mould.

An alluminium cast of my face. .

Miscellaneous

A newspaper from 1900. *



A paper-cast.


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