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Chennai House
2013-2014
Project
File documents a project for a private house in Chennai, India. The design takes the form of a rectangular pavilion surrounding an open-air courtyard. The site is a former cricket pitch surrounded by a tropical garden. The structure is in granite, a material commonly used in Chennai, paired with lighter materials such as brick and timber. To address the city's hot and humid climate, the house is conceived as a porous structure that allows free circulation of air and water. An integrated irrigation system carries water between the home's corrugated roof, its exterior walls, and a series of surrounding lotus ponds and gardens. This movement mimics the visual and cooling effects of a rain shower multiple times each day.
File contains drawings, photographs, and models.
Materials in this project series were likely not arranged when they were first processed.
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4 wood, metal wire, with traces of graphite; 1 wood with traces of graphite and pen and ink; 1 wood with traces of graphite; 1 wood, metal wire.
7 model(s)
model (largest): 7,37 × 34,04 × 44,45 cm (2 7/8 × 13 3/8 × 17 1/2 in.) model (smallest): 3,3 × 13,4 × 17,5 cm (1 5/16 × 5 1/4 × 6 7/8 in.) case: 43,2 × 68,6 × 29,5 cm
- The models are in a wooden case labeled "Small study models".
Bijoy Jain fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Bijoy Jain/
Gift of Bijoy Jain
Model © Bijoy Jain / Photo © CCA
Objects that have been catalogued:
Photographs of the building site prior to construction.
1 File
Bijoy Jain fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Bijoy Jain/
Gift of Bijoy Jain
Objects that have been catalogued:
1 File
Bijoy Jain fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Bijoy Jain/
Gift of Bijoy Jain
Objects that have been catalogued:
Schematic and plan sketches.
The drawings were reproduced by the CCA from digital scans (ARCH276501) for the exhibition Rooms You May Have Missed, held at the CCA November 4, 2014-April 19, 2015.
56 reprographic copy(ies)
sheets (smallest): 14.2 × 9.3 cm (5 9/16 × 3 11/16 in.) sheets (largest): 59.2 × 42 cm (23 5/16 × 16 9/16 in.)
Bijoy Jain fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Bijoy Jain/
Gift of Bijoy Jain
1 drawing(s)
Watercolour, graphite on paper
sheet: 41 × 31 cm (16 1/8 × 12 3/16 in.)
Bijoy Jain fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Bijoy Jain/
Gift of Bijoy Jain
© Bijoy Jain
Objects that have been catalogued:
Reproduced by the CCA from digital scans (ARCH276501) for the exhibition Rooms You May Have Missed, held at the CCA November 4, 2014-April 19, 2015.
1 reprographic copy(ies)
sheet: 92.9 × 69.4 cm (36 9/16 × 27 5/16 in.)
Bijoy Jain fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Bijoy Jain/
Gift of Bijoy Jain
Bijoy Jain fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Bijoy Jain/
Gift of Bijoy Jain
© Bijoy Jain
Objects that have been catalogued:
1 model(s)
model: 8,3 × 38,3 × 35,6 cm (3 1/4 × 15 1/16 × 14 in.) case: 12,4 × 40,5 × 46,7 cm
- The model is in a wooden case labeled "chennai Model".
Bijoy Jain fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Bijoy Jain/
Gift of Bijoy Jain
Objects that have been catalogued:
1 model(s)
Wood, metal, ink, traces of graphite
model: 8 × 22 × 26 cm model: 10 × 20 × 24 cm
Bijoy Jain fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Bijoy Jain/
Gift of Bijoy Jain
Model © Bijoy Jain
Objects that have been catalogued:
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