Inclus dans:

• Fonds: Fonds Bijoy Jain, 2008-2015
•    Série(s): Projects, 2009-2014
•      Projet: Copper House II, 2009-2014

Personnes et institutions:

• Bijoy Jain (architect)
• Studio Mumbai (architectural firm)
• Bijoy Jain (archive creator)

Titre:

Copper House II

Date:

2009-2014

Niveau de description archivistique:
Project

Collation:

• 233 drawings (191 digital reproductions, 42 reprographic copies)
  12 photographs
  4 models
  2 video recordings

Présentation du contenu:
File documents an executed project for a private house in Chondi, Maharashtra, India. Copper House II is the second residence of a couple from Mumbai, who visit the house for a few days each week. It is located in a dense grove of mango trees near a brook that floods each year during the monsoon. To protect the inhabitants from the encroaching landscape, the house is set on an artificial high ground made of dirt dug for a well from the site itself. The open-air courtyard at the centre of the plan is paved in black basalt stones that also allow rainwater to drain below the house.
On the ground floor, large horizontal windows are sheathed in slatted ironwood and copper mesh, providing a form of camouflage for the house while still permitting views out from the living spaces. The two boxy spaces upstairs are private: one contains a master bedroom and study, the second a smaller bedroom. The thin copper sheets that cover the upper floor are waterproof and will develop a verdigris over time, further concealing the house within its setting.
File contains drawings, photographs, models, and a video recording.

Numéro de référence:

AP182.S1.2009.D1

Mode de classement:
Materials in this project series were likely not arranged when they were first processed.

Langue et écriture des documents:

• The reproduced notebooks (ARCH276525) are chiefly in Hindi.

Contient:

• ARCH273724, Copper House II : study models made at various stages of design development, December 2010
• ARCH275944, Copper House II digital photographs, August 2012-August 2014
• ARCH276518, Copper House II : video - 2011 Chondi, Maharashtra, India, October 2014
• ARCH276525, Carpenter sketches of Copper House II, November 2009-April 2011
• ARCH278270, Carpenter sketches, Copper House II, November 2009-April 2011
• ARCH278518, Copper House II : short video of interior courtyard during rainshower, October 2014
• ARCH286649, Copper House II : notebook of carpenter sketches and calculations, November 2009-January 2010