USE YOUR HANDS TO BUILD

Constructing to continue history and existing buildings is an
interplay of challenges and opportunities. One strategy is to
persist in a museum-like preservation of the past, another strategy
is to courageously continue building with history. The roots of
Studio Lotus lie in learning history and local environment. They
follow an iterative and incremental methodology of innovation.
Studio Lotus takes a deep contextual approach to its work and
combines this with a strong focus on tactile and sensory qualities
of space. Their design process looks at sustainability through
multiple lenses of cultural, social and environmental impacts.
There is an active engagement in integrating local skills and
resources with state of the art materials and technologies. We talk
to Ambrish Arora from Studio Lotus in New Delhi / India about this
approach and its challenges.