Form moves through form in ceaseless play,

where night is born inside the day.

It leaves, returns, then leaves again

And… “my house stands here and sings.” – Tarjei Vesaas

In the midst of a growing part of the city of Hyderabad, Telangana, India in the heart of Financial District - one finds a place for abode. RH29- an architecture of convergence, where opposites pool, not merely to resolve but to resonate. A space to call home, to come back to, to lean onto, to lean into, to be able to get away from> yet, a becoming/ a feeling of togetherness calling upon it. An intense force pulling and tugging- creating a wantonness to come home. 

This architecture does not only rise upward, it pools inward.

RH29 is a house in constant state of movement; a state of flux. Built on a ground that knows the masculine- assertive, angular, anchoring; and lets It lie with the feminine- fluid, yielding, wavering characteristics>>>aspects that seek togetherness, that blend into a form of tension, attraction and sometimes a quiet surrender. 

This is not about balance; this is a dialogue. 

FOCUS | Elevation_ West

RH29 is one that has shifting focus. Eye is entirely engaged in capturing the movement. 

DRAPERY | Beds

Fabric as it falls, folds, pools and gathers- especially in the kind of studied, almost sculptural seen in Renaissance masters- few ambitious objects fabricated in steel of this architecture are falling> folding> pooling and gathering like a fabric. 

PIROUETTE | Staircase

An act of spinning on one foot>this ceaselessly changing motion of curves to liberate and find itself back into rigidity of angularity of a simple sharp line.

PARTING CURRENTS | Doorway

As the ocean waves move away from each other, whilst they also seem to be getting together at another angle>> the entranceway to RH29 is a massive curve opening to let in/out as currents do. 

GRAVITATING | Surface Dips_ Elevations

To grow toward each other> an aspect of architecture where the surfaces dip ever so suddenly so needfully toward a ground/ a surface, almost sentient in architecture.

STILL COIL | Pendant light_ Zari

A line that did not end- it only turned> looped inward like a thought returning, then rose again, slower, softer like breeze on concrete… suspended in motion. 

KINETIC STILLNESS | Swing

A line of light loosens itself from the ceiling descending not as an ending, but as a continuation. It gathers into a seat; a brief pause in its own movement_ before rising again_ not a swing placed in space, but a memory passing through it.