Nav/Laya - A Confluence The greatest aspect of Jaipur is that its map prepared before constructing

Nav/Laya - A Confluence
The greatest aspect of Jaipur is that its map prepared before constructing the city and the city was constructed as per the map… Roads cut each other on the same angles… The main road from the east to west is 111 feet wide and 2 miles and 40 yards long. Three wide roads intersect it. A wide Road originates from the palace gates known as Tripolia gate. This Road divides the town situated between the second and the third major roads. Thus nine rhombuses have been formed. In Jaipur it is known as Chaukori. The nine rhombuses have been kept as a symbol of nine treasures of Kuber, The gold of affluence. The north western end has been merged in the Amer mountains. Hence eight rhombuses have been made with oblong area; one has been built in its South, three have been made equal actually do in the east. Rajendra Shankar Bhatt- Sawai Jai Singh 1972.
Nav/Laya is it juxtaposition of the work of Abin design studio with Navagraha mandala - original Jaipur city plan and the base of Correa’s Jawahar Kala Kendra. While ‘nav’ represents the absolute (nine), ‘laya’ is both dissolution and merging, morphing in its meaning with context. The installation is aligned with the twist that Correa uses to mimic the deviation in Jaipur’s plan. In the pavilion, people inhabit the space in-between the stable grid of pathways and the transforming canopies.
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