The Naomi Milgrom Foundation has released plans for Studio Mumbai founder Bijoy Jain?s design for the 2016 MPavilion, the Australian counterpart to London's wildly successful Serpentine Gallery Pavilion program. Continuing the concepts driving Studio Mumbai?s work, the pavilion will utilize a process Jain describes as ?Lore,? an exploration of handmade architecture and simplicity of building craft that centers on the relationship between making and human connectedness.

The Naomi Milgrom Foundation has released plans for Studio Mumbai founder Bijoy Jain?s design for the 2016 MPavilion, the Australian counterpart to London's wildly successful Serpentine Gallery Pavilion program. Continuing the concepts driving Studio Mumbai?s work, the pavilion will utilize a process Jain describes as ?Lore,? an exploration of handmade architecture and simplicity of building craft that centers on the relationship between making and human connectedness.
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The 2016 MPavilion will consist of an 18 meter by 18 meter structure built of bamboo, rope, earth and bluestone sourced from India and Australia. Reaching 12 meters tall, the pavilion will become the largest bamboo structure ever built in Australia, and will be capped with a roof made from karvi panels (similar to a wattle and daub form of construction). The awning and roof panels will then be covered using a traditi...