Project of the Month: Jetavan
For religious societies, heritage and traditions play an important role in maintaining identity, culture and allowing for the community's self-improvement, both spiritually but also in a spatial sense. Therefore, the way people occupy the place in which they live leads to the material fulfillment of religious aims.
Courtesy of Edmund Summer
For religious societies, heritage and traditions play an important role in maintaining identity, culture and allowing for the community's self-improvement, both spiritually but also in a spatial sense. Therefore, the way people occupy the place in which they live leads to the material fulfillment of religious aims.With the creation of a place that follows their sacred order?the Jetavana?the community can be enriched while performing their traditions and rituals in a specific and proper way through architecture.Created for a religious community with poor economic resources, this project designed by Sameep Padora & Associates achieves this purpose and delivers a space with great spiritual significance and value through the reincarnation of materials, minimal intervention in the natural environment and by gathering a community?s traditions. In the following text, the architects elaborate on some of the factors that made this ArchDaily's Project of the Month for July.
Courtesy of Edmund Summer
Jetavan / Sameep Padora & AssociatesCriteria used for selecting re-used materialsThe primary driver was a mon...
Courtesy of Edmund Summer
For religious societies, heritage and traditions play an important role in maintaining identity, culture and allowing for the community's self-improvement, both spiritually but also in a spatial sense. Therefore, the way people occupy the place in which they live leads to the material fulfillment of religious aims.With the creation of a place that follows their sacred order?the Jetavana?the community can be enriched while performing their traditions and rituals in a specific and proper way through architecture.Created for a religious community with poor economic resources, this project designed by Sameep Padora & Associates achieves this purpose and delivers a space with great spiritual significance and value through the reincarnation of materials, minimal intervention in the natural environment and by gathering a community?s traditions. In the following text, the architects elaborate on some of the factors that made this ArchDaily's Project of the Month for July.
Courtesy of Edmund Summer
Jetavan / Sameep Padora & AssociatesCriteria used for selecting re-used materialsThe primary driver was a mon...
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