Jetavan: A Spatial Edifice
Jetavan: A Spatial Edifice
- urbanNext, December 19, 2019.
- 409 words.
Energy and sustainability, Low Density, Project, sP+a, Urban Paradigms
Architecture&nature, Community, Courtyard, Cultural identity, Design process, development, Identity, India, Interstitial Space, Local materials, Local techniques, Project, Spatial definition, Spatial Ideologies, Waste management
Photography: Edmund Sumner
In Buddhist mythology, Jetvana is the name of one the Buddha’s most important spatial edifices which, when literally translated, means: the grove of Jeta, land donated to the sangha for founding a monastery. It was of semiotic significance that the site offered by Samir Somaiya, owner of the neighboring sugar factory in rural Maharashtra for the Buddhist Learning Center, was thickly forested – an idyllic grove of sorts.
2575-5374
Architecture Project Maharashtra, India India
Energy and sustainability, Low Density, Project, sP+a, Urban Paradigms
Architecture&nature, Community, Courtyard, Cultural identity, Design process, development, Identity, India, Interstitial Space, Local materials, Local techniques, Project, Spatial definition, Spatial Ideologies, Waste management
Photography: Edmund Sumner
In Buddhist mythology, Jetvana is the name of one the Buddha’s most important spatial edifices which, when literally translated, means: the grove of Jeta, land donated to the sangha for founding a monastery. It was of semiotic significance that the site offered by Samir Somaiya, owner of the neighboring sugar factory in rural Maharashtra for the Buddhist Learning Center, was thickly forested – an idyllic grove of sorts.
2575-5374
Architecture Project Maharashtra, India India