INTERTWINE

Course: Camping in the Ruins of Chavda Rakhal

Year: Winter School, 2022

Faculty: Sankalpa

Location: Kutchh, Gujarat

Heightened awareness can happen in an environment which is unknown. The Rakhal offers an unknown environment due to the presence of a tropical landscape in an arid region. The idea is to intensify one’s senses to appreciate that unknown and make people sensitive towards conserving such environments.

The Rakhal could itself function as an interpretation centre, where the ruins act as a threshold between the arid and the tropical landscape. The idea is to inculcate a journey of exploration and discovery (be it as an individual or a group), where one travels though the arid into the tropical landscape, coming across various spaces that heightens one’s senses making them more alert and conscious about their surroundings. The exhibition space is made in the form of a maze, to inculcate a journey of exploration, giving glimpses of the ruins along the journey, acting as a bridge between the tropical garden and the arid region of Kutchh.