MUMBAI STUDIO PUBLICATION

Frederic Levrat’s design studio designs and builds a “materialization of Information” pavilion in Mumbai.

“Our environment today is increasingly influenced by nonmaterial conditions, from which we interpret material equivalences. from the stock market to urban regulations law, the tension between the virtual and the physical is increasingly richer and more complex. most of the time, the rules defining architecture are based on the physical condition of gravity and the economical condition of construction cost. but other forces are shaping our society, from social to informational. are there other forces to be expressed in architecture than responding to gravity?’ these are the thoughts posed by professor Frederic Levrat and director Phillip Anzalone of Columbia university. with these questions in mind, a group of six students from the graduate school of architecture, planning, and preservation (GSAPP) and Narsee Monjee institute of management studies (NMIMS) developed ‘space + image pavilion’, a small structure which would explore the relation between the virtual, the visual, and the physical.”