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Visualisation of Courtyard.

Visualisation of Courtyard.

Visualisation of Modular Housing Unit.

Visualisation of Modular Housing Unit.

Visualisation of Courtyard.

Visualisation of Courtyard.

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Conjuring Clairvaux

This meditation on home wrestles with Country, with built and organic matter, to engender the very constitution of ‘home’ itself. Country is neither spatial nor temporal; it exists beneath modernity, difficult to even think of agitating. This project extends a hand toward Old Clairvaux, seeking to rejuvenate the site and breathe new air into a place where people might cultivate their own lives—coalescing as individuals, families, and children. In doing so, it proposes an antithesis to the ways the site and its occupants once operated, toying with preservation of previous structures in tandem to the new.

Mannav Badal

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Conjuring Clairvaux

This meditation on home wrestles with Country, with built and organic matter, to engender the very constitution of ‘home’ itself. Country is neither spatial nor temporal; it exists beneath modernity, difficult to even think of agitating. This project extends a hand toward Old Clairvaux, seeking to rejuvenate the site and breathe new air into a place where people might cultivate their own lives—coalescing as individuals, families, and children. In doing so, it proposes an antithesis to the ways the site and its occupants once operated, toying with preservation of previous structures in tandem to the new.

Mannav Badal

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