ARANYANI PAVILION
ARANYANI PAVILION
Temporary Pavilion | New Delhi, India
A structurally driven bamboo installation exploring the integration of landscape, movement, and living architecture.
Client: Tara Lal & Supreya Dravid
Key Highlights
• Spiral-inspired inhabitable landscape integrating architecture, movement, and ecology.
• Living rooftop forest supported entirely through a bamboo structural framework.
• Interwoven bamboo lattice system designed to negotiate complex curved geometries.
• Rapid assembly and lightweight construction enabled through bamboo’s adaptability and
prefabrication potential.
• Lantana camara outer skin repurposing an invasive species into an architectural surface.
• Integrated structural consultancy and execution ensuring seamless coordination between design
intent and construction.
Project Narrative
Conceived around the idea of the spiral, the Aranyani Pavilion draws inspiration from natural growth systems, sacred geometries, and fluid patterns found across nature. Designed as a continuous inhabitable landscape, the pavilion dissolves the boundary between built form and vegetation—allowing architecture and ecology to merge into a singular immersive environment.
The pavilion unfolds as a fluid spatial journey articulated through curved movement paths, layered thresholds, and rising and dipping geometries. Entry occurs through a compressed series of bamboo arches that transition into an open spiraling interior, creating an experience of gradual discovery rather than a singular point of arrival.
Ekarth Studio’s role focused on the structural design and bamboo construction of the pavilion, translating the architectural vision into a structurally resilient and buildable system. One of the project’s most ambitious challenges involved supporting a living rooftop landscape comprising soil, vegetation, water retention, and human occupancy across continuously shifting curved surfaces.
Bamboo was selected as the primary structural material for its tensile strength, flexibility, lightweight performance, and ability to negotiate complex organic forms with precision. Its lightweight nature enabled rapid assembly and efficient on-site execution while maintaining high structural performance.
The structural system was developed as a dense network of inclined and interwoven bamboo members forming a load-bearing lattice beneath the rooftop landscape. Through iterative physical modeling, structural testing, and precision-led craftsmanship, the pavilion balances structural robustness with visual lightness.
A defining aspect of the pavilion’s material expression lies in its woven outer skin constructed using Lantana camara. Repurposing this invasive species into an architectural material embeds ecological intelligence within the structure while softening the pavilion through texture, permeability, and filtered light.
More than a temporary installation, the Aranyani Pavilion demonstrates how regenerative materials, structural intelligence, and craft-led construction can converge to create immersive and future-facing architectural environments.
