is that the right position firstly and
and you can all hear me I’m I’m often
accused of speaking very loudly so I
don’t really need the mic my wife is
always telling me please put it down put
it down so I think we can I’ve most of
my talks and lectures have been directed
or our addressing architecture
architectural professionals in the
design industry so when I was asked to
come and speak here and then I was also
sent a format because I’ve been known to
me and I’ve been known
I always give the example of let’s say
pundit Shiv Sharma that he comes on
stage and he takes 12 to 15 minutes to
unveil his instrument and then he will
of tune it and somebody will ask why
didn’t you do this at home man why are
you doing it here so but it’s you know
so some of us old-timers and I mean over
time is you know sort of we we we have
this thing of meandering but I’ve been
told in fact my son told me that you’ve
got to you know get on there and you
have your specified time and so on so so
let’s get on with it
mine is a slightly different take I’ve
looked at the subject off I mean I see
the majority of you sitting here see
students I see aspirations I see what am
I going to be what am I going to do he’s
a fundamental to when we are in school
or go before we go to university or even
in university this is a very very
relevant it’s a very important question
that is before us and
for me the I call it which you see up
there is realizing your potential which
is both unique and infinite so we’ll
start to get into these words one by one
potential will come to a regulator but
let’s say why unique because each one of
us is completely unique there’s not a
single person amongst billions who has
the same cornea the same fingerprint or
the same DNA
we are completely unique so that is very
important that you realize this because
we are constantly comparing that I you
know and we’re you know that I want to
be that person please realize you’ll be
unique whatever it is you are it’s very
important to realize that the second why
I say infinite this body
it’s mine it’s composed of eight billion
cells it’s a complete cosmos and it is
definitely full of infinite
possibilities we have seen that
expressed in so many people down the
years from mentioned the word Ruben
dinar to go Einstein on the other side
so we have infinite possibility so we
then
say that okay I had these two parameters
unique the possibilities are infinite
how do I discover and how do I get into
these possibilities what is the
methodology question what do you want to
be in life or what decides now we are
always I was with I was was biggest an
hour week back and I was with my if you
somewhere that kind of age group and the
first question you asked yeah I asked
you asked that young man is where are
you studying I’m studying in the
international school and what are you
gonna do or what is it that you enjoy
doing and so it’s the first question you
would always ask off anybody and he said
you know I’m not very clear you know I’m
good in maths
I like physics a little bit but
literature so and so so I asked him a
simple question I said young man there’s
a park not far from your house
ten minutes walking distance he must be
wondering what the hell is this
connection with this guy you know he’s
just come in here he’s been not even
been here 24 hours and he’s talking he’s
talking about this subject and then
talking about a park in the same breath
so I told him
have you been there no you know it’s
very cold and I I know it’s there but I
in the first morning I was there I was
in it was absolutely exquisite
the birds were chirping the colors of
fall of russets and goals was happening
there
the Sun was filtering through the trees
and and I told him I said that
ultimately to realize this you have to
change direction the centrifugal must
become same repeat the direction has to
change you must know a little bit about
nature and and so so we come to it who
finally decides certainly you’re doing
well you know that these are your
aptitudes
there are teachers who are directing you
there there will be counselors there
will be guides finally and all this is
necessary I’m for one moment not saying
I’m anti this no no it’s it’s a nice
process it’s like education itself but
are they really the final are they
really going to decide where you’re
going to be who knows this and then we
come to the next part which is the only
person who really knows you is yourself
so now we start touching upon what is
called or turn to be a highly complex
subject to me it’s amazingly simple and
therefore I will you know so I will pick
up the threads and move on to this thing
what is this journey who is this the
world did you or me not we understand
itself what is this and how do you
really get to it
so this particular talk is is getting is
going to be a little bit of a journey
and it’s not a journey which has to do
with dogmas theories and so on so forth
it is an experience Roger and it’s a
journey
which came upon me I didn’t undertake
that job so I will I will as we go along
try and share a little bit of something
which you may find maybe a little
abstract may be expressed in metaphors
you know it’s 1+1 to know so we talked
about the quest for the self right
now let’s start to when we start to look
an approach a subject I think we need to
have a certain language a certain syntax
so I say first learn the art of
listening what is this let’s say for
example I’m speaking and just as those
words have reached you you have
sometimes either accepted or rejected
them straight away listening or deep
listening is something else
it means don’t interfere whether is what
is coming through to you you have plenty
of time later to say I accept it or I
reject it but first let it come which
means that you need to reduce the amount
of noise going on inside the head at any
given moment and then you receive what
is coming later on you can you can take
your call whether it’s something
acceptable to you or not
awareness you become you should become
extremely aware and that awareness comes
through being in that moment you always
find this mind is always somewhere else
it’s never here it’s always on the other
bank that’s the very nature so you need
to be aware means you need to be in the
moment
third experience this is what I said
that there are lots of things that we
can talk there about words there about
theories dogmas doctrines but there is
one thing which we call experiential
which is something that you have
experienced only then are you really
qualified to speak about it and then
existence this journey we are talking
about is not divergent from life it’s
very much part of mainstream life it’s
about it’s it goes alongside we always
tend to say that look if you are going
to go on this kind of a search it’s
at the cost of this you have to forsake
this no it’s very much part of our
everyday life it’s very much part of the
journey that we have so it’s not a
divergent journey that we need to
undertake we move on come to the subject
off as we start were to go deeper let’s
get into the four eyes and particularly
for the kids there
first of all intellect what is intellect
because we certainly get into the
dictionary but let’s get a little deeper
into what is the meaning of the
intellect intellect deals with something
which has been given to you which has
been borrowed right from the time you
were born to the present stage that you
are whether it came from parents it came
from teachers it came from it ultimately
comes in life it comes from universities
it will come from bosses it will come
from books it will come from media but
it is something completely borrowed none
of this is your own power we come to the
next one
instinct this is a word which has been
pushed into the basement we’ve added a
prefix to it whenever we use the word
instinct there’s a prefix of animal
added to it we’ve forgotten what this
word is this is something you have been
born it’s intrinsically auditory now
let’s let’s start to look at what does
it really mean let’s say
I feel hungry I eat food when my body
says I need food I eat food that’s what
the animal does also feeling hungry will
eat food doesn’t require food for the
next two or three days will not eat but
us it’s not so we do not live things
because he leaves things absolutely
leaves things absolutely to the body the
body says I want to eat I respond with
us the issue starts – the problem starts
when it moves from awareness of the body
that we get to it goes to the mind so
things of the body when they start
moving to the mind then start all the
problems that we have they come out of
repression and we see it all around us
you look at it today you have such a
high degree of depression of mental
illness a lot of it happens when you are
actually pushing things to the mind
which have no business to be there
there are things of the heart even there
there are things with the body leave
them there and and they settle down but
we push everything up there and that’s
where you find the clamor and all the
noise there it’s very interesting for
you kids that one day just pick up a
paper and a pencil lock yourself in the
room for half an hour and simply jot
down whatever thought comes into your
head don’t hold it back don’t try and
censor it don’t carry whatever comes
just note it down I will tell you and I
can promise you that you will never show
that paper to anybody it is for the
first time that you will start to get an
idea of what’s going on here it makes
you aware of what’s really going on here
it will surprise you some good and will
shock you is this what’s going on in my
head
it’s very important third one we come to
his intelligence now this is something
again born with us and the more and the
quieter you become intelligent starts to
surface and intelligence the pinnacle of
intelligence is that you come to number
four which is intuition now for the
first time something there is a
possibility of something which is not
borrowed emerging we call it creativity
you can call it anything but the bottom
line is this that this is the first time
that there is a possibility of something
that is going to come which is not
borrowed from somewhere else
I will being an architect I will take
you through a little journey because
when you when you go to a particular
site and this particular site was an
alley bug I was to do a house for
industrialist and when you normally ask
a person that when you go to a site what
do you do oh you have this vision that I
want things to look like this and this
is how I visualize things for me
and I will step back five and a half
decades at least so that I’m your age
you can now begin to gauge my age okay I
was born in the Himalayas in the
mountains and I spent my entire
childhood there it’s important because I
told you I’ll talk to you about a
journey and I was surrounded by nature
every day I would ride a horse they were
hardly any motor cars on the road it’s a
very strange and bizarre scenario that
you can paint in you know you can
picture surrounded by nature surrounded
by fruit orchards you wake up sometimes
early morning and everything had turned
white and somewhere disconnect is trying
to understand nature and I use this word
very you know very freely is that I fell
in love with nature it’s all around me
and I fell in love with it and when you
fall in love I think some of you have to
wait a little bit to do that you you
want to get closer and you want to
understand this language at this point
there was intervention and I will not go
into the details of it but to
communicate with nature the only
language is that of silence it’s
extremely important to understand this
word it is not the absence of external
noise is the absence of noise inside so
if you have you want to be close to
nature you want to embrace nature and
the language of communication because
you wanted so badly is silence I would
like to steer clear and I would of the
esoteric
but let it suffice but this enquiry this
quest that we talked about as we started
for the self there’s more than 5000
years ago at least recorded so it’s not
something I have conjured up it’s not
something I have contributed or bought
here it’s been around so there are and
it’s very interesting
112 known methods of meditation 112 but
that’s a complex subject this kid let’s
make it simple the common thread the
common thing there is witnessing that’s
all we simply become a witness your
awareness heightens and you become a
witness so you go through that process
and you finally realize that as you come
closer to nature that you are part of it
you’re not divergent from it very much
part of it we are always trying to
dominate nature we’re always trying to
you know but we don’t understand that we
are an intrinsic part of it it is then
but when you come close to nature but
you actually come close to the self it’s
at that point that you’ll find that a
lot of burden on you of making choices
of stress you know you develop a lot of
inner strength you become fearless so
all of these qualities come in which
help you determine where you will
finally go for me this was the journey
and I will explain to you that coming to
a site does this really work this kind
of thinking does it really work so let’s
go to a site I go to a site and I see
hundreds of trees I go to a site not as
an architect or it’s a designer but I go
there with reverence I go there I would
walk a couple of hours went around I saw
the trees I saw there were a few bald
spots between the trees which would give
me the only possibility of building
because to cut a tree his heresy would
never step on me I would I looked at the
Sun how it moved through in those couple
of hours you know how the Sun trajectory
is going you understand what are the
water sources there were two wells on
the site and how I would be able to be
self-sustaining so you actually realize
that you went there I went there or I go
there without baggage completely I don’t
go there with an idea but this is what I
want to do I go there completely blank
and I go there with the reverence that I
go with true nature and saying okay
please guide me now that I am here and
from then on we if you see the diagram
on the right here bald spots picked up
on the site connected through and that’s
where we said that we had the
possibility to construct
how and what do you do when you start to
approach the design process here the
next part after looking at all the
parameters which I call sustainability
directly connected in nature then we
start to look at what is the memory of
the place what is the meaning of memory
memory means how did they traditionally
build here
high rainfall areas what kind of local
materials were there they use clay tiles
it’s it’s typical Konkan architecture it
was wood clay tiles and so on so you
really gotten to understanding that how
they were rebuilt which was completely
sustainable now that also looks at
things clay you know climatically it
looks at insulation it looks at the
amount of light coming through it also
looks at deep shaded spaces which you
need in the tropical climate and so on
so all of this is actually the memory of
the place which you begin to start to
filter through and begin to sort of
induct into the matrix that you call
design so over time you find there are
layers that start to have there is a
layer of sustainability there’s a layer
of memory and layer of function after
all the client says this is what I need
and all these various layers start to
pile up one on top of the other and
still there is no design because
somewhere through this you begin to see
an image start to appear maybe faint but
start to appear so so what does the what
does the architect had been doing all
along what is what have I been doing all
along and actually become a catalyst if
you ask me that if you got all these
influences and you did this what what on
earth have you done you know but I have
become a catalyst something else is
dictating this whole process it’s moving
through nature moves through you do
become the catalyst so we move on now we
we started to look at the fact that when
you look at the tree what does it say
it’s got
a trunk and it’s got branches it has
minimum impact upon the ground so our
entire structural system is based and
inspired by the tree we all see these
trees you know every day we see them but
there are things that when I just said
you get close to it then you view it in
a completely different way so we looked
at that and we looked at very slender
supports hitting the ground and from
their tree like branches that support
the roofs now this also means minimum
intrusion onto the ground because when
we say sustainable
I don’t also also I don’t also want to
dig the entire ground up so we simply
come to a particular point and then from
there take the branches and they hold
the roof there and this particular slide
shows that and somewhere where the tree
is growing and it’s growing through the
roof when it grows through the roof you
know so the question always comes what
came first the house of the tree which
is wonderful sustainability on water and
how do you handle the wells that are
there how do you charge the wells during
the rains and so on so forth
how do you make this house sustainable
completely sustainable under water so
you can look at the diagrams which where
you can see how the the water charging
systems and so on so for made I’ve not
get too much into details but the idea
is that when you talk about
sustainability it’s not a myth it’s not
something out there it’s not leads
rating it’s not points it’s it’s really
about a lot of common sense cease to
exist and we would have lost an immense
amount of wealth and richness that we
have in the tapestry and the
possibilities that we have
okay so whilst so this is what we did
and as he puts so I’ve got a two-minute
clip of what happened with this place
you know that I’ve given you the inputs
this is how we approach the concept and
so on so forth this is how nature came
through and I’ll give you a little bit
to see the images of what happened as I
walk away from this house
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so I’ll ask you one question at the end
of this that I leave it to you to decide
that that what was my contribution to
this
I said learnt the art of listening go
there and I saw everything I worked in
consonants with nature I I kept myself
that reordered I came without baggage I
came without preconceived notions and
this can only only happen if you start
they said to move into silence and then
into the cells
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and you can all hear me I’m I’m often
accused of speaking very loudly so I
don’t really need the mic my wife is
always telling me please put it down put
it down so I think we can I’ve most of
my talks and lectures have been directed
or our addressing architecture
architectural professionals in the
design industry so when I was asked to
come and speak here and then I was also
sent a format because I’ve been known to
me and I’ve been known
I always give the example of let’s say
pundit Shiv Sharma that he comes on
stage and he takes 12 to 15 minutes to
unveil his instrument and then he will
of tune it and somebody will ask why
didn’t you do this at home man why are
you doing it here so but it’s you know
so some of us old-timers and I mean over
time is you know sort of we we we have
this thing of meandering but I’ve been
told in fact my son told me that you’ve
got to you know get on there and you
have your specified time and so on so so
let’s get on with it
mine is a slightly different take I’ve
looked at the subject off I mean I see
the majority of you sitting here see
students I see aspirations I see what am
I going to be what am I going to do he’s
a fundamental to when we are in school
or go before we go to university or even
in university this is a very very
relevant it’s a very important question
that is before us and
for me the I call it which you see up
there is realizing your potential which
is both unique and infinite so we’ll
start to get into these words one by one
potential will come to a regulator but
let’s say why unique because each one of
us is completely unique there’s not a
single person amongst billions who has
the same cornea the same fingerprint or
the same DNA
we are completely unique so that is very
important that you realize this because
we are constantly comparing that I you
know and we’re you know that I want to
be that person please realize you’ll be
unique whatever it is you are it’s very
important to realize that the second why
I say infinite this body
it’s mine it’s composed of eight billion
cells it’s a complete cosmos and it is
definitely full of infinite
possibilities we have seen that
expressed in so many people down the
years from mentioned the word Ruben
dinar to go Einstein on the other side
so we have infinite possibility so we
then
say that okay I had these two parameters
unique the possibilities are infinite
how do I discover and how do I get into
these possibilities what is the
methodology question what do you want to
be in life or what decides now we are
always I was with I was was biggest an
hour week back and I was with my if you
somewhere that kind of age group and the
first question you asked yeah I asked
you asked that young man is where are
you studying I’m studying in the
international school and what are you
gonna do or what is it that you enjoy
doing and so it’s the first question you
would always ask off anybody and he said
you know I’m not very clear you know I’m
good in maths
I like physics a little bit but
literature so and so so I asked him a
simple question I said young man there’s
a park not far from your house
ten minutes walking distance he must be
wondering what the hell is this
connection with this guy you know he’s
just come in here he’s been not even
been here 24 hours and he’s talking he’s
talking about this subject and then
talking about a park in the same breath
so I told him
have you been there no you know it’s
very cold and I I know it’s there but I
in the first morning I was there I was
in it was absolutely exquisite
the birds were chirping the colors of
fall of russets and goals was happening
there
the Sun was filtering through the trees
and and I told him I said that
ultimately to realize this you have to
change direction the centrifugal must
become same repeat the direction has to
change you must know a little bit about
nature and and so so we come to it who
finally decides certainly you’re doing
well you know that these are your
aptitudes
there are teachers who are directing you
there there will be counselors there
will be guides finally and all this is
necessary I’m for one moment not saying
I’m anti this no no it’s it’s a nice
process it’s like education itself but
are they really the final are they
really going to decide where you’re
going to be who knows this and then we
come to the next part which is the only
person who really knows you is yourself
so now we start touching upon what is
called or turn to be a highly complex
subject to me it’s amazingly simple and
therefore I will you know so I will pick
up the threads and move on to this thing
what is this journey who is this the
world did you or me not we understand
itself what is this and how do you
really get to it
so this particular talk is is getting is
going to be a little bit of a journey
and it’s not a journey which has to do
with dogmas theories and so on so forth
it is an experience Roger and it’s a
journey
which came upon me I didn’t undertake
that job so I will I will as we go along
try and share a little bit of something
which you may find maybe a little
abstract may be expressed in metaphors
you know it’s 1+1 to know so we talked
about the quest for the self right
now let’s start to when we start to look
an approach a subject I think we need to
have a certain language a certain syntax
so I say first learn the art of
listening what is this let’s say for
example I’m speaking and just as those
words have reached you you have
sometimes either accepted or rejected
them straight away listening or deep
listening is something else
it means don’t interfere whether is what
is coming through to you you have plenty
of time later to say I accept it or I
reject it but first let it come which
means that you need to reduce the amount
of noise going on inside the head at any
given moment and then you receive what
is coming later on you can you can take
your call whether it’s something
acceptable to you or not
awareness you become you should become
extremely aware and that awareness comes
through being in that moment you always
find this mind is always somewhere else
it’s never here it’s always on the other
bank that’s the very nature so you need
to be aware means you need to be in the
moment
third experience this is what I said
that there are lots of things that we
can talk there about words there about
theories dogmas doctrines but there is
one thing which we call experiential
which is something that you have
experienced only then are you really
qualified to speak about it and then
existence this journey we are talking
about is not divergent from life it’s
very much part of mainstream life it’s
about it’s it goes alongside we always
tend to say that look if you are going
to go on this kind of a search it’s
at the cost of this you have to forsake
this no it’s very much part of our
everyday life it’s very much part of the
journey that we have so it’s not a
divergent journey that we need to
undertake we move on come to the subject
off as we start were to go deeper let’s
get into the four eyes and particularly
for the kids there
first of all intellect what is intellect
because we certainly get into the
dictionary but let’s get a little deeper
into what is the meaning of the
intellect intellect deals with something
which has been given to you which has
been borrowed right from the time you
were born to the present stage that you
are whether it came from parents it came
from teachers it came from it ultimately
comes in life it comes from universities
it will come from bosses it will come
from books it will come from media but
it is something completely borrowed none
of this is your own power we come to the
next one
instinct this is a word which has been
pushed into the basement we’ve added a
prefix to it whenever we use the word
instinct there’s a prefix of animal
added to it we’ve forgotten what this
word is this is something you have been
born it’s intrinsically auditory now
let’s let’s start to look at what does
it really mean let’s say
I feel hungry I eat food when my body
says I need food I eat food that’s what
the animal does also feeling hungry will
eat food doesn’t require food for the
next two or three days will not eat but
us it’s not so we do not live things
because he leaves things absolutely
leaves things absolutely to the body the
body says I want to eat I respond with
us the issue starts – the problem starts
when it moves from awareness of the body
that we get to it goes to the mind so
things of the body when they start
moving to the mind then start all the
problems that we have they come out of
repression and we see it all around us
you look at it today you have such a
high degree of depression of mental
illness a lot of it happens when you are
actually pushing things to the mind
which have no business to be there
there are things of the heart even there
there are things with the body leave
them there and and they settle down but
we push everything up there and that’s
where you find the clamor and all the
noise there it’s very interesting for
you kids that one day just pick up a
paper and a pencil lock yourself in the
room for half an hour and simply jot
down whatever thought comes into your
head don’t hold it back don’t try and
censor it don’t carry whatever comes
just note it down I will tell you and I
can promise you that you will never show
that paper to anybody it is for the
first time that you will start to get an
idea of what’s going on here it makes
you aware of what’s really going on here
it will surprise you some good and will
shock you is this what’s going on in my
head
it’s very important third one we come to
his intelligence now this is something
again born with us and the more and the
quieter you become intelligent starts to
surface and intelligence the pinnacle of
intelligence is that you come to number
four which is intuition now for the
first time something there is a
possibility of something which is not
borrowed emerging we call it creativity
you can call it anything but the bottom
line is this that this is the first time
that there is a possibility of something
that is going to come which is not
borrowed from somewhere else
I will being an architect I will take
you through a little journey because
when you when you go to a particular
site and this particular site was an
alley bug I was to do a house for
industrialist and when you normally ask
a person that when you go to a site what
do you do oh you have this vision that I
want things to look like this and this
is how I visualize things for me
and I will step back five and a half
decades at least so that I’m your age
you can now begin to gauge my age okay I
was born in the Himalayas in the
mountains and I spent my entire
childhood there it’s important because I
told you I’ll talk to you about a
journey and I was surrounded by nature
every day I would ride a horse they were
hardly any motor cars on the road it’s a
very strange and bizarre scenario that
you can paint in you know you can
picture surrounded by nature surrounded
by fruit orchards you wake up sometimes
early morning and everything had turned
white and somewhere disconnect is trying
to understand nature and I use this word
very you know very freely is that I fell
in love with nature it’s all around me
and I fell in love with it and when you
fall in love I think some of you have to
wait a little bit to do that you you
want to get closer and you want to
understand this language at this point
there was intervention and I will not go
into the details of it but to
communicate with nature the only
language is that of silence it’s
extremely important to understand this
word it is not the absence of external
noise is the absence of noise inside so
if you have you want to be close to
nature you want to embrace nature and
the language of communication because
you wanted so badly is silence I would
like to steer clear and I would of the
esoteric
but let it suffice but this enquiry this
quest that we talked about as we started
for the self there’s more than 5000
years ago at least recorded so it’s not
something I have conjured up it’s not
something I have contributed or bought
here it’s been around so there are and
it’s very interesting
112 known methods of meditation 112 but
that’s a complex subject this kid let’s
make it simple the common thread the
common thing there is witnessing that’s
all we simply become a witness your
awareness heightens and you become a
witness so you go through that process
and you finally realize that as you come
closer to nature that you are part of it
you’re not divergent from it very much
part of it we are always trying to
dominate nature we’re always trying to
you know but we don’t understand that we
are an intrinsic part of it it is then
but when you come close to nature but
you actually come close to the self it’s
at that point that you’ll find that a
lot of burden on you of making choices
of stress you know you develop a lot of
inner strength you become fearless so
all of these qualities come in which
help you determine where you will
finally go for me this was the journey
and I will explain to you that coming to
a site does this really work this kind
of thinking does it really work so let’s
go to a site I go to a site and I see
hundreds of trees I go to a site not as
an architect or it’s a designer but I go
there with reverence I go there I would
walk a couple of hours went around I saw
the trees I saw there were a few bald
spots between the trees which would give
me the only possibility of building
because to cut a tree his heresy would
never step on me I would I looked at the
Sun how it moved through in those couple
of hours you know how the Sun trajectory
is going you understand what are the
water sources there were two wells on
the site and how I would be able to be
self-sustaining so you actually realize
that you went there I went there or I go
there without baggage completely I don’t
go there with an idea but this is what I
want to do I go there completely blank
and I go there with the reverence that I
go with true nature and saying okay
please guide me now that I am here and
from then on we if you see the diagram
on the right here bald spots picked up
on the site connected through and that’s
where we said that we had the
possibility to construct
how and what do you do when you start to
approach the design process here the
next part after looking at all the
parameters which I call sustainability
directly connected in nature then we
start to look at what is the memory of
the place what is the meaning of memory
memory means how did they traditionally
build here
high rainfall areas what kind of local
materials were there they use clay tiles
it’s it’s typical Konkan architecture it
was wood clay tiles and so on so you
really gotten to understanding that how
they were rebuilt which was completely
sustainable now that also looks at
things clay you know climatically it
looks at insulation it looks at the
amount of light coming through it also
looks at deep shaded spaces which you
need in the tropical climate and so on
so all of this is actually the memory of
the place which you begin to start to
filter through and begin to sort of
induct into the matrix that you call
design so over time you find there are
layers that start to have there is a
layer of sustainability there’s a layer
of memory and layer of function after
all the client says this is what I need
and all these various layers start to
pile up one on top of the other and
still there is no design because
somewhere through this you begin to see
an image start to appear maybe faint but
start to appear so so what does the what
does the architect had been doing all
along what is what have I been doing all
along and actually become a catalyst if
you ask me that if you got all these
influences and you did this what what on
earth have you done you know but I have
become a catalyst something else is
dictating this whole process it’s moving
through nature moves through you do
become the catalyst so we move on now we
we started to look at the fact that when
you look at the tree what does it say
it’s got
a trunk and it’s got branches it has
minimum impact upon the ground so our
entire structural system is based and
inspired by the tree we all see these
trees you know every day we see them but
there are things that when I just said
you get close to it then you view it in
a completely different way so we looked
at that and we looked at very slender
supports hitting the ground and from
their tree like branches that support
the roofs now this also means minimum
intrusion onto the ground because when
we say sustainable
I don’t also also I don’t also want to
dig the entire ground up so we simply
come to a particular point and then from
there take the branches and they hold
the roof there and this particular slide
shows that and somewhere where the tree
is growing and it’s growing through the
roof when it grows through the roof you
know so the question always comes what
came first the house of the tree which
is wonderful sustainability on water and
how do you handle the wells that are
there how do you charge the wells during
the rains and so on so forth
how do you make this house sustainable
completely sustainable under water so
you can look at the diagrams which where
you can see how the the water charging
systems and so on so for made I’ve not
get too much into details but the idea
is that when you talk about
sustainability it’s not a myth it’s not
something out there it’s not leads
rating it’s not points it’s it’s really
about a lot of common sense cease to
exist and we would have lost an immense
amount of wealth and richness that we
have in the tapestry and the
possibilities that we have
okay so whilst so this is what we did
and as he puts so I’ve got a two-minute
clip of what happened with this place
you know that I’ve given you the inputs
this is how we approach the concept and
so on so forth this is how nature came
through and I’ll give you a little bit
to see the images of what happened as I
walk away from this house
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so I’ll ask you one question at the end
of this that I leave it to you to decide
that that what was my contribution to
this
I said learnt the art of listening go
there and I saw everything I worked in
consonants with nature I I kept myself
that reordered I came without baggage I
came without preconceived notions and
this can only only happen if you start
they said to move into silence and then
into the cells
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