Devadhare Dining Space – Ar Senthil Kumar Doss, Play Architecture, Karnataka, India

Jury Citation: The Architect makes a very sensitive addition to the landscape. Traversing above a water course as a bridge, the architecture becomes a part of the greater landscape through a sensitive and bold gesture. The distant hills have been romanticised into the built form using brick as a form making material. The structure plays a key role – with the heaviness of the brick roof and the lightness of the spaces beneath creating an interesting duality. The tectonics of the project exploring the possibilities of brick transforms a small design brief into something more transformative.