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Copper House II
2009-2014
Project
File documents an executed project for a private house in Chondi, Maharashtra, India. Copper House II is the second residence of a couple from Mumbai, who visit the house for a few days each week. It is located in a dense grove of mango trees near a brook that floods each year during the monsoon. To protect the inhabitants from the encroaching landscape, the house is set on an artificial high ground made of dirt dug for a well from the site itself. The open-air courtyard at the centre of the plan is paved in black basalt stones that also allow rainwater to drain below the house.
On the ground floor, large horizontal windows are sheathed in slatted ironwood and copper mesh, providing a form of camouflage for the house while still permitting views out from the living spaces. The two boxy spaces upstairs are private: one contains a master bedroom and study, the second a smaller bedroom. The thin copper sheets that cover the upper floor are waterproof and will develop a verdigris over time, further concealing the house within its setting.
File contains drawings, photographs, models, and a video recording.
Materials in this project series were likely not arranged when they were first processed.
The reproduced notebooks (ARCH276525) are chiefly in Hindi.
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model (largest, approx.): 4,5 × 10,5 × 16 cm (1 3/4 × 4 1/8 × 6 5/16 in.) model (smallest, approx.): 3 × 7,5 × 13 cm (1 3/16 × 2 15/16 × 5 1/8 in.) case: 30,5 × 22,1 × 22,5 cm
Bijoy Jain fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Bijoy Jain/
Gift of Bijoy Jain
Model © Bijoy Jain / Photo © CCA
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Bijoy Jain fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Bijoy Jain/
Gift of Bijoy Jain
Objects that have been catalogued:
Original file name: "Copper House II_low res.mp4".
1 video recording(s)
4 min. 33 sec. : col.
Bijoy Jain fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Bijoy Jain/
Gift of Bijoy Jain
Selected scans from five notebooks containing detail drawings and calculations. File types: .jpg, .pdf
1 File
Bijoy Jain fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Bijoy Jain/
Gift of Bijoy Jain
Reproductions of digital scans from notebooks containing detail drawings and calculations (ARCH276525). The drawings
were printed by the CCA for the exhibition Rooms You May Have Missed, held at the CCA November 4, 2014-April 19, 2015.
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sheets: 25 × 17.4 cm (9 13/16 × 6 7/8 in.)
Bijoy Jain fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Bijoy Jain/
Gift of Bijoy Jain
Objects that have been catalogued:
Original file name: "MVI_0484.MOV".
1 video recording(s)
9 sec. : col.
Bijoy Jain fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Bijoy Jain/
Gift of Bijoy Jain
Notebook reproduced from digital scans (ARCH276525). Reproduction created by the CCA for the exhibition
Rooms You May Have Missed, held at the CCA November 4, 2014-April 19, 2015.
1 volume(s)
book: 25 × 20.8 cm (9 13/16 × 8 3/16 in.)
- [148] leaves, spiral bound.
Bijoy Jain fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Bijoy Jain/
Gift of Bijoy Jain
Objects that have been catalogued:
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