{"id":1687,"date":"2021-11-17T19:19:39","date_gmt":"2021-11-17T18:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antonioperazzi.com\/progetti\/laheria-jaipur-india\/"},"modified":"2021-11-17T19:19:39","modified_gmt":"2021-11-17T18:19:39","slug":"laheria-jaipur-india","status":"publish","type":"progetti","link":"https:\/\/antonioperazzi.com\/en\/projects\/laheria-jaipur-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Laheria &#8211; Jaipur, India"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Designing the landscape around, inside and over a four-buildings complex in Jaipur was a true dream for me, because I have enjoyed a special connection with the country ever since I was a child, thanks to my mother. Even today, I still return there several times a year even when I am not going for some project, in the company of my children. Jaipur is an educated, chaotic city, that successfully keeps its spirit despite its fast development. Leading Western and Indian architects have engaged with it for quite some time now, and I must thank Studio OBR for introducing me to our client in this enthralling modern project. I find it charming to work in this country whilst breathing in its national pride, respect for heritage and craftsmanship, that cannot but be a source of inspiration, foundation pillars even when tending to maximum modernity: this is India. Actually, the first thing we did was to study Rajasthan\u2019s artistic potential, not just in abstract terms, but through on-site research, visiting monuments, workshops, places, quarries, museums, to understand how craftsmen, gardeners work and how gardens function, that breathe through the scent of flowers during monsoons and must provide shelter during the long dry spells. It would have been a losing proposition to build a garden in Jaipur without harvesting the wisdom of millennia of understanding of the pace and reasons of the territory. Hence, studying the local flora was fundamental: this is why I decided to recreate a new system of gardens inspired by the colours of the landscape, and by the theme of Laheria decorations, the wave. The wavy motion of wind, that engraves, consumes, etches, draws, and colours all things: from the printed designs of turbans coloured with saffron, khejri and indigo, to the zigzagging patterns in the windows of the havelis or the carvings on the maharaja\u2019s palaces. Rajasthan\u2019s landscape, however, is characterised by hard-to-find plants, so as soon as we started construction we also established a nursery to produce the same wild plants that our garden needs: to blend into the desert landscape surrounding the city, we need to start by growing special plants, such as orange caper bushes (Capparis decidua) or the lovely \u2013 and rare \u2013 roheda plants, Tecomella undulata: a Bignoniaceae with extremely hard wood and yellow, red, and orange flowers, just like the saris worn by the extremely elegant Indian farmers. The architectural project is designed by OBR.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1309,"template":"","class_list":["post-1687","progetti","type-progetti","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antonioperazzi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/progetti\/1687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/antonioperazzi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/progetti"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/antonioperazzi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/progetti"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antonioperazzi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antonioperazzi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}