Commissioned for the 2015 Kartik Puja festival, the pavilion of canopies commemorated fifty years of inclusion of indigenous forest tribes into the broader community.

Inspired by the pilgrimage through forested terrain in search of divinity, the design offered a symbolic spatial journey. Visitors entered a shaded realm of abstracted foliage—canopies of undulating fabric that mirrored the dense, tangled vegetation of a forest.

These were organized over a mandala-like grid of nineteen circular discs, each 10 feet in diameter, arranged within a 60-foot-wide circle. Each disc was supported by composite bamboo posts rising 20 feet high, creating a structural field of verticals anchoring the experience.

The project marked a shift in community engagement—where for the first time, many recognized the installation not simply as decoration, but as a meaningful spatial story. The Pavilion of Canopies thus stood as both a visual spectacle and a vessel of cultural memory—an ephemeral temple for collective reflection and celebration.