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Born
in Poona, 1967, graduated from Sir J.J. College of Architecture,
Bombay in 1989. After a year of working in Bombay, Anupama
moved to Auroville. Anupama explores through her work,
eco-friendly and energy-efficient alternatives to the
present building trend, to develop options appropriate
to the present state of our environment. After a period
of work in Berlin, since her return in 1995, Anupama
is the chief executive of KOLAM, an architecture
unit of Auroville, with a team of twelve persons engaged
in the research, design as well as construction of the
projects undertaken.
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Anupama
demonstrates in her own house a range of six
roofing technologies that are the regular
RCC alternatives with the aim of reducing the
use of high energy materials like steel
and concrete.
The
brick masonry is characterized by the use of achakal,
the local village brick that has dimensions of
19,
10 and 3 cms.
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