Robin Kurian Abraham

Lead, Ecological Restoration programme, The Habitats Trust

Robin Kurian Abraham

(Clockwise from left) A standard modern office space with surfaces that are exactly 2D (walls, partitions) or 3D (pillars, workstations), while an 11th-century temple has repetitive patterns at different scales transcending into fractal dimensional space adorning all its surfaces and that when placed amidst expansive slab flooring, accentuates the primary structure. A forest stream has the capacity to cycle carbon, water and all other constituents between the subsurface and atmosphere along with biotic productivity and recycling whilst maintaining a visual harmony about it, while a stream flowing through an average Indian city is straight-jacketed with restraining walls thus removing any inherent fractal features that come with its natural meander and at the same time reducing it functionally to a sewage canal prone to flooding during the monsoons. Photos: Robin Kurian Abraham

Redesigning cities: Intersection of geometry, perception and urban well-being in India

Robin Kurian Abraham

30 Oct 2023

4 min read