The Script explores the entanglement of cinema, aspiration, and architecture, and how collective dreams and desires actively construct place. Drawing from Field Architects’ dual contexts of Ladakh and Mumbai, the pavilion positions itself between two contrasting worlds: the slow, grounded, communal act of building embedded in the Himalayan landscape, and the restless, vertical, aspirational rise of Mumbai’s cinematic metropolis.
Suspended between these realities, the pavilion becomes a spatial transcript, a cinematic frame through which to read the city’s shifting imaginations. It reflects on how urban desire, shaped and amplified through cinema, reverberates far beyond the metropolis, imprinting itself upon fragile territories such as Ladakh, where it subtly reshapes cultural practices, spatial aspirations, and ecological balance.
Conceived not as a fixed object but as a vessel, The Script resists singular form. Instead, it operates as an open framework capable of assembly, dismantling, and reconfiguration, allowing multiple spatial narratives to emerge over time. Its adaptable structure invites sculptures, installations, performances, and graphic works to inhabit it, enabling the pavilion to host diverse artistic expressions across themes and media.
Through this capacity for transformation, the pavilion acquires multiple lives beyond its initial context, embodying architecture not as a static artifact, but as an evolving cultural stage, one that continually rewrites its own script through changing inhabitation, interpretation, and collective imagination.
