Museum of Telangana by Supraja Rao

Can a tree be a roof? Can a wall breathe? How do we invite light without letting in heat?

These are the questions driving the installation, which celebrates regional materials like local stone, natural wood, and living plants. Rather than drawing boundaries between indoors and outdoors, the design proposes hybrid zones, spaces that flow, soften, and give back to the environment they inhabit.

For Supraja, whose work has long engaged with themes of emotional resonance, material honesty, and context-driven design, this project marks a natural evolution. Known for homes that feel like quiet sanctuaries, her practice reflects a deep commitment to spaces that respond, to people, to place, and to climate. Stone and Shade extends this ethos outward, into the landscape, and asks what happens when interiors and ecology speak the same language.
At its heart, the exhibition is a meditation on protection, not just from sun or rain, but from the sensory overload of contemporary life. It challenges us to think about how we build, what we use, and who we are building for. In a time marked by environmental urgency and urban compression, Stone and Shade offers a timely provocation: Can our homes, like trees, become acts of generosity?