Showroom in Silvassa

Located in Silvassa, about a two hours drive north of Mumbai, this showroom for a well known marble factory attempts to break away from the typical typology of showrooms in the region. Rather than resort to using standard office and gallery-like spaces to display various types of marble tiles and slabs, we decided to think of the showroom as a marble quarry - a large rectangular box (entirely clad in marble) with voids cut out from its volume to reveal its interiors. Here, a constant play between solid and void, light and shade dominate the layout of the showroom allowing visitors to see, touch and feel entire surfaces (walls, floors, slabs) composed of different types and finsihes of marble.