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The project was a question on relevance? The relationship between a particular architectural style, time, context and its repetition in this society, which is heavily media, dictated. The built form in its style questioned its relevance in the time and context in which it was conceived and executed and the connecting mass in the center questioned its own relevance amidst the already irrelevant mass. The brief demanded a Victorian style residence. After tedious attempt to convince the client of its irrelevance, the project was perceived as an installation which would question the idea of relevance.

The built form was designed as two parts, the guest and living spaces in front and the personal spaces behind. These spaces were designed in Victorian style in terms of their architectural elements, scale and planning principles. Then the two blocks were connected by means of a contrasting transparent glass and steel volume, giving an illusion of irrelevance in the existing Victorian mass.

While the viewers questioned the relevance of the central glass and steel mass amidst the Victorian architectural style. The glass and steel mass questions the popularity and existence of these imagery replicas in the todays time.