PHOTOS: Tall Storey, an exhibition on high-rise productions in India and Korea

Korean Cultural Center India is running an exhibition 'Tall Storey' at its centre which will be on view till January 3, 2020.The exhibition is a documentation of high – rise production in India and Korea and is envisaged and curated by Yang Seunghee, Urbanist and Manasvini Hariharan, architect and urban planner. The entry is open for all. Korea and India are two peninsulas in Asia but have significantly different geography, climate, scale and culture – a difference that is reflected in its traditional architecture. Two countries whose traditions of housing were easily distinguishable merely a century ago, now have the high-rise apartment as a common expression in mainstream housing construction.

Updated on: Nov 29, 2019 3:23 PM IST

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Tall Storey documents housing production in the two capital sister cities - Seoul and Delhi.

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While differentiating a hanok from a haveli is obvious, it is difficult to do the same with a high-rise apartment in Seoul and one in Delhi.

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This homogeneity of housing typology, which is drastically different from the situation just a century ago, is what we present in Tall Storey.

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The exhibition presents various maps, images, film and miniatures of various houses of India and Korea.

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Looking at cities through just its road network allows one to look at its urban fabric through a different lens.

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The exhibition also had a short film on high-rise production in Seoul .

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Often in cities, building footprints alone can help form the map lines are usually drawn. Building footprints tells about the density of cities and metropolises.