Inhabiting Hybridity is an architectural response to the postcolonial concept of ‘cultural hybridity’ through a syncretism of British and Indian cultures. The film 'Letters from the Middle-Ground' tells the story of the search for a spatial language, depicting the migrant’s experience of being rooted in many places at once.

The project is located at the Prime Meridian line in Greenwich, a landmark described as both the centre of world time, but also a political decision that labelled the East as ‘other’. The building deconstructs this line; it is a poetic antithesis to a world divided in two halves, creating a fertile third space where cultural hybridity is unleashed.

Given the abstract and undefined nature of hybridity, the building is shown in constant transition. The film’s protagonist experiments with different typologies of imagined hybrid spaces – spatially illustrating architectures that reference historical Indian architectural motifs and miniature paintings. Stone, a signifier of identity and permanence in both cultures, is used as a transcendental material. The resulting architecture is a hybrid of Britain and India, the past and present, the real and imagined.