IT is a weekend house in Alibag, Maharashtra, India. Indian architect Rahul Mehrotra has purposely designed a house for filmmakers. The walls of this building are built of stones and its facade reminds us of a flying saucer. In the middle lies a long corridor with windows on both sidesas an air circulation regulator to cool the rooms.

The shape of the house is hard to define. To Tempo, Amanda Achmadi, a lecturer at Tongji University, Shanghai, pra