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DLF Purseni Club Jali Screen

A custom jali — a pierced ornamental screen — for the members' club at DLF Purseni. An eight-point star locks with a cross into a continuous lattice, drawn once as clean, scalable vector so it could be cut at any size across the club's partitions and façade screens and still read as one pattern.

Client
DLF — Purseni Club
Scope
Custom jali & environmental artwork
Year
2018
Geometry
Eight-point star & cross
Role
Pattern & environmental design
The Purseni jali — an eight-point star-and-cross lattice in gold
01Overview
One geometry, every screen.

A jali is an old idea — a perforated screen that filters light and air while it decorates. The brief here was a single ornamental language the club could use everywhere: room partitions, balustrades, façade panels. So the work was less a logo than a system — one tile that could repeat forever.

An eight-point star tessellates with a slim cross to fill the plane with no seams and no leftover space, giving a warm, continuous lattice that feels traditional but is drawn with modern precision.

02The Jali
03

The Unit and the Field

A star, a cross, and the space between.

The whole pattern comes from two shapes — an eight-point star and the cross that fills the gaps between stars. Get the proportion of those two right and the tessellation does the rest, marching across any panel without a visible repeat. The single unit is the logo; the field is the building.

04

Drawn Once, Cut at Any Size

Because the jali was built as scalable vector rather than a fixed image, a single master artwork could be re-scaled and cropped for every panel format — a tall partition, a low balustrade, a wide façade run — without ever redrawing or losing crispness. One file, the whole environment.

05Related Work