REVIVING OLD CITY |

Redevelopment of temple

Fourth Year Architectural Design Studio

Location: Leh, Ladakh, India

The Project : A close collective study of the city was done to discover that a lot of its sacred geography and history remains over sighted.

‘Piercing’ into the city

The project mainly aims at restoring the heritage of the old city by redirecting the tourist from the market street to the inner native city which holds a lot of structures of historic and monumental evidence.

The proposal to restructure the existing temple to regain its cultural importance and to create a landmark for the inner-city with Mani walls, prayer wheels and stupas and other historic and sacred magnets which remains neglected due to no vehicular access in the city maintain sacredness.

‘Opening’ the native city

As a part of the projects, we were supposed to term two concept words and graphically represent them to give basis to

Design Characteristic Elements

Inverted accessible dome: Breaking from the traditional lotus dome prevalent in Sikh temple architecture, attempt was made to make an inverted negative lotus dome in glass accessible by public emitting light into the hall from its inner sides.

Golden railing: A feature to give identity of a traditional temple.

Holy bath arcade:

Arches being the typical tradition of Sikh temple architecture is used as an arcade around the Holy Bath water body

Accessible terraces:

Created out of the leveled typology used, these were used as open exhibition spaces to exhibit sculpture and art of the city.

Arched punctures: These were used on the museum facade to give glimpses of existing structures holding historic and cultural value.

Elevation and Sections highlighting design elements: arched punctures, accessible inverted dome, and existing roofs used as terrace gardens

The Project

As a prerequisite to the site, the structure had to be monumental and humble at the same time thereby complimenting the existing cultural center NCPA and the most scenic pride of the city.

Taking advantage of the promenade and the piled-up tetrapod rocks, the structure was designed as anexperientialspaceattheendofthepromenade forthepedestrianstocompletetheireveningwalkwithaculturalvisit.

The elevations were designed replicating the tetrapod rocks and to magnify them to house a museum and an art gallery. An attempt is made to make the visible tetrapods into a sudden hollow experience of art.

PROGRAMS: auditorium, permanent & temporary art galleries, library with reading rooms, cafeteria, reception.

Musuem For Progressive Arts

GROUP| Magnifying Tetrapod Rocks

Third Year Architectural Design Studio

Location: Nariman Point, Mumbai, India

Tetrapods : Four legged concrete structure laid at the coast to prevent flooding and erosion of shoreline

Site plan with installation: Tetrapod museum integrating with the site.

Reading rooms

Reception sitting

Duct skylights fitted in tetrapod shaped leges emitting light into the art galleries

Reading rooms

Reading rooms

Elevation highlighting the form with smooth curves with emerging skylights in form of tetrapod legs

Stepped entrance to the reception

Library

Reception

Cafe

Auditorium Stage

Section highlighting skylights in shape of tetrapod legs emitting light into the art galleries

Smooth curves on the roof depicting the waves holding skylights in the form of tetrapod pushing out of it from all sides housing private reading rooms and art galleries, thereby integrating the museum into the site.

Skylight

Reading rooms & reception bay window