Architecture Experience Centre

Introduction
Though the system of construction and creating meaning out of spaces has
started long back from Indus valley civilization before Christ, there had not
been a place to enter the lost tracks and experience the evolution of spaces,
functions and meanings. This is an attempt to expose such architectural secrets
to the whole world.

"This idea is important because in India, we just don't celebrate our architects
and their art the way we do arts, poetry or music".

Research Statement

Investigate the evolutions of Architecture in a place from pre historic times to

current era and re-establishing all major elements, events and entities that
speaks its time.

Aim

Create an experience centre where people can experience time, space and
matter. It serves as the state of art centre for the architecture discipline which
strives to raise the awareness and celebrates Architecture. It argues that how
buildings have served as representational models that symbolises an era, the
engrained beliefs of the society and its aspirations.

Scope

 Reintroduce the ancient Architecture (Elements, Events and Entities).

 Creating the value for space by its function.
 New economic generation to the city (International tourism).

Limitations

 Filtering the historic evolution of architecture with respect to a place

where drastic transformation have happened in major culture and
buildings and its functions.
  Restrict the zone of study to 10-50Km radium to gather information.

Background study

 Choosing relevant site with major historical events happened.

 Phases of Architecture in India with respect to that place.
 History and future direction of Architecture of the place.
 Architecture elements, functions and its sequence of evolution.
 Experience centre all around the world.

literature study

 Victoria & albert museum architecture gallery, London.

 Canadian center for architecture, Canada.
 Deutsches Architektur museum, Germany.
 cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine, Paris.

Case study

 Chhatrapati shivaji vastu museum Mumbai.

 Virasat-e-Khalsa, Punjab.
 National museum, delhi.

Special study

 Modern Architecture.
 Parametric Form.

Site location

 Mahatma Jyoti Rao Phule Marg Area, India Gate, New Delhi, Delhi
110001.

Site area
Total area: 50,572.75 m² (544,366.56 ft²)

Total distance: 1.03 km (3,381.33 ft)

Site features
Coordinates:   28°37'4"N   77°14'1"E

 Travancore Palace  0.7 km
 MS Apartments  0.7 km
 D.A.V.P  1 km
 Indira Gandhi Centre for Art and Culture  1.5 km
 MInistry Of Youth Affairs & Sports  1.9 km
 Ministry of HRD, Gate No.6, C' Block, Ist Floor  1.9 km
 Ministry of Corporate Affairs  1.9 km
 DOT  2.1 km
 N Block  2.1 km
 YMCA  2.5 km
 Princess Officers Homes  0.1 km
 Patiala House court and campus  0.3 km
 Baroda House (Northern Railways Headquarters)  0.4 km
 August Kranti Maidan  0.4 km
 India Gate Complex  0.6 km
 Lady Irwin school  1 km

Site justification

 Most vital place in Indian history that had changed its mask from
Indraprastha to New Delhi with various kingdoms, Cultures, Arts evolved
in-between and evolving even today.
  Tourist population in Delhi.

Foreign Tourist arrivals in

Indicator
Delhi

2007 2018848
2011 22159925
2012 2345980
2013 2301395
2014 2319046
2015 2379169
*Source : India Tourism Statistics Report

Note: Foreign tourist arrivals refer to the number of arrivals of tourists/visitors. An individual
who makes multiple trips to the country is counted each time as a new arrival. As per data
available for the last 10 years, no. of Tourist arrived in Delhi (domestic as well as foreign)
gradually increases over the years showing that the tourist places in Delhi attracts more &
more people nationally & internationally. Promotion of tourism in Delhi by the Tourism
Department also plays a vital role in increase in tourism related activities in Delhi. 10% of
the total foreign tourists visited Delhi during the year 2015. During the year 2015, Arrival of
tourists availing e-Tourist Visas was highest in Delhi among all the states/ UTs of India.

Project justification

OUTLOOK, The News Scroll.

INDIA TODAY.
17 APRIL 2017  Last Updated at 7:34 PM | SOURCE: PTI.

A brainchild of GREHA (ENVIRONMENTAL DEVELOPMENT, HABITAT DESIGN AND

ARCHITECTURE), a Delhi-based non-profit knowledge-based society, the National
Museum for Architecture was first pitched at a meeting of architects, engineers, artists,
planners and academics in September, 2014 in the capital.

The proposal, which was supported by bodies such as the Indian Institute of Architects
(IIA) and the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH) right from the
start, has now found new collaborators – including the Indian Institute of Interior
Designers (IIID) and the Institute of Landscape and Architects (ISOLA).
Methodology

Stage 1

 Problem statement.
 Data collection.

Stage 2

 Case Study research on architecture evolution.

 Case study on Museum and Experience centre architecture
 Site Study.
 Site Analysis.

Stage 3

 Conceptual Design.

Stage 4

 Intermediate Design.

Stage 5

 Final Design.

Requirements

 As in any centre like gallery, there will be a permanent collection

consisting of architectural drawings, photographs, models, samples of
relevant architectural products and elements, video/films showing the
processes of construction and the life of the building site, biographical
data of architects, builders, artisans, and master craftsmen, from
different time periods which constitute our history.

Other activites beside display

 The collection will be amplified by a series of events, like specially

curated shows, exhibitions of the works of significant architects,
thematic architectural fairs, guided tours of architectural works - both
historic and contemporary exemplars, workshops for special groups,
 especially school children, and symposia for the professional community
to include allied disciplines like engineering and social sciences.

Spaces are,

 Gallery.
 Scale model display area.
 Storage (heavy, light).
 Permanent & temporary exhibition.
 Audio guide/ Motion sensor Technology/ Audio visual display.
 Library.
 Museum Shops.
 Auditorium.
 Oat.
 Food court.
 Toilets.
 Administrative.
 Children’s section with recreation & interactive Exhibits on History.
 Resource centre.
 Classrooms
 Workshops & Training programme.

The overarching principle in such collaborations and events will be to make

the public at large more aware of the special qualities of the architectural
enterprise, its physical manifestations and its guiding spirit, its potential to
benefit society, and the intrinsic relationship of the man-made with natural
systems.

Conclusion

Developing the centre for Experiencing the evolution of Indian Architecture

and thereby educating the people about their own heritage value.

I believe that the experience centre can provide the matrix for such
motivation and inspiration to emerge from a deep understanding of the
history of our own architecture and its relevance and place in contemporary
conditions.