TRIBAL MUSEUM, BHOPAL

2.TRIBAL MUSEUM, BHOPAL INTRODUCTION:- SITE PLAN:

•The museum of tribal heritage at Bhopal was
LOCATION :- commissioned by the government of Madhya Pradesh in
Madhya Pradesh Tribal Museum Shyamala Hills, Bhopal
2004.
462002, Madhya Pradesh, INDIA.
•The museum is designed to create a built fabric which the
tribal communities could identify with, extend, and evolve,
to represent themselves and express their own ideas and
way of life with ease and spontaneity.
• While the architecture of the museum is inspired by tribal
rhythms, geometries, materials, forms, aesthetics and •The site is developed
spatial consciousness, on the contours of
•These very qualities are now acting as points of inspiration shyamala hills,
for the Bhopal.
•Display materials being created by tribal artisans, • The staff and visitors
supported by anthropologists, sociologists and social area has been
workers. segregated and the
main entry was
designed at first floor.

•NAME: Tribal museum, Bhopal

•OWNER: Government of Madhya Pradesh.
•ESTABLISHED: 2004.
•ACTIVITY: Museum & gallery.
•AREA: 7 acres. CLIMATE ANALYSIS:-
•ARCHITECT: KAMATH DESIGN STUDIO • Macro-climate: Hot & Dry
•CONNECTIVITY: • Average temperature: 25.1 degree C
•AIRPORT- (Chandigarh) :14.2kms. • Maximum temperature: 40.8 degree C SITE DISTRIBUTION: AREA DISTRIBUTION:
•RAILWAY STATION: 8.0kms. • Minimum temperature: 10.7 degree C
•BUSSTAND: 6.9kms. • Annual Precipitation: 1132mm
• Prevailing Wind direction: 12Km/h south-West

Sun path of Bhopal Prevailing wind direction

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ZONING CIRCULATION: FLOOR PLANS:

Ticket counter

Entry for gallery

GROUND FLOOR PLAN

•ZONING:
•The museum is segregated between public
and administrative spaces.
•Continuity of the spaces is maintained to
integrate spaces throughout horizontal
zoning.
•Administrative and workshop is placed at
lower levels while public area like exhibitions
galleries, auditorium and restaurants are
placed at upper level in vertical zoning.
•CONCEPT PLAN:
•The museum is designed to create a built
fabric which the tribal communities could
identify with, extend, and evolve, to
represent them and express their own ideas
and way of life with ease and spontaneity.
•CIRCULATION:
•At entrance a person has 2 choices whether
to go the museum display or the warehouse.
•After entering the main museum circulation
path has been defined to make visitors go to
through the same passage and experience
the whole museum.
•A separate passage way has been defined
for the people with the office related work.
•Special care has been taken for the
movement of the physically challenged
visitors.
•A central area for seating for the fatigue.
•Central area was created around the small FIRST FLOOR PLAN
manmade lake with ducks which makes the
view quite relaxing. CAFETERIA
•FLOOR PLANS:
•The well planned campus is divided into
6 galleries depicting cultural diversity,
Tribal life, Tribal Art, Tribal Mythology,
Tribal’s of Chhattisgarh and Tribal
games.
•It also has Art Exhibition Gallery and
Open air theater Entry for admin area Open Air Theatre.
•All the artefacts in Galleries are ARTEFACTS
majorly taken from 7 major and most STORE Tribal work LIBRARY SEATOUT
important tribes of state namely Gond,
Bheel, Korku, Kol, Bharia, Baiga and
saharia.
•The main entrance was at first floor and
Entry for museum it connects ground floor through ramps.

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Elevations & Sections
•The museum’s elevation has been beautifully
depicted through tribal paintings and carving to
relate it to the tribal huts.
•The contours of the site play an important role in
the veritcal zoning of the museum.
•The roof truss is made up of long span steel
structures.
Sectional elevation
Side elevation
Sectional elevation of gallery
MATERIALS:
•The structure is built of steel tubes, castellated
girders, and steel rods fabricated into intricate
trusses. Steel seemed to be a natural choice in the
land & location of ancient iron age & bronze age
civilization and the contemporary truck body
industry.
•The walls use both local stone left exposed and
brick plastered with crushed stone on the outside
and mud plaster on the inside.
•The roofs are made of half- round tiles, galvalum
sheets and concrete with a topping of hrrass and
ground cover
•Artificial lighting is used strategically in the tribal museum.
•Spot lighting and task lighting is used particularly rather than ambient lighting.
•To balance shadows and luminance is easily checked by artificial lighting in the
museum.
Clay pots use for display Use of bamboo for shading
INFERENCES:
•After going through the whole study the tribal heritage museum appears to be a
Use of stone on facade Use of wood for furniture transformation of a concept to reality in its purest form.
•It serves as an example to me and many of us of how architecturally an impact can
be created by complementing the site.
•Keeping to the same through how much it is important to obey with the site.
•It also show cases some of the finest examples of a channelized movement pattern
in activities and how the play of transition spaces can develop and maintain the
interest of the user throughout the journey of the space.
MERITS:
Plaster of Paris Use of wood for Artifacts •It is a clear example of site responsive architecture and how contours are to be
LIGHTING: treated as a boon to site.
•Courtyards puncture the built mass, bringing in light •The incorporation of open and semi open spaces serves as means of developing an
and air, while enabling the roof forms to establish interest and maintaining it.
modulated scales and compositions. •Segregation of spaces according to activities is done very efficiently.
•Perforated lighting is also used to illuminate the •The replication of heritage by show casing the lifestyle through the means of
spaces. proper interior designing by using material suiting to that context and incorporating
•Bamboos are used for providing shades in corridor. it by tribal artisans only have added more essence to the concept, as a whole it is an
experience worth learning.
Perforated lighting
•Dormitory are provided for artists.
DEMERITS:
Firefighting is an important issue while treating public buildings but there is no such
Provision for it in the whole scenario of space.
Seating should be provide in galleries for elderly persons.
Courtyard
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