WHAT IS A MUSEUM?

Design Question

Why do museums represent the art and not the artist? Why just the finished product and not the process? We usually see the museum as a very finished and complete space but can it be a place to explore the process as well?

Design Intention

The museum is imagined to become a space for exhibiting artistic and artisanal processes. The design considers a museum as a live-work space. A place that artisans can inhabit and use as a studio while people can come to watch and also learn the art with them.

Site Analysis

The dilapidated area of the rural village industry of Khadi Gram Udyog is chosen as the site. It is a quiet lane, located in the middle of a dense urban residential fabric. It sites the ruins of old factories and warehouses, a Gandhi museum, and dense wilderness.

Located In a Dense Residential Urban Fabric the museum is a secluded lane.

The existing buildings are randomly arranged on sides of a linear road

They are mostly buildings of production, storage and packaging and one museum

Vegetation and Site Conditions-Due to lack of maintenance the site is overgrown and has heavy vegetation

Currently the movement is only linear and the only stopping points are the nursery and museum

To imagine a space that connects these existing spaces makes them the museum and introduces a new language between them.

Museum Of?

A museum of craft workshops and artists. A place of living and learning.

Museum As?

The intent is to build a museum of connectors and pavilions -between the ruins on the existing site, between the artists and people. To let people connect to the site and the processes of the artforms as well.

Using the spatial qualities of National Crafts Museum, Delhi and Uffizi Gallery in Florence the collage intends to represent the ideas of connectors and courtyards.

The idea of porosity and movement and the concept of workshops/working space.

Design Development

The design started as a pavilion space connecting all the existing ruins and factories. On the basis of analysis of site vegetation and existing conditions, and new movements; the qualities of designed spaces were modified.

Initial Iterations- not creating a new language becoming very linear

Adding curves and loops to add an element of fun and create a new language between existing structures

Diagrammatic Cut Plan showing existing Site Conditions

Initial Loop Iteration Diagrams

Existing and Refined Site Programmes and Movement

Changes in Existing Site

Synthesis Drawing