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                Built                Sarovar Bodhgaya - Hospitality
           Creative School - Education
           Gallery 7 - Exhibition Design
           Restroom - Renovation

        
                Ideas               Earthing Interiority
              Rendering Visibility
              Echoes of Play      
              Garden of Learning
              Bodies to Objects
              Theatre for Life
              Community Center
              The Machine
              The Boat Club  
              IJberg Dwelling                     



Gallery 7

Exhibition Design - Museum    

2019
SJK Architects
Location: Koba, Gujrat
Area: 75000 sq.ft , Phase: Construction
Involvement: Design Development, Liason with Museum Consultants



Images Courtesy SJK Architects



The Jain Heritage Museum is a building that draws its plan from the Mandala, but lifts itself off the ground completely on stilts with a shallow water body in the centre within which the existing neem trees nestle. The building draws all its light and ventilation from this shaded and filtered courtyard and presents a calm lime plastered exterior with inlaid Jain graphics and glass jharokhas. The internal skin of the building facing the courtyard is entirely composed of vertical louvers of white marble jali that bring in the air and ventilation in a highly modulated manner responding to simulated studies on sun and wind paths.

Plan 
Process 




There are a number of galleries in the Museum each focusing on the extensive collection of miniatures, exquisite bronzes and rare scrolls among other things.  
While on this project I was involved in the design development for the The Ratna Pratima gallery  - Gallery 7, which is the largest and is to house gemstone  idols . I had the chance to discuss designs and work with the principal architect for the same . The Design idea for this gallery was to create the most dramatic of spaces and it being a dark gallery, the play with lights and creating different spacial experiences allowed for some drama to seep in. Production of 3d views , renders  , Layout development, Display case designs and meetings with the Museum consultants  , presentations for the client was done while on this project.