Construction Documentation Set

Museum: A museum is a public or private institution dedicated to the goal of collecting historical objects, knowledge creation, and knowledge dissemination. By seeing space as common ground between architecture and museology, and so between the museum building and its display, we can illuminate the individuality of each museum and the distinctive experience it offers - for example, how some museums create a sense of personal exploration, while others are more intensely didactic, and how the visit in some cases is transformed into a spatial experience and in other cases into a more social event.

REFERENCE:

CEPT Library

Hungarian Museum of Architecture and Fotomuseum

The Salk Institute

Museum for Architectural Drawing

While referring to these famous concrete structures it gave me an idea of giving my structure a basement since it's a hot & dry climate it would be feasible to make it cooler. The idea of connectivity through balcony-like pocket spaces. The formation of grids or called blocks which constitute space. The different patterns and textures on the wall expressing history were very much interesting since making a museum itself as a monument.

INTENT & GEOMETRY

Geometry

Thinking upon the idea of form and experience of the structure, firstly the cubic shapes were stacked upon each other having different patterns and textures surrounded by trees.

Massing with the help of blocks

Arriving to form

The massing of individual spaces with idea of stacking and generating pocket spaces.

The foot print of the structure is in landscape taking in maximum northern light it could.

The structure then came out with the half of ground floor being underground making the space cozy since the surrounding space would be lift up. The thinking of openings have not been thought yet but mainly the spacing of the area are looked through the connectivity of public and private areas. The corridor spaces are open towards the west since the wind is mainly from West direction.

The machine Equipment space is kept down in the basement since it would be difficult to carry heavy-duty machines on the upper floor and also the textile is in the basement to save it from harsh sunlight and it could have a calm environment to not get spoiled.

The 1st floor is filled with Cafe, Kitchen & History rooms towards the north facade, Administration office & Museum store in the south giving a corridor space of 5m in between. To the right of the museum store, there's a staircase surrounding the lift which goes into the basement textile room. Washrooms are given on both sides east and west making it easy for people.

Through the history room, the staircase goes to the 2nd floor where there is a Knitting space, Museum Resource Centre and Multipurpose Hall. All the spaces are interconnected and even connected through a corridor passage of 2m in around.

The staircase continues to go on the 3rd floor where there are private spaces for Curators and Archivers.

In the sectional views, in the 1st view a vacant space is seen under staircase in the left which will be used as a car parking space. The other views show the connectivity of spaces within them and even the stacking of spaces. The straight going grey path is the lift section.

LAYOUT ITERATIONS

Process layouts from base level to 3rd floor

ITERATIONS

Depending on the technicalities, the process of iteration keeps building up to make it workable, the drawings further got more detailed and some plan layouts also changed.