Systems, Details and Drawings (Process)

Textile museum at Paithan

Week 2

Concept

A museum is a place of knowledge that require a curated relationship between the visitors and the objects on display along with a carefully worked out plan for safeguarding the artefacts and administering the entire institution. Museums, thus hold together spaces with public circulation to allow people to engage with the objects on display along with private back end circulation for storage, processing, assembly and administration. This being a textile museum, the engagement of people with the textiles becomes quintessential thus changing the occulocentric nature of museums.

Getting inspired from the bazaars of India and their meandering streets with multiple offshoots that diverge and converge, the museum's logic is based on the logic of a service and circulation core with multiple outlet points, around which the spaces are configured. A grid of 3m by 3m is used for the planning of spaces.

Exploring the space volumetrically stacking of masses in a staggering form takes place and certain spaces are hollowed out to create verandahs and courtyards on various levels that look over the dam, intensifying ventilation and creating a visual appeal.

The division of spaces is done among different floors such that, the ground and first floor contain the public spaces, the second floor contains the semi private spaces and the museum café and kitchen and the third floor is a public space containing the multipurpose hall and the art preparation room.

Week 3

Week 4

Building Practices