Punctuated throughout the complex are a series of public spaces connected by a network of generous

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The Kolkata Museum of Modern Art (KMOMA), Herzog & de Meuron s first project in India , has broken ground in the new district of Rajarhat. The new museum seeks to embrace the city s renowned cultural past and ultimately transform it into India s Art City . Programs ranging from high-end gallery and art restoration facilities, to artist studios and an outdoor performance theater room designs aims to empower local artists so they may play a critical role in the evolution of their community.
KMOMA s 50,000 square meters of program is designed to merge modern and contemporary, national and international art together with performing arts, music, cinema, photography, literature, fine art and sculpture. Facilities will be equally divided into two zones: a museum containing room designs galleries, art restoration, room designs education, research facilities, photographic facilities, offices and theatre; and a Culture City containing dining and event spaces, commercial facilities, artist studios and residences, spaces for the sale of art and crafts, outdoor performance space, public space and car parking. KMOMA. Image Herzog & de Meuron
The concept envisions a collection of simple rectilinear volumes (made of cast masonry blocks) of urban and monumental scale, arranged to express the complexity and diversity of the program, described room designs Herzog & de Meuron. It draws on traditional Indian construction principles of stacking individual elements, producing a coherent and legible whole through the collection and compression of diverse, unique room designs elements. These elements appear as strata in the façade of the volumes room designs and reflect the simplicity with which they will be built. Plaza. Image Herzog & de Meuron
At the east and south entrances to the site, volumes and voids create courtyards, streets, alleyways room designs and market-like experiences which lead the visitor into a central plaza, a place for gathering and orientation. At the west end of the plaza, the museum rises in a vertical stack of volumes asserting a presence within the complex and the greater urban context. Herzog & de Meuron room designs
Punctuated throughout the complex are a series of public spaces connected by a network of generous staircases carving out the exterior and interior of the building. The assembly of different program, scales and qualities throughout the site gives the proposal a city-like quality. KMOMA. Image Kolkata Museum of Modern Art
The building responds the Kolkata s tropical climate by utilizing passive design methods. Volumes are strategically placed to control sun exposure during hot and humid summers, while a water basin in the Central Plaza swells during the Monsoon season. Lush vegetation further enhances the environment by weaving together the diverse building program and providing a pleasant transition for pedestrian s approaching the museum.
Architects: Herzog & de Meuron Partners In Charge: Jacques Herzog, Pierre de Meuron, Harry Gugger, Christine Binswanger Project Team: Ben Duckworth (Associate, Project Director), Michael Bekker (Project Manager), Edman Choy (Associate, Project Manager), room designs Tomislav Dushanov (Associate) Client: The KMOMA Trust Area: 50000.0 sqm Photographs: Kolkata Museum of Modern Art, Herzog & de Meuron
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FilipE on November 26, 2013 at 19:17 said:
Can’t wait to see more images of this project, this appears to have all of the makings of a classic H&dM design. Overlapping boxes create a strong hierarchy and form, while allowing the museum to remain open, ambiguous, and geometrically simple, room designs the courtyards create a fantastic interior/exterior room designs relationship, and I can imagine materiality and detail will be paramount to the museum and connect it to its context.
A basic requirement in the project was to make a museum which will turn into the icon of the city in future. Though this design is being projected as a future iconic building of the city of Kolkata, the design does not show anything iconic as such, apart from a massive museum block (along with a few ancilliary blocks room designs offcourse).
When the residents room designs and tourists room designs to this place can always have an experience of the city wherever the go in Kolkata, room designs why on earth the architects should room designs emphasize the meuseum proposal to have “a city-like quality.” ?
When there is a great opportunity to provide the city with an architectural marvel (which room designs this city lacks), mere stacking up of rec