SYNOPSIS (2015-2016)
Topic 1 : Museum of Modern Art, Kolkata Topic 2 : National War Memorial, New Delhi Topic 3 : Chakeri Airport, Kanpur
Submitted To : Ar. Dileep Kumar
Submitted By : Monika Vardhan B. Arch.
1. Museum of Modern Art Introduction A Museum is an institution that cares for (conserves) a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance and makes them available for public viewing through exhibits that may be permanent or temporary.
Aims and Objectives A Museums collects, preserve, interpret, and display items of artistic, cultural, or scientific significance for the education of the public. Museum purposes vary from institution to institution. Some favor education over conservation, or vice versa. To a family looking for entertainment on a Sunday afternoon, a trip to a local history museum or large city art museum could be a fun, and enlightening way to spend the day. To city leaders, a healthy museum community can be seen as a gauge of the economic health of a city, and a way to increase the sophistication of its inhabitants. To a museum professional, a museum might be seen as a way to educate the public about the museum’s mission, such as civil rights or environmentalism. Museums are, above all, storehouses of knowledge.
“ For the increase and diffusion of knowledge.” -
James Smithson (Founder of Smithsonian Institution)
Reason of selection of Particular Topic Documents relating to India’s rich cultural heritage are housed in various museums here and abroad. However, no Indian museum yet has the state-of-the-art facility to address every aspect of preserving it while promoting both multidisciplinary and multicultural interface.
Scope of Work/Study The cultural heritage of India-its theatre, music, dance, painting, sculpture, architecture, etc.-is as diverse and as complex as the country itself. The KMOMA will bring, under a single roof, two broad areas of work: collection, preservation and exhibition of fine art objects, both from India and abroad, dating from the late 18th century to the contemporary times; and the promotion of art education and research.
About Site Name : Kolkata Museum of Modern Art (KMOMA) Area : 10 Acre Location : Rajarhat, Kolkata. Authority : Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA)
The KMOMA is located along the Major Arterial Road in Action Area - II of New Town, Kolkata at 22°35′55″N 88°28′03″E. The park will be surrounded by the New Town Eco Park and Kolkata International Convention Center on the North, the upcoming Central Business District and International Financial Hub on the east, and existing human settlement of Jatragachi/Hatiara on the South and West.
Methodology
Understanding the concept and site Learning the function and need of a museum Analysis of Site
Data Collection and Development of Ideas Requirements Implementation of concept
Incorporating ideas in the design Development of Design
PROTOTYPES Case Study National Museum, New Delhi Architect : Maurice Gwyer Committee The National Museum in New Delhi is one of the largest museums in India. Established in 1949, it holds variety of articles ranging from pre-historic era to modern works of art. It functions under the Ministry of Culture, Government of India. The museum is situated on the corner of Janpath and Maulana Azad Road. The Museum has around 200,000 works of art, both of Indian and foreign origin, covering over 5,000 years. It also houses the National Museum Institute of History of Arts, Conservation and Museology. The collections of the National Museum covers nearly all the departments. It represents almost all disciplines of art: Archaeology(Sculptures in Stone, Bronze & Terracota), Arms, Armour, Decorative Arts, Jewellery, Manuscripts, Miniatures and TanjorePaintings, Textiles, Numismatics, Epi graphy, Central Asian Antiquities, Anthropology, Pre-Columbian American and Western Art Collections. National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi Architect : Sir Arthur Bloomfield The National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA) is the premier art gallery under Ministry of Culture, Government of India. The main museum at Jaipur House in New Delhi was established on March 29, 1954 by the Government of India, with subsequent branches at Mumbai and Bangalore. Its collection of more than 14,000 works includes works by artists such as Thomas Daniell,Raja Ravi Verma, Abanindranath Tagore, Rabindranath Tagore, Gaganendranath Tagore, Nandalal Bose, Jamini Roy, Amrita Sher-Gil as well as foreign artists, apart from sculptures by various artists. Some of the oldest works preserved here date back to 1857.
Literature Study American Museum of Natural History, New York City Architect : J. Wrey Mould, J. Cleaveland Cady
The American Museum of Natural History (abbreviated as AMNH), located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, New York City, is one of the largest museums in the world.
Located in park-like grounds across the street from Central Park, the museum complex comprises 27 interconnected buildings housing 45 permanent exhibition halls, in addition to a planetarium and a library. The museum collections contain over 32 million specimens of plants, humans, animals, fossils, minerals, rocks, meteorites, and human cultural artifacts, of which only a small fraction can be displayed at any given time, and occupies 1,600,000 square feet (150,000 m2).
Museum of Modern Art, New York City Architect : Philip L. Goodwin and Edward Durell Stone The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan in New York City. It has been important in developing and collecting modernist art, and is often identified as the most influential museum of modern art in the world. The museum's collection offers an overview of modern and contemporary art, including works of architecture and design, drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, prints, illustrated books and artist's books, film and electronic media. The Library's holdings include approximately 300,000 books and exhibition catalogs, over 1,000 periodical titles, and over 40,000 files of ephemera about individual artists and groups. The archives holds primary source material related to the history of modern and contemporary art.
References www.kmomamuseum.org www.dda.org.in www.wikipedia.com www.moma.org www.google.co.in Google Maps Google Images
2. National War Memorial Introduction A war memorial is a building, monument, statue or other edifice to celebrate a war or victory, or (predominating in modern times) to commemorate those who died or were injured in a war. In modern times the main intent of war memorials is not to glorify war, but to honor those who have died. Sometimes, as in the case of the Warsaw Genuflection of Willy Brandt, they may also serve as focal points of increasing understanding between previous enemies.
Aims and Objectives For most of human history war memorials were erected to commemorate great victories. However, by the end of the nineteenth century, it was common for regiments in the British Army to erect monuments to their comrades who had died in small Imperial Wars and these memorials would list their names. By the early twentieth century some towns and cities in the United Kingdom raised the funds to commemorate the men from their communities who had fought and died in the Second Anglo-Boer War. However it was after the great losses of the First World War that commemoration took center stage and most communities erected a war memorial listing those men and women who had gone to war and not returned.
Reason of selection of Particular Topic Names of martyrs killed in wars in 1947–48, 1961 (Goa), 1962 (Chinese aggression), 1965, 1971, 1987 ( Saichen), 1987-88 (Sri Lanka), 1999 (Kargil), and other Operations will be inscribed on the memorial wall. The memorial will honor the fallen soldiers of the war.
Scope of Work/Study War memorials are a particular type that share this definition and specifically commemorate some aspect of ideals related to a specific war event, of the role of a nation (or similar group) or of that nation’s participants in a wartime event. War memorials include commemorations that honor ideals and mourn individual losses.
Methodology
Understanding the significance of a war memorial Understanding the need Site Analysis
Conceptual Design Requirements Development of concept
Development of the design Design Process
About Site Name : National War Memorial Area : 14 Acre Location : India Gate, New Delhi Authority : Delhi Development Authority (DDA)
The memorial will be made around the existing chhatri (canopy) near India Gate in the adjoining Princes Park area. The proposed National War Memorial and the War Museum, will be connected by a subway.
PROTOTYPES Case Study Victory War Memorial Victory War Memorial, formerly called the Cupid's bow, is a memorial in Chennai, India, originally constructed to commemorate the victory of the allied armies during World War I (1914–1918) and later became the victory war memorial for World War II(1939–1945) in the memory of those from the Madras presidency who lost their lives in the wars. Later addition includes inscriptions of 1948 Kashmir Aggression, 1962 War with China and the Indo-Pakistan War.
World War I Memorial (Tiruchirappalli) World War I Memorial, located opposite to Gandhi Market, Tiruchirappalli in the state of Tamil Nadu, India, is war memorial dedicated for the soldiers of Trichinopoly. About 302 soldiers from Trichinopoly participated in World War I as a part of British Indian Army, of which 41 died during the course of war. In remembrance of those soldiers, the then government erected a memorial with a huge clock in it. The memorial is styled on the lines of a "Lawn Cemetery". The memorial does not contain any buried dead-bodies, but has plaques with the names of many British soldiers who died in both the World Wars, with the inscription "Their name liveth for evermore".
Literature Study Tomb of the Unknown Soldier (Moscow) Architect : Yu. R. Rabayev, V. A. Klimov, D. I. Burdin The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is a war memorial, dedicated to the Soviet soldiers killed during World War II. It is located at the Kremlin Wall in the Alexander Garden in Moscow. The remains of the unknown soldiers killed in the Battle of Moscow in 1941 were initially buried in a mass grave of the Shtyki Memorial at the 40th km of the Leningrad highway at the city of Zelenograd. This was the location of the closest approach of the German armies to Moscow during the war. To commemorate the 25th anniversary of the battle, in December 1966 these remains were relocated to the Kremlin Wall.
Irish National War Memorial Gardens Architect : Sir Edwin Lutyens The Irish National War Memorial Gardens is an Irish war memorial in Island bridge, Dublin, dedicated "to the memory of the 49,400 Irish soldiers who gave their lives in the Great War, 1914–1918", out of over 300,000 Irishmen who served in all armies. The Memorial Gardens also commemorate all other Irish men and women who at that time served, fought and died in Irish regiments of the Allied armies, the British, Canadian, Australian, New Zealand, South African and United States armies in support of the Triple Entente's war effort against the Central Powers. At that time known as the "Longmeadows Estates" is about 60 acres (24 ha).
The Memorial was amongst the last to be erected to the memory of those who sacrificed their lives in World War I, and is “the symbol of Remembrance in memory of a Nation's sacrifice”. The elaborate layout includes a central Sunken Rose Garden composed by a committee of eminent horticulturalists, various terraces, pergolas, lawns and avenues lined with impressive parkland tress, and two pairs of Bookrooms in granite, representing the
four provinces of Ireland, and containing illuminated volumes recording the names of all the dead.
References en.wikipedia.com www.warmemorials.org www.flickr.com Google Maps Google Images
3. Chakeri Airport, Kanpur Introduction An airport is an aerodrome with facilities for commercial aviation flights to take off and land. Airports often have facilities to store and maintain aircraft, and a control tower. An airport consists of a landing area, which comprises an aerially accessible open space including at least one operationally active surface such as a runway for a plane to take off or a helipad, and often includes adjacent utility buildings such as control towers, hangars and terminals. Larger airports may have fixed base operator services, airport aprons, air traffic control centres, passenger facilities such as restaurants and lounges, and emergency services.
Aims and Objectives An international airport is an airport that offers customs and immigration facilities for passengers travelling between countries. International airports are typically larger than domestic airports and often feature longer runways and facilities to accommodate the heavier aircraft commonly used for international and intercontinental travel. International airports often also host domestic flights. Buildings, operations and management have become increasingly sophisticated since the mid 20th century, when international airports began to provide infrastructure for international civilian flights. Detailed technical standards have been developed to ensure safety and common coding systems implemented to provide global consistency. The physical structures that serve millions of individual passengers and flights are among the most complex and interconnected in the world.
Reasons for selection of particular Topic Kanpur airport was formally a military airport designated for the use of Indian Air Force that is why it is still referred to as Chakeri Air Force Station. The growth in Air traffic developed the need of expansion of the Chakeri Air Force Station.
Scope of work/study Anticipating growth in passenger traffic, the Airports Authority of India is planning to expand the Chakeri Civil Enclave. The airport would be developed in two phases. In the first phase of development includes expansion of the existing terminal building to increase the passenger handling capacity, construction of a visitors lounge and new car parking facilities. In the second phase, A new civil air terminal at Chakeri Airport will be built on a 50-acre piece of land adjacent to the airport boundary.
About Site Name : Kanpur Airport New Terminal Area : 50 Acre Location : Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh Authority : Airport Authority of India (AAI)
A new civil air terminal at Chakeri Airport will be built on a 50-acre piece of land adjacent to the airport boundary. The state government has been requested to hand over 50 acres of land identified by AAI free of cost for the development of civil enclave at Chakeri airport and also provide a 4-lane approach road the proposed site UP Govt has cleared 50 acres of land for expansion of Kanpur airport and a new terminal building.
Methodology Understanding the function and Analysis of the site Learning the function and need of a museum Analysis of Site
Data Collection Requirements
Concept in Design
Incorporating ideas in the design Development of Design
PROTOTYPES Case Study Lucknow Airport Bamrauli Airport, Allahabad
Literature Study Indira Gandhi International Airport Indira Gandhi International Airport serves as the primary civilian aviation hub for the National Capital Region of Delhi, India. The airport, spread over an area of 5,106 acres (2,066 ha), is situated in Palam, 15 km (9.3 mi) south-west of the New Delhi railway station and 16 km (9.9 mi) from New Delhi city centre. Named after Indira Gandhi, a former Prime Minister of India. It is the busiest airport in the country in terms of passenger traffic and international traffic busiest airport in India since 2009. It is the second busiest airport in the country in terms of cargo traffic after Mumbai. With the commencement of operations at Terminal 3 in 2010, it became India's and South Asia's largest aviation hub, with a current capacity of handling more than 62 million passengers.
John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York City John F. Kennedy International Airport is a major international airport located in Queens, New York City, 12 miles (20 km) southeast of Lower Manhattan. It is the busiest international air passenger gateway in the United States, handling 53,254,362 passengers in 2014. Over seventy airlines operate out of the airport. The airport features six passenger terminals and four runways and serves as a hub for American Airlines, Delta Air Lines and is the primary Operating Base for JetBlue.
References www.newdelhiairport.in www.amarujala.com www.indianexpress.com www.aai.aero Google Maps Google Images
