Culinary Museum at Hyderabad,INDIA

Project idea

Owing to the rich cultural history, Hyderabad is a place to varied tastes to provide the tourists and the locals with a place that would cater to their cravings. The culinary museum was proposed admits the institute of hotel management. The culinary museum would be a place to share the knowledge of the different types of cuisines available and their method of preparation, along with a restaurant which would allow the guests to taste and experience the dishes.

Project description

ACADEMIC PROJECT - This project is carried out in third year of academic course of five years. For this project we have assigned a live site in Hyderabad. Before designing the project various local(on site) case studies have been done to understand the context of site, climate and old city of Hyderabad.

Technical information

The master plan requires three main things to fulfilled -
1. Museum
2. Restaurant
3. Mini market

The site is located in hi-tech city of Hyderabad. Hyderabad has a tropical wet and dry climate bordering on a hot semi-arid climate.
1. Museum - the museum is divided in three modules- first module gives holistic experience of Hyderabad cuisine history, second module explains the utensils and their preparation methods and food too, the third module is actually a mini market which gives accessibility to local people and tourist also from various sides. The museum requires silence so to taking advantage of human psychology the height increased by three times of normal human height.

2.Restaurant - After experiencing the whole cuisine background its time to take in to enjoy it so restaurant comes in picture. Non-veg and veg restaurant are separated visually and spatially too.

3.Mini Market- the third module is designed to fulfilled the purpose which is taken down to human height. The mini market strategically located to corner of the site so it does not make chaos into another spatial experiences.