Innovation Centre for Designers and Creatives

Pearl Academy Jaipur

Project idea

Designing isn't everything except for it some way or another gets into everything, when I read this statement it struck me how perfect it is, 90 percent of everyday issues can be unravelled with the correct implementation of Design. And while this thought in mind, I felt designers or designing in India is looked as the luxury not as a problem solver, and the least difficult explanation behind this thought can be the absence of awareness among individuals. What's more sad, in this event is, that if some Designers tries to make something innovative, very few among them gets succeed and reason for same could be the absence of resources given to them and then again on contradictory urban communities like Dubai, Singapore have planned areas like National Design Centre of Singapore or Dubai Design District, which are solely dedicated to Designers, with the proper resources to grow and innovate.
Few bodies like ADI have stepped up with regards, to make a community for designers which are succeeding and helping promoting creativity with full positivity and to take this mindset or community forward, I tried to work on the similar tangent in this Design. The area will be a development or innovation Center for creative personalities now when I say creative personalities I mean one who can possibly enhance or add something , is welcomed to be part of the center.

Project description

From the initial bit the thought was extremely straightforward, it was to make an open and private space which welcomes creative personalities to come work, talk about or discuss and team up or collaborate and enhance the design, the design Centre will have the essential requirements for the Design process there will be trained mentors to guide in every step of the process and adding to it the centre will also have rapid prototyping and material labs to explore the development of the product and finally the community can be tied up with a perceived body like ADI, IID, FDI which can take the Innovation to Larger gathering of individuals.


CONCEPT

I worked on boundary less as the design concept for this project as I believe designing is a collaborative effort and each designer say Interior or fashion or product some way or another have a typical overlapping lines, to which I am concentrating on , and now clarifying the idea of boundary-less, the idea is to dilute that overlapping lines to such An extent that the space should resemble a typical space for Creative People and not for a specific specialized Designers which directly will result in creating a community particularly for creative personalities and not for individual Designers.
Purposefully or unexpectedly, every space has an experience in it; some have a Memorable or Good experience and some may have an impartial experience yet experience is what makes a space memorable and individuals tend to visit the space more than once. Likewise, one of my focus for this Innovation centre is to make an everlasting experience in users mind and the explanation for the same is to make user visit the space more than once and cherish that experience every time.

SITE- Sanskar Kendra, Paldi, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

Before choosing the site for the innovation Center, I had a blur image of overall look and feel of the site. And some key points which should add to the existence of the site. Sustainable or Energy Efficient Building since one of the design objectives was to eliminate or try to avoid the environmental issues exists due to buildings, like emission of co2 from the Glass box equipped with Air conditioners. Location should cater to the masses and the site location should have that element of design in it.

Why Ahmedabad?

The Design Hub of India. Ahmedabad has a great history with the evolution of design in India. Starting from the contribution of renowned Architects like Le. Corbusier and Louis khan, to the home for some of the best Design institute in India like NID(National Institute of Designing) and CEPT Ahmedabad.

Site-Design intention

Sanskar Kendra was designed by Le Corbusier in year 1954; the design idea behind the cultural centre/Museum for Ahmedabad was to create a Museum of ultimate expansion, which in future can have an open- theatre, studio and gathering offices, archaeological and anthropological rooms. There was likewise an expectation to broaden the centre structure and have “magic box” theatre at the eastern side however none of these expansions were ever figured out.

CURRENT SCENARIO

The Museum or cultural centre is not as famous as it should have been and today apart from permanent museum the building is used for, voting centre, exhibition centre, display area and so on but luckily, The Vastu Shilpa Foundation has reformed, the building by transforming the space into a city museum reflecting the living heritage of the city, Ahmedabad. The museum depicts the history and the transformation of life from old city to the new.
WHY SANSKAR KENDRA?

Considering all the facts and details about the past and present scenario of the building, I feel there is still scope for the transformation of the space and what would be better then transforming the space in a design or innovation centre and keeping the existing museums as it’s, it might attract lots of like-minded and interested individuals and might justify the main purpose of the building.

Technical information

The project's building Sanskar kendra is a museum space designed by
Ar. Le Corbusier and while re-designing the spaces, I have left the museum space as it's and built around the museum so the existing museum can actually help the target user(designers, creatives) to take the inspiration from the space.
The total area designed is approx 15000sqft.
Material are selected keeping in mind the current language of the building.