Design Question
How does the form of a museum change with the advent of the digital space? When does this change in experience happen? Can the built form be used to actively relay the experience and emotions a museum wishes to present along with the exhibits? Can museums be accessed remotely through digital means and how does the built space react to it? How will museums in the digital age open up spaces for multiple publics who vary greatly in age, skills, and social and economic backgrounds?
Design Intention
The new museum is reimagined as a public interface to the colonial museum at CSMV. The pavilion as a type is mobilized to deinstitutionalize the museum. New digital methods of display are integrated to bridge the digital gap
Site Analysis
The Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sanghralaya, located in Mumbai, Maharashtra
The building houses ideas of the colonial type with bilateral symmetry, restricting access to the garden and restricting the direct entry from the garden.
Museum Of?
Digital stories
through art, immersion and cultural exchange.
Museum As?
Public Interface
through the dismantling of the colonial ideas of Symmetry and Axis by the creation of free field like meandering spaces.
Design Development
