Indian Design Museum : Unfolding the inside and outside

Un-Folding the inside and outside Imaginarium of Design Futures, the design museum will unveil the journey of design in India and its future. It is a centre for awakening curiosity and desire for discovering India design. The project is an adaptive reuse project located in an industrial building, located in Ahmedabad, near the airport runway, surrounded by small industries and residences. The building, although built more than 30 years ago, has its own “alternative” beauty. It is open, airy, constructed in an RCC frame structure and a brick infill. It has a roof grid created by trusses that allows the beautiful rays of the north light to enter the space. The program can reactivate and bring the building to life. The design museum will narrate a story about the beginning of Indian Design and additionally create an interest about where it is heading. The design of this museum creates a connection between the visitor and the object. On arrival inside the museum, one is drawn to the huge atrium space, structured such that it maximizes transparency and porosity within the main volume that houses the exhibition spaces. The internal space uses a carefully sculpted circulation path, which leads visitors to certain predetermined points while allowing them to explore other areas for themselves. The overlapping of the light and shade, the open and the enclosed, make for a profoundly exotic and remedial experience. Individual volumes combine with courtyard spaces, creating layers in the spatial experiences, while revealing what is within. The diagonal shaped elements and spaces, creates an alternative perception while the branching-out spaces with their articulated voids creates a differing character varying the perception of space. This is facilitated by the play of natural light and creating a harmony for all by unfolding the indoor to the outdoors blending both boundaries.