The Hover

This intervention intends to act as a catalyst for the connectivity of movements across the site ie from the outside active edges to the lakefront while taking the movement through meandering gallery spaces (putting the movements to use by exhibiting performing arts, where the users are as much a part of it as the building itself and its performing art exhibits are a part of the overall performance). The key concept behind the intervention was curiosity eliciting non-generic form, which in turn activates the usage of the site. The formal expression in the intervention is of creating a hovering alien mass over the landscape eliciting curiosity. This is done by hiding the generic which is the auditorium (situated underground) and by placing an alien object (the galleries) hovering above the newly introduced garden, changing the landscape of Vastrapur. This form also gives visual and movement-related interactions. There is a to-and-fro symbiotic relationship between the form and the structure. Both are derived from each other. The load of the roof, a.k.a galleries is carried by the overlapping shapes, materialized as RCC load-bearing walls. The upper steel channels of the box and I sections span the roof but also within it houses the upper functions.