Prince of Wales Visitors Centre by RMA Architects
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" f1 C( e! E1 \# U1 k+ z) _) @: w/ DPhotographer Edmund Sumner has sent us these images of a shimmering steel visitors centre at a Mumbai museum.
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' _3 J, c$ @0 R* j8 M3 M* k* QRMA Architects designed the elliptical building at the entrance to the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya (formerly the Prince of Wales Museum), where historical Indian artefacts and artworks are exhibited.
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Thin steel columns support a curving roof that overhangs the exterior walls of the centre to shelter a surrounding terrace.+ v+ B0 k b, W! V' ?& R
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Existing trees grow through holes in this roof, which also shelters a separate circular baggage kiosk.' p# h1 ~1 K3 L- e
) n0 _7 H/ p" [4 g0 b6 w6 EThe remaining portion of the visitors centre contains a 200-seat auditorium, a ticket-office, a shop, a cafe and toilets.
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3 @! m2 u7 A8 @, y$ v( AEdmund Sumner has photographed a number of buildings in Mumbai – see our earlier stories about a corporate office block beside a slum and a wood-clad temple., |3 a" z) ]5 f- p3 i. z$ F
# [8 R R8 O/ V8 B9 q. S. oThe following text is from RMA Architects:, r; |* W9 [8 B
A visitor’s center located at the entrance of the Prince of Wales Museum, a Grade I heritage structure in Mumbai.
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The center fulfills various programmatic functions, ranging from the integration of baggage collection and storage, to ticketing and security, as well as a museum shop, two hundred seat auditorium, and rest rooms.
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A lightweight, stainless steel clad elliptical roof creates a covered verandah for circulation, integrating disparate visitor programs into a consolidated and modest, yet contemporary form.( _0 f' O) z4 J
Glass and metal surfaces exist as a visual counterpoint to stout basalt stone of local heritage structures. Reflective material planes create a paradoxical visual poetry in which archaic forms of the adjacent museum are recast and distorted in a new perspective.# E6 A. {& N' { G
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The pre-defined footprint is organically punctured by existing trees that project through openings in the roof, yielding localized deviations in the otherwise low-key scale spaces.
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Integration of natural textures with modern means and materials further expands the defining narrative of the center, that of a culturally meaningful intervention within a monumental historic context.) U7 f9 m7 F; m. I1 X$ m3 Y+ R) N1 ~
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