Abstract:
Architecture is a phenomenon that makes our lives, and we make architecture. It has
never been and can never be viewed in isolation as an individual entity but is seen
through many lenses and overlaps with multiple layers of our existence and the nature
that surrounds us. Architecture plays a vital role in deciphering these layers and
integrates the hidden with the visible. This quality of architecture keeps the
dimensions of time and space intact in our memory, the today and tomorrow. This
project has a similar aim of identifying the concealed, lost character of the site and
bring it to life, so people not only reminisce it but live the experience. The priority is
to bring forth a program that sits well on the site, responding to both the internal and
external attributes that will become the poetics of the space. The layer of Genius Loci
brings forth the qualities and shortcomings allowing the enhancement of the site
reviving its significance and eliminating the problems which are devaluing the
inherited potential of the site.
