The museum showcases an architectural language that is both essential and primitive. Constructed entirely in raw concrete, the building embodies a desire to return to nature what inherently belongs to it. The museum’s central symbolic element is a plumb line suspended from the ceiling, ideally linking heaven and earth – a detail that encapsulates the connection between matter and spirit, the finite and the infinite.
A journey showcasing love, inferiority complex it brought and how I overcame it.
It all started when society brutally declared that expressing love was a ‘sin’. An individual suddenly hands you a clean pair of glasses,
changes your perspective just to say, “Love isn’t a sin, it’s a natural sentiment”, giving me a new vision to appreciate art.
Using the language of Architecture, I thought of expressing myself as a form of Gratitude. This gave birth to an enormous structure bringing its own set of challenges to construct. A miniature of the same was then planned and constructed for the sake of His words,
“Emotions when Compressed, can’t Suppress their Intensity.”
Museum of Humanity is a symmetrical, balanced structure, using Architecture as a language to convey those intense emotions, as a Token
of Regard to that Honoured Person.
Profoundly influenced by the traditional Indian Crematorium, Smashan Bhoomi, this space has much more to say than its visceral impression. Built with a single material Concrete, it is a gentle reminder to Humanity, of returning what they owe from nature in the form of ashes. Rivers often hold a spiritual significance with their presence near Smashan Bhoomi. Water bodies with continuous dripping water in this Museum reminds of those sacred rivers and rekindles the age-old Indian belief of repetitive reincarnation of immortal Soul,
Atma.
