Sanskriti Kendra Anandgram, Delhi

The Kendra accommodates a varied range of activities connected with art and culture
both in traditional and the contemporary sense. It is spread over 3 hectares on the
foothills of the Aravalli range.

Salient fretures

Developments on the site are basically organic. The natural features on site the
rainwater channel that ran down the center and the existing clump of trees were the major
structuring elements of the layout plan.

A basic movement pattern together with the entry points was defined with activity zoning
to regulate the location of buildings and other structures according to function. This
explains the absence of an articulated complex.

The buildings are semi-rustic in appearance and very scaled down in proportions.

They have been sited in a manner as to leave plenty of breathing and strolling space
between them, but not so far apart as to create a sense of cold isolation.

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Although generously proportioned windows possibly admit a lot of sunlight, the

orientation of all the buildings has been planned so as to have minimal dependence on
cooling systems.

The rich earthen colour incorporated in a cement paint coating, applied to coarse-surfaced
cement, is redolent of unspoilt natural landscapes and the ubiquitous, mud-plastered
Indian village.

Landscape a judicious mix of formality and informality both in plant and hard
landscape characterizes the Kendra.

Geometric forms, pavements, paths and hedges intersperse the lawns, vans, the nahar and
meandering paths.

Approx cost: 30lacs

42. Sanskriti Kendra Anandgram, Delhi