About the Site: THE GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM,

The Guggenheim is a Art museum

is located at 1071 5th Avenue NEW YORK
on the corner of 89th Street in
Upper East Side.

Connectivity:
• 5.1 KM away from Grand
central. Circulation:
• 6 KM away from Pennsylvania • A Giant spiral ramp circulates up to a giant dome with twelve
Station. narrow reinforced concrete partitions that pierce the spirals.
• 29.2 KM away from Kennedy • 12 radial web walls around the rotunda.
International Airport. • The web wall acts as shear walls.
• Structural core that includes staircase and elevator shaft
Concept & Planning: provides an alternative circulation.
• Architect FL Wright created
the philosophy of “organic
architecture” which maintains
➢ 16 year project designed by the American architect Frank Lloyd
that building should develop Area ADMINISTRATION
SERVICES
Wright.
out of its natural surroundings.
➢ The cylindrical building wider at the top than the bottom was
Distribution:
• Four Floors of exhibition AMENTIES
conceived as ‘temple of spirit’.
space, three of which are LIBRARY
➢ 51,000 sq.ft. gallery space.
double height, also have office EXIBITION
➢ 15,000 sq.ft. office, theatre & retail space.
& storage space.
Ground Floor (1959) ➢ 92ft tall atrium topped with expansive glass dome.
• Twelve radial web walls
➢ Main ramp coils up 6 floors, more than ¼ miles.
divides the gallery into 70 bays
for viewing art work.
• A glass dome covers the Features:
rotunda, providing natural • Museum currently design exhibits to be viewed
light. artworks walking up the ramps rather than
• The gallery walls are 9’6” tall walking down.
and slope slightly outwards at • From street building looks like a white ribbon
97 degrees from the wall. rolled into a cylindrical shape.
• Designed to hold paintings, the • Firstly intended to illuminate the painting in the
tilt of gallery walls was natural light, ,but were changed to artificial to
intended to replicate the slope
Ground Floor (1984) have more controlled lighting.
of an easel.
 Site Location:
NATIONAL MUSEUM, Circulation Plan:
The museum is situated in the
corner of Janpath and Maulana Azad
road over an area of 7.5 acre, with
NEW DELHI
the build up area of about 18,000
sq.m.
Ground Floor First Floor Second Floor
The ideology behind the behind the
circulation pattern was that every section of
The site is not well designed as: exhibition can be experienced by the visitors
• There is no segregation of spaces. and no section remains untouched.
• No proper parking facilities.
• Landscape is area is not well Planning &
designed.
Zoning
Building Surroundings:
Site Plan
Stone sculptures, Paintings, Baggage
Counter, Workshop, Water Bodies etc.
➢ The building of National Museum, New Delhi designed by architect Ganesh Basement
Bikaji Deolalikar.
➢ The whole structure is based around the central rotunda which lits up the Ground Floor
entire corridor. • Administration and other staff related spaces are placed in
➢ Building is made using high strength R.C.C & red sandstone. the basement of the museum.
➢ Floor to floor height is approx. 4M & all floor finish are wooden, tiles and • Exhibitions are placed at the upper level.
rubber flooring. • Horizontally, museum is zoned into open, transition and
➢ All internal walls are painted to the themes. exhibition spaces.
Site Distribution ➢ Bronze gallery was articulated in different manner even the pillars was used • Exhibition spaces are interconnected with one another with
to used to display sculptures. a centre circulation court 6M wide.
➢ Artificial lighting is done with day light exhibits kept to minimum. • Separate entrance for VIP and disabled person is provided.
➢ Natural light is only used in center circulation court.
1st Floor

Area Distribution 2nd Floor

• The site is located in between the
Dehra & jawalaji road, distt. Kangra
(H.P)

Accessibility:
• The proposed site is located in jawalaji
region distt. Kangra & well connected
through-
• 2.2km away from the bus stop.
• 21.9 km away from railway station.
• 39 km away from the airport.

Surroundings:
• Jawalaji Mata temple is 2.8km
away & Kangra fort is 34 km
from the site.