H E R I TA G E

I N T E R P R E TAT I O N
CENTRE
HASTINAPUR

Ashutosh S Puranik
01FA16BAT015
Thesis 2020-21
 Conceptual brief:
Heritage is the inheritance of both tangible and intangible resources which are historically and culturally
important that are worthy of preservation. In this case, the re-establishment of the lost glory of Hastinapur
becomes even-more important when Excavations were found surrounding the Mahabharata era during mid
90s.
• Tangible and intangible heritage holds equal importance in impacting the way a society keeps on living.
• Tangible heritage includes materialistic collectibles which vary in shapes and sizes and will be a live
evidence of the heritage - such as: artworks, museum collections, industrial items, fossils, monuments,
cultural landscapes, architectural works. Intangible heritage includes traditions, languages, crafts, festivals,
performing arts etc.
Interpretation
Tangible Intangible
• Interpretation takes an important role to increase the awareness about a place which has lost it's glory
throughout the history but has a capability of re-glorify itself.
Story-telling and interpreting
Lost glory Re-glorify
• In this case it has become more important to create awareness of rich heritage a town holds which has
lost it's glory. interpreting will explain a specific subject to others, and various ways are adopted for
communicating to the public through guided walks, talks, seminars displays, galleries, artworks, audio visual
media, exhibitions etc.
• This process enriches the visitor experience by helping them to understand he significance of the place by
connecting it to their own lives and beliefs.

Aims
• The case studies of related architectural
• To create the heritage walk towards the site walking projects derives the concepts and increase
through various cultural importance and references to the knowledge of the historic and
different religions. Choosing the site according to that. architectural heritage.

• The Storyboard helps to visualize the

• The design will include the understanding of the internal and external spatial experience of
city's history, historic context and influenced a space and this storyboard will be the
architecture direct reference to Mahabharata

Objectives
1.To promote tourism sector in an iconic, mythical and historical land of Hastinapur,
Where the roots of our mythological epic 'Mahabharata' started.
2.The already discovered materials which lead to the timeline of Mahabharata had drawn
attention of many enthusiasts across the globe. And through providing facility to all those
excavated materials and to re-glorify the history of Mahabharata is the objective.
3. To incorporate more greener areas to recreate the gardens that used to be in palaces of ancient
India.
4. Interpreting through both indoor and outdoor spaces by simulating the epic.

Ashutosh S Puranik
Heritage Interpretation Centre Hastinapur, UP, India 01FA16BAT015
Thesis 2020-21