Dr. APJ Kalam Science City
Back to Projects list- Location
- Patna, India
- Year
- 2018
- Client
- Building Construction Department, Government of Bihar
- Architects
- Pranav Thole, Akansha Pandey, Swati Seshadri, Vijay Dharmalingam, Kunaal Mehta, Aneesh Nandi, Matilde Chitolina, Rajesh Renganat
- Exhibition Design
- GSM Design
- Project Management
- GLEEDS
- Landscape Consultants
- Mathur da Cunha, Vagish Naganur, Consortium for DEWATS dissemination
- Interior
- Studio Nabila Birjis
- Structure
- Manjunath and Co.
- MEP and GRIHA
- LEAD consultants
- Competition
- Winner, open national-level competition, 2017
Our proposal for Science City endorses a view that application of scientific methods, combined with innovative design thinking, can facilitate radical improvements in Patna’s living environment.
Science City unravels the magical possibility of turning a so-called ‘problem’ on it’s head, and making it have a positive, visible impact on society. Scientific engagement with the flood issue begets a unique bio-diverse public park that, in turn, also supports a sustainable urban health and sanitation solution (biotic cleansing plant).
The project proposal reinforces the notion of design as a creative synthesis that can potentially gather and hold multiple layers of meaning and use: Science City is simultaneously a ‘state of the art’ museum, public garden, pedestrian street and a piece of urban infrastructure.