Green Museums - Communicating through nature

Paridhi Singhvi

LA4002

Green museums are a way to facilitate and create repositories for pollinators in urban areas that help in maintaining the ecological balance. These ‘Green Modules’ can then be used as a prototype for dense urban areas of a particular region. This repetition of these composed gardens will eventually create an urban habitat and movement corridor for the pollinators. On a larger scale, this project aims to highlight the role of urban green fragments in the ecosystem and also communicates the story of habitat for small yet important species.

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Vision : Green Museums communicate the importance of pollinators to people and the ecological processes they support. The museum allows exhibition of pollinator habitats and its importance to the larger ecosystem.

To establish a primary structure for green museum, a few precedents were analyzed. These projects were selected to support the vision while simultaneously developing a methodology for the same.

Understanding of the site constraints is crucial in order to integrate with the design program. This helps in acknowledging certain ecological and cultural aspects on site

Analyzing the program requirements based on user groups and activities around the site.

The idea here is to detail out these areas to integrate activity and movement patterns for pollinators and public. Emphasis is placed on detailing out the museum framework which consists of habitat for pollinators

To further explore the museum framework as devised in schematic plan. Characteristics of these habitats are based on requirements of various pollinators and are already explored with the site. The context and details of pollinators that were being explored are imprinted back on site. The movement of pollinators within these spaces is estimated and the observations that will result from those movements are also imagined. The character sketches of these areas help in understanding the spatial expe

Master plan showing the various spaces on site and the planting structure.

Sections showing various activities and habitats across the site.

Exploring change in character of the space allows users to acknowledge the nature cycle and hence seasonality is being explored as a position on site.

Conclusion plans showing probability of spaces being used during different seasons by the stakeholders i.e pollinators and public.