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Amod Anshumalin Shah

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(Museum for) The Divided Bengal - Les Lieux de mémoire

The collective memory of the past is driven by state institutionalized modern history. 
This project is an inquiry concerning architecture, history and memory. (Museum for) The Divided Bengal presents the social, economic, cultural and political history of the partitions of Bengal. It adapts and applies architectural strategies like moment and movement, light and shadow, vision and obstruction, perspective and reversepective, amplified sound and silence, tactile feel and unusual use materials (such as floors built of glass slabs with flowing water) to articulate experiences to evoke memory. 
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Report Content

Introduction | Rupture Suture | Lieux de Mémoire

What do we Memorialize? | Mapping Ruptures | Timeline | Site Selection

Selected Site - Swamy Vivekananda Road Flyover, Jorasanko, Kolkata | Site Data

How do we Memorialize? | Site Photographs | Reverspective (inspired by Patrick Hughes's works)

Design Development | Conceptual Sketches

Design Evolution | Spatial and Volumetric Conception

Axonometric Overview | Proposal

Part Plans | Sections | Spaces

3D Visualization | Conclusion

Epilogue