Architecture case study
Relinking Culture
A cultural experience centre reconnecting Cuttack's maritime memory with learning, public life and the Mahanadi river edge.
- Project type
- Cultural experience centre and computational site planning
- Portfolio status
- B.Arch thesis project, 2022
- Location
- Cuttack, Odisha, India
Project overview
Culture, history and river become one connected journey.
The proposal responds to the fading public connection with Odisha's maritime trade history. It brings exhibition, making, performance, landscape and river access together as a sequence that can be discovered rather than a single static display.
Computational field studies informed the circulation network and visual corridors. A central courtyard holds three temporary exhibits representing the surviving links between culture, history and river, while workshops, a sculpture garden, an auditorium, retail activity and ghats extend the experience across the site.
Design priorities
Three ideas carried through the proposal.
Algorithm-assisted circulation organised around attraction points and sensory nodes.
Framed routes connect the city, cultural programmes and the water's edge.
Courtyards, workshops and mixed-media exhibits make heritage participatory.
Portfolio boards
Concept, analysis and design development.
Selected original boards from the reviewed portfolio source.
Next step
Bring the next project into focus.
Share the site, ambition and current stage. We will identify the design questions that need to be resolved next.