The Discovery Centre in Bengaluru, with its bright red walls and beautiful landscaping, is an attention-grabber that the Architecture Discipline team should be proud of having created.
The Discovery Centre is a 37,000 sq. ft. town hall that sits at the heart of the 125 acre Bhartiya City Township in Bengaluru, Karnataka. The brief required the Architecture Discipline team to build a contemporary institution where the site and sales office could be set up and people could mingle and explore information about the various initiatives of the client.
Additionally, it had to be easy to move as the structure is scheduled to be shifted to another spot 6 years later. But architect Akshat Bhatt and the design team’s imagination was unhampered by these heavy demands.
Red was picked as the stand-out colour to paint the egg-shaped auditorium with. The structure sits amidst a lotus pond. The granite staircase too sports the chosen colour. To stretch all limits of modularity, an earth-fill plinth, a truss system, water-based paint, frit-printed glass, local stone and flora, a photovoltaic power set-up and lots of natural light and air infusion were brought together to good effect.
The project is a demonstration of the team’s ingenuity with cost-effective green ideas for construction.
