INDIAN WAR MUSEUM

FORT - (noun| /fo:t/): a walled city or a fortified building. A fortification is a military construction or building designed for the defense of territories in warfare, and is also used to solidify rule in a region during peacetime. The term is derived from the Latin fortis ("strong") and facere ("to make"). The fort was always seen as the foremost defense mechanism throughout historic battles. Moving away from the structured British era, the design looks to connect to the Indian history by analyzing the two key elements of the fort.   // The Fort It is a walled city that doesn’t allow penetration except for controlled access and random visual connections. This idea has been expressed through keeping the museum as an opaque box with minimal openings constructed as folds and lifts. Presence of light through the connections is the most fundamental force of design. The entire design can be summarized as a set of porous objects contained in a box connected through horizontal and vertical connections. The Museum is conceived as a set of boxes enclosing a central vertical stack of ramps and bridges through which light penetrates and illumi