Description
Commissioned by the Mehrangarh Museum Trust through a three-stage design competition, the Visitor Centre at Jodhpur’s 15th-century Mehrangarh Fort responds to growing tourist numbers through an adaptive, climate-responsive approach. Conceived as an extensible architectural system, it unfolds as a series of modular, stilted pavilions along an ascending pathway. Positioned as a low horizontal datum against the fort’s vertical mass, the intervention establishes a porous, rhythmic language that recedes into the landscape while remaining legible as a contemporary gesture. The project also presented an opportunity to rethink the public building in India, where its collective experience is rarely associated with design excellence. Rather than signalling ambition through scale, gloss or imported visual languages, its identity emerges from the climate, history, culture and social context of its place—expressed through honest materials and a response to how people use it.
