Gokul Cultural Centre
The Kanada community wanted to redevelop a plot that housed an existing temple and marriage hall with a multi-storey building that utilises the FSI potential of the site. Keeping the sensitivity of the devotees and the people associated with it in mind, the new building aligns itself to the axis of the new temple and is designed to look both traditional and modern.
The building houses air-conditioned marriage halls, dining spaces, a dance academy, other training rooms, administrative offices, and a guest house with fully equipped bedrooms on the top floor.
The challenge was to keep the religious and community importance of the temple while fitting a modern mixed-use programme into one building with one architectural language.
The plot already held a temple and a marriage hall, and the community wanted more built on it. A multi-storey building uses the site's full permitted floor area (FSI) and takes its axis from the new temple.
A temple, marriage halls, a dance academy and a guest house, in one building.
The building aligns itself to the axis of the existing temple and is designed to look both traditional and modern — a formal commitment that demanded precision in every material and proportional decision.
Some images are digitally enhanced or generated from the studio's photographs and drawings to show the architecture clearly. Surroundings may be simplified and details may differ from the finished building.
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- South Kanara Brahmin's Association
