TRIBAL MUSEUM, BHOPAL

•NAME: Tribal museum, Bhopal

•OWNER: Government of Madhya Pradesh.
•ESTABLISHED: 2004.
•ACTIVITY: Museum & gallery.
•AREA: 7 acres.
•ARCHITECT: KAMATH DESIGN STUDIO
CONNECTIVITY:
•AIRPORT- (Chandigarh) :14.2kms.
•RAILWAY STATION: 8.0kms.
•BUSSTAND: 6.9kms.

CLIMATE ANALYSIS:-
• Macro-climate: Hot & Dry
• Average temperature: 25.1 degree C
• Maximum temperature: 40.8 degree C
• Minimum temperature: 10.7 degree C
• Annual Precipitation: 1132mm
• Prevailing Wind direction: 12Km/h south-
West
LOCATION :-
Madhya Pradesh Tribal Museum Shyamala Hills, Bhopal
462002, Madhya Pradesh, INDIA.
SITE DISTRIBUTION: AREA DISTRIBUTION:
INTRODUCTION:-
•The museum of tribal heritage at Bhopal was commissioned
by the government of Madhya Pradesh in 2004.
•The museum is designed to create a built fabric which the
tribal communities could identify with, extend, and evolve, to
represent themselves and express their own ideas and way of
life with ease and spontaneity. Sun path of Bhopal Prevailing wind direction
• While the architecture of the museum is inspired by tribal
SITE PLAN:
rhythms, geometries, materials, forms, aesthetics and spatial
consciousness, •The site is developed on the contours of
•These very qualities are now acting as points of inspiration shyamala hills, Bhopal.
for the • The staff and visitors area has been
•Display materials being created by tribal artisans, supported segregated and the main entry was
by anthropologists, sociologists and social workers. designed at first floor.
SITE PLAN
 FLOOR PLANS:
•The well planned campus is divided into 6 galleries depicting cultural diversity,
Tribal life, Tribal Art, Tribal Mythology, Tribal’s of Chhattisgarh and Tribal games.
•It also has Art Exhibition Gallery and Open Air Theatre.
•All the artefacts in Galleries are majorly taken from 7 major and most important
tribes of state namely Gond, Bheel, Korku, Kol, Bharia, Baiga and saharia.
•The main entrance was at first floor and it connects ground floor through ramps.

ZONING: CIRCULATION:
• The museum is segregated between • At entrance a person has 2 choices whether
public and administrative spaces. to go the museum display or the warehouse.
• Continuity of the spaces is maintained• After entering the main museum circulation
to integrate spaces throughout path has been defined to make visitors go to
horizontal zoning. through the same passage and experience
• Administrative and workshop is placed the whole museum.
at lower levels while public area like• A separate passage way has been defined for
exhibitions galleries, auditorium and the people with the office related work. GROUND FLOOR PLAN
• Special care has been taken for the
restaurants are placed at upper level in
vertical zoning. movement of the physically challenged
visitors.
CONCEPT PLAN:
• A central area for seating for the fatigue.
• The museum is designed to create a
• Central area was created around the small
built fabric which the tribal
manmade lake with ducks which makes the
communities could identify with,
view quite relaxing.
extend, and evolve, to represent them
and express their own ideas and way
of life with ease and spontaneity.

Open air theater Entry for admin area

FIRST FLOOR PLAN

Entry for museum

 MATERIALS:
• The structure is built of steel tubes, castellated girders, and steel rods
fabricated into intricate trusses. Steel seemed to be a natural choice in the land
& location of ancient iron age & bronze age civilization and the contemporary
truck body industry.
• The walls use both local stone left exposed and brick plastered with crushed
stone on the outside and mud plaster on the inside.
Tribal work • The roofs are made of half- round tiles, galvalum sheets and concrete with a
topping of harass and ground cover
Sectional elevation

CAFETERIA
Side elevation

Use of wood for furniture Use of wood for Artifacts

ARTEFACTS STORE

Sectional elevation of gallery Use of bamboo for shading Plaster of Paris

Elevations & Sections

• The museum’s elevation has been beautifully
depicted through tribal paintings and carving
to relate it to the tribal huts.
• The contours of the site play an important role
in the vertical zoning of the museum.
• The roof truss is made up of long span steel
LIBRARY SEATOUT structures.
Use of stone on facade Clay pots use for display
LIGHTING:
Courtyards puncture the built mass, bringing in light and air, while enabling the roof
forms to establish modulated scales and compositions.
• Perforated lighting is also used to illuminate the spaces.
• Bamboos are used for providing shades in corridor.

• The galleries are raised above the ground on columns, forming a continuous
multilevel verandah the site is developed on the contours.

MERITS:
• It is a clear example of site responsive architecture and how contours are to
be treated as a boon to site.
• The incorporation of open and semi open spaces serves as means of
developing an interest and maintaining it.
• Segregation of spaces according to activities is done very efficiently.
• The replication of heritage by show casing the lifestyle through the means
Perforated lighting Courtyard of proper interior designing by using material suiting to that context and
incorporating it by tribal artisans only have added more essence to the
• Artificial lighting is used strategically in the tribal museum. concept, as a whole it is an experience worth learning.
• Spot lighting and task lighting is used particularly rather than ambient lighting. • Dormitory are provided for artists.
• To balance shadows and luminance is easily checked by artificial lighting in the DEMERITS:
museum. • Firefighting is an important issue while treating public buildings but
there is no such Provision for it in the whole scenario of space.
• Seating should be provide in galleries for elderly persons.

STRENGTH:
Balance between natural light and artificial light is well maintained
• Ramps are provided for the physical challenging people.
• Balance between built vs open.
• Easy and friendly planning for circulation.
WEAKNESS :
• Height of the galleries is almost triple height which created
trouble while designing interior of gallery.
• Workshops are placed near to canteen, which may cause
distraction to the workers.
• Dormitory does not reflect any identity of the tribes