location: Ahmedabad

area: 1120 sq m

The acquired site for housing the CEPT Archives facility is an unused hostel mess building, with aesthetics typical to the institutional architecture of the 1940’s - pitched roof, exposed wood trusses, and load bearing walls.

Archives is a first of its kind initiative by CEPT to create a data bank of information related to architecture, art, planning, design and other allied disciplines.

design response

• To revitalise a previously defunct premise and restore it to its original aesthetics

• To repair and upgrade existing services

• To maximise utility for the new functions, and create additional storage/display space- by addition of a mezzanine, in the central high volume,  that strategically divides the space