roshan mishra – Shirshak Baniya

Volume 19 features the most spectacular and the unique architecture landmark of a museum space located near by the Hayatt regency hotel, Boudha, Kathmandu, Nepal. Originally a hotel space before, the building by a famous Austrian architect Carl pruscha had to undergo restoration to shape into the current museum form. To know more details about the project its better to go for a google research.That was during the pecha kucha night show event, i completed this shoot with almost all possible lighting fixtures provided at Taragaon museum. I have tried my best to encompass the building structure, the pathways, landscape details and the human activities that frequently the museum offers.

View from the green lawn

Boddisatttva gallery and pathivara gallery

The steel frame large glass openings

Barrel vaulted roofs

From cirle to rectangle. The taragaon museum plays with heirarchy of geometry.

Rectangles and semi circles : fusion of geometrical figures

And a complete full circle : The amphitheatres holds a space for social gathering in any kind of events.

Amphitheatre space

Art installation inside Gallery space

Spiral staircase with minimum use of space which in turn is a functional one.

Gallery space

The interior gallery space are a kind of masterpiece and the barrel vaulted roof with red brick façade add more fine details to the pruscha’s design which also reflects the Traditional Nepali architecture i.e. the use of red brick as a façade element during malla period.