Trip report to Craft Musuem
School of Architecture
Delhi Technical Campus, Greater Noida
One Day Architectural Trip to National Crafts Museum, Gate No. 2, Bhairon Marg, Pragati Maidan, New Delhi, Delhi 110001
Trip Date: 26th September 2016
Total number of students-58
Faculty- Abhinav Garg, Chandrakala, Mehak Manrao, Satyakam Saha
The Crafts Museum was built in 1956 post independence when the country felt the need to preserve its rich but fading art and craft work by launching projects to develop and exhibit these beautiful pieces of work.
Students studied the huts made of mud and haystacks, hay roofs that have been made in an untidy manner, pathways that have been created using mud and covered with sand are some of the scenes that greet a visitor when they enter the Crafts Museum.
Students experienced and analyzed the passage opening, which has been covered with a sloping tiled roof and has been tasseled with row of small windows, doors along with iron screens that run along a huge courtyard, which has pigeon huts at its periphery that are covered with dome-shaped roofs.
