Dr. APJ Kalam Science City

Patna, India

Architects: Flying Elephant Studio

Location: Patna, India
Year: 2018
Client: Building Construction Department, Government of Bihar
Architects: Pranav Thole, Akansha Pandey, Swati Seshadri, Vijay Dharmalingam, Kunaal Mehta, Aneesh Nandi, Matilde Chitolina, Rajesh Renganat
Exhibition Design: GSM Design
Project Management: GLEEDS
Landscape Consultants: Mathur da Cunha, Vagish Naganur, Consortium for DEWATS dissemination
Interior: Studio Nabila Birjis
Structure: Manjunath and Co.
MEP and GRIHA: LEAD consultants
Competition: Winner, open national-level competition, 2017

Our proposal for Science City endorses a view that application of scientific methods, combined with innovative design thinking, can facilitate radical improvements in Patna’s living environment.

Science City unravels the magical possibility of turning a so-called ‘problem’ on it’s head, and making it have a positive, visible impact on society. Scientific engagement with the flood issue begets a unique bio-diverse public park that, in turn, also supports a sustainable urban health and sanitation solution (biotic cleansing plant).

The project proposal reinforces the notion of design as a creative synthesis that can potentially gather and hold multiple layers of meaning and use: Science City is simultaneously a ‘state of the art’ museum, public garden, pedestrian street and a piece of urban infrastructure.