KIRAN NADAR MUSEUM OF

ARTS
ART CENTER

Ankit Yadav | B.ARCH (3rd sem.) | July 17, 2015

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KIRAN NADAR MUSEUM OF ARTS
ABOUT KNMA-
Established at the initiative of the avid collector Kiran Nadar, KNMA (The
Kiran Nadar Museum of Art) opened its doors to the public in January 2010,
as the first private museum of Art exhibiting Modern and contemporary
works from India and the subcontinent. KNMA as a non-commercial, not-
for-profit organization intends to exemplify the dynamic relationship
between art and culture through its exhibitions, publications, educational and
public programs.
Sponsored by the Shiv Nadar Foundation, KNMA.

ABOUT SHIV NADAR FOUNDATION-

The Shiv Nadar Foundation has been established by Shiv Nadar, Founder,
HCL - a leading technology and IT enterprise, with over 90,000 employees
across 31 countries.

LOCATION-145, DLF South Court Mall, Saket, New Delhi, Delhi

110017

CONCEPT BEHIND KNMA-

Kiran nadir, a collector. Started the KNMA when the wall of her house
got crowded and that was the time to throw the collection for public
for open viewing. The contemporary Asian art contained in the
museum is one the most expensive collection.

PG. 1
ASTHETIC DETAILS-
KNMA is a single floored museum at the south court mall. A large
block is separated with wooden walls plastered and painted in pale
white color, texture of the walls was grained for better grip of
paintings. There are two main entries that are accessible from different
blocks of the mall. Both the entries lead to reception area, which is
beautifully decorated with wooden textures and other material and a
small art shop from where u can buy some small item such as. Books,
paintings etc.

PG. 2
LIGHTING-
The main focus was put on the LED lighting, and flood lights were
used rarely. LED are directional lights and are used to highlight the
important and focused things in the whole environment and to create
deep shade and shadow for the desirable effect. So, they were used to
highlight the precious paintings, sculptures, and other decorations. As
it is inside the mall so it is only artifically lightten, there were no
window slits of incoming natural lights.

PG. 3
SECURITY-
As it is the center of the most expensive Asian arts so the security is
tight. There are individual guards assigned t0 have a watch over the
each individually divided space. There are CCTV cameras covering
each rooms & every angle so as to look for every bit of activity taking
place inside the premises.

FIRE SAFETY-
For fire safety certain protocols are announced i.e. while taking
any photograph no flash will be used because paintings could
catch fire.

Smoke detectors are installed, so as to get a warning before fire

takes place

Fire alarms are there to warn everyone for fire.

Fire extinguishers are placed in every room for additional safety

Fire hoses are not used because water could destroy the painting

PG. 4
PLAN-
The big block is divided in 13 smaller rooms without doors, and one
hall type of space. Each room contains works of different artists. As
mentioned.

PG. 5
SUMMARY TABLE-

S.NO CATEGORY DETAIL

1 FLOORING WHITE CEMENTED,
WOODEN, ANTI
SKIT TILES
2 CEALING FALSE CEALING
3 NO.OF FLOORS SINGLE FLORRED
4 NO.OF ROOMS 13
5 WALL TEXTURE GRANULATED
6 LIGHTING LED,DECORATION
LIGHTS
7 BACKGROUND YES
MUSIC
8 TIMINGA 10:30-06:30
9 HOLIDAY MONDAY CLOSED
10 TICKETS FREE

PG. 6
REFERENCE: from-www.knma.com, images by-the author

PG. 7