2. RESEARCH AND CULTURAL STUDY

RESEARCH AND CULTURAL STUDY.

1. Primary issue:

The main issue for proposing a Siddi Heritage Cultural Center is for the mere fact that these people have been obscured for their entire existence as “Siddis”. Also this community has been thriving through music and dance and all different sorts of artforms like a personalized quilting method called “Kawandi”.

Another primary issue of choosing this project is the prospect of using Architecture as a tool of recognition for these people. Giving them a monument in the form of a usable space is more powerful than anything they can presume.

Cultural studies was initially developed by British Marxist academics in the late 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, and has been subsequently taken up and transformed by scholars from many different disciplines around the world. Culturalstudies areavowedly and even radically interdisciplinary and can sometimes be seen as antidisciplinary. A key concern for cultural studies practitioners is the examination of the forces within and through which socially organized people conduct and participate in the construction of their everyday lives.

2. Significance of cultural centers:

Cultural centers enrich our society by promoting the arts, history, religion, and heritage of diverse cultures. Communities, municipalities and universities invest in this enrichment by building performing arts centers, museums, worship centers, heritage centers and libraries. Our goal with any cultural center is to work with the client to find aesthetic, functional solutions that lead to an unforgettable experience for visitors of the center. Cultural centers can be structurally challenging, requiring the need for large open spans and unique loading conditions. One example is the minimal use of columns in order to provide unobstructed views of a stage or pulpit, which creates large concentrated loads on the foundation. When designing performing art centers with a Proscenium stage, rigging systems used to lift and position lighting, audio, video, scenery, special effects and related items must be considered in the overall design and can create significant challenges in connection design.

In the last few decades communities have begun to solicit the help of architects and engineers to restore the historical styles of their existing cultural centers while taking the opportunity to implement current trends as well as safety and accessibility codes. Structures utilizes our knowledge of historic materials and construction practices as well as methods from our extensive adaptive reuse portfolio to provide solutions for implementing these modifications while preserving the architectural intent.

Cultural centers are also significant in bringing together the urban and social fabric together with the cultural fabric of the urban populous. Cultural centers in all groups of people and with any kind of outlook has always been oneof the most importance issues for designer. When we use the traditional culture in ordinarydaily conversation, we often think of culture as an equivalent to the “higher things of the mind”– art, literature, music and painting and helping a community begin to understand its historic, economic, and social context is an essential foundation for developing andbuilding sense of place.