The ceremonial area is well suited for the primary ceremonies, honour functions as well as for individual tribute.Second Prize winning entry for National War Memorial - Stage 2 by PSP Design.
It is not a memorial for a closed historical chapter but a live and dynamic place honouring a continuum of the past 70 years. It aims to capture the continuing sacrifice, spirit, extraordinary effort and an unfathomable resolve. A ceremonial homage place is created as a solidifier which heals, instils pride, perpetuates ties and feels like a community affair. A person can pass through the area in about five minutes or walk through the Memorial in fifteen minutes absorbing its essence while passing the wall of honour, or one can spend more time still while going through the details and spending time in the gardens above. Components of the Memorial: (1) Sainik Chowk (West Arrival), (2) Janm Strot (the Lotus Pond), (3) Azadi Udyan (Freedom Park), (4) Drid Nischay Path (Path of Resolve), (5) Vijay Udyan (Victory Path) PSP Design. Climatically and ecologically the memorial responds to its context by sinking the functional spaces to a subterranean level where the land mass insulates the space, covered and open walkways and water features to cool the micro-environment, thus enabling all weather and all year functionality. The landscape works with the idea of layering and staggered flowering and as a tool to promote feelings of peace and well being for the visitors. The Memorial experience starts with the Lotus Pond and moves down into a sunken space with a large rectangular pool. On both sides of the water, body are 4.5 meters wide covered walkways that house the roll of honour of the fallen soldier. Overall about 40,000 names can be accommodated in the main galleries and also the cross galleries that lead to the satellite courts. The water pools along the axis are in three categories in succession, the Pool of Nation with Ashoka Emblem in the centre, the Pool of People and the Pool of Sacrifice or Tyag Kund. The Tyag Kund has a symbolising artwork based on the theme of a Fallen Soldier and his family, the sacrifice and continued struggle of the family looking for a sense of closure. This is the Ceremonial Arena which can accommodate Republic Day and other formal ceremonies. It consists of a wreath-laying platform with an eternal flame and three symbolic upturned rifles with boots and helmets representing martyrs from each service. The backdrop to the wreath laying platform is a polished black wall surface reflecting the India Gate and Chhatri. The placement of the platform allows us to place the wreath facing West towards the India Gate or even towards the East with the reflection of India Gate on the polished wall. National and Services flags will adorn the memorial at the Eastern end. The summit has a tensile umbrella roof that can reveal itself in conditions of rain. It is constructed of slender telescopic pillars that rest below ground at most times but can move upwards when required and open large tensile umbrella roofs to cover the ceremonial area when required.
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