Cognitive 
Preservation

Focusing on the town of Badami, once the great capital city of the Chalukyan Dynasty that ruled most of peninsular India from the 6th to the 8th centuries, this project attempts to improve preservation of on-site experiences. Preservation on a site such as the cave temples at Badami must factor in the possibility of extinction. In such a case, the importance of the site must be emphasized to inspire social concern. By providing a platform to maintain the cultural ecology through memory in collective imagination, it is possible to improve the structural articulation of the site itself. Opening avenues for discussion, this process will then pronounce schemes to help protect not just the material but also the material culture of the site.

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For this project, epigraphical, sociological and historical accounts of the Empire were combined with site analysis and case studies of similar sites to infer the most effective method to instill in the minds of the visitors, the same cultural milieu that once percolated the land.