Civic-dwara: Contemporary Investigation of the Sikh Gurudwara

In treating the Gurudwara — a place of worship for the Sikhs — as a civic space, the civic-dwara seeks to expand the typologies and topologies of gurudwaras and civic spaces in urban environments by allowing their phenomenological (threshold, congregation and interface) and programmatic (stereotomics and tectonics) structures to be imagined, built and rebuilt over times as per requirement, in order to be perceived both as the content of their architecture and the architecture itself. The project proposes a new architecture that is a vessel for our civic being and multiplicity in a city.