Jain Heritage Museum
Culture Architecture I Koba, Gujarat

The building draws all its light and ventilation from this shaded and filtered courtyard and presents a calm lime plastered exterior with inlaid Jain graphics and glass jharokhas.

Client Shree Mahavir Jain Aradhna Kendra

Area 95,000 Sq. ft

Status Ongoing

Team Shimul Javeri Kadri, Sarika Shetty, Riddhi Shah

The SMJK Trust commissioned us to design a museum as a repository for their existing collection of Jain artefacts collected over years by the acharya and stored within their campus in Koba, Ahmedabad. The campus, consisting of a temple, a library and hostels and dining facilities for guests is a much-frequented stopover for Jain pilgrims. The area allocated to the Museum is a 2-acre parcel of land that lies between the temple and the hostel facilities. It is lush with neem trees and currently contains a small pathway that connects residential and religious activities.