Sport is often used as a metaphor to describe the best values that we as the human race aspire to. Hence the glory of a sportsperson's triumph has the capacity to inspire individuals, communities, nations and the world at large. As seen by the tremendous adulation they recieve wherever they might play, Team CSK is a perfect example of this. Their popularity has endeared them to the public in a way where the sense of belonging and ownership that the fans have has created a construct where community and the team are felt as one.
It is this notion of the feeling that is CSK, that has inspired the design of the project, CLUB CSK. The membership club is wrapped as a ribbon around the practice grounds, its design inherently linked to the practice ground and vice versa. There cannot be one without the other. The experience of this kind of integration enables any visitor user to the club to be always visually connected to the pitch and the ground. The three floors rise as ribbons along people to walk on external ramps between floors while internally a serpentine double heighted hallway connects the three major programs of sport, hospitality and club programs.
Club CSK is an enormous living amphitheater, alive with its incredible variety of community activities but focused on the cricket pitch wherever you might be in the building. Through this integration of Club and Stadium, the viewers became participants, and this community is what becomes CLUB CSK!
Team:
Architect: Sameep Padora & Associates (sP+a)
Other participants: Sakshi Ghulati, Deebak Tamilimani, Avani Mandpe
