Mysuru Dusshera Culture Park
Development of Dussehera Grounds, Mysore is project aimed to design a cultural park which promotes Dusshera festival exhibitions, Local crafts and cultures of Karnataka and India. The project intention is to invite local as well as global tourists at a grander scale.
The site is located at Mysore, opposite the Mysore palace which has very prominent cultural and architectural significance. During Dussehra, the ground is very active with festival and exhibitions, but is dead during non-festive seasons. The ground is set to be active round the year, inviting more public and enhancing the tourism by including activities like children’s park, sculpture park, Mysore haat, Expo halls for innovative exhibitions, amphitheatre, water bodies and other public gardens.
The project is awarded in 2019 to the consortium of team MJA+MRC through winning the open bid call.
Client
Department of Tourism, Karnataka
Land Area
70 Acres
Estimated cost
135 crores
Design Consortium
Meeta Jain Architects, Bangalore & Mahendra Raj Consultants PVT LTD & (Studio VanRO), Delhi
Landscape Masterplan
Vagish Naganur
Design Team MJA
Meeta Jain ,Vagish Naganur, Anirudh Shankar, Prachi Bedia, Nityashree ,Nikunj Saswani