Considering ground zero as the highest level, these tanks are set into the ground progressively rising from the lowermost contaminated tank to the uppermost tank of decontaminated tank, eventually encircling the pavillion at ground zero with a mass of pure water.

The experience of the site as one enters is, contemplative and compelling, trying to reason the audacity of such large water pools, suggesting essentially that the water purification plant is the memorial for gas victims. It is in this metamorphosis from the metaphysical to the more pragmatic interpretation, that the memorial seeks its presence and continuance. The memorial in its inception is not a static manifestation of an architectural form glorifying and or imperiously subjugating the tragedy of the event. Conversely it seeks to anihilate the past and restrain, contemplate and move on.

The pavillion as it sits over ground zero, maintains a stoic silence bearing the foot prints of the actual plant cut above the ground level as a frozen mass, sympotomatic of a burried past in a mass of concrete at its surface level. Wrapped around from over with a tensile roof in white, it bears a testimony to loss of humanity, a cenotaph for all the gas victims. This pavilion sets ground/platform for multi dimensional activity, showcasing social and cultural issues allowing engagement with the city. And and the same time it remains neutral and calm in its nature in absence of any activity, maintaining the serenity of its presence and purpose.

Girish Dariyav Karnawat