Challenge
Today, India’s rich architectural heritage faces a serious detriment from globalized architecture that is threatening the very fabric that makes ‘India’. With many ancient structures that have stood the test of time being mindlessly demolished, all the knowledge and stories disappear beneath the rubble, never to be retrieved and harnessed for the future generations. Modern houses built with standardized industrial materials are soulless, lack identity and are completely out of context with its local environment, people and resources. These modern advents are slowly delineating the craftsmen and artisans, and thus, also disrupting the communities that bind people together.
;Our Mission
Samrakshan India intends to explore these connections between people and architecture to understand how architecture transformed under different contexts. Samrakshan India will foster and encourage an architectural and aesthetic connect from the past to influence present trends in Indian architecture. Samrakshan India aims to conserve the architecture, techniques, crafts, history and the many stories that were spontaneously woven into making spaces of heritage value through documentation, education, collective action, advocacy, outreach, consultation, and influencing policy and legislation. The organization endeavors to restore and revive such buildings, spaces and communities through adaptive reuse and experiential heritage tourism. .
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