Architects:WeBe Design Lab

Area :109265 m²

Year :2019

Photographs :Maniyarasan, Madhumitha

Manufacturers :  AutoDesk, Lumion, Linea Light Group, Penetron, iGuzzini, Adobe, HEINRICH, Havells, JK Cement, Jakson, Jaquar, Ligman, Neptune, Oikos Group, Rhino, TrimbleAutoDesk

Architect In Charge : Yogesh Chandrahasan

Design Team : Yogesh Chandrahasan, Satish Vasanth Kumar, Udhayarajan, Malli Saravanan, Visuwanathan,, Ranganathan Ravi, Anjana Sudhakar, Kamal Rajkumar, ViJay Prakash, Balachandar Baskaran, Abhishek Tiwari

Clients : Executive agency of National War Memorial, Museum Ministry of Defence, Government of India

Planting Design : Savita Punde, Design cell, Gurgaon

Project Management : Turner project Management India, Private, Limited

Structural Consultant : Roark Consulting Engineers

Mep Consultants : Edifice – Delhi, ATE

Lighitng : AWA lighting Designers

Fountain : Ripples, Mr. Premkumar

Signages : Ishan Khosla Design

Artist : Lt.Col Arul Raj

Construction : NCC Limited

Bronze Murals : Ram Vanji Suta

City : New Delhi

Country : India

The concept of rebirth is inspired from the quote of Captain Vikram Batra.

Either I will come back after hoisting the Tricolor, or I will come back wrapped in it, but I will be back for sure. REBIRTH –  पुनर्जन्म (in Hindi) ‘Reborn to be an immortal’.

Great sense of pride and victory at the cost of their life! The memorial is a gestation on the idea of rebirth of those unsung heroes through their stories, journey and struggles translated as spatial expressions. A culmination to the historical Rajpath extending through the India Gate, the National War Memorial is an open landscaped public space spread over 42 acres in the C -hexagon. Mostly invisible but strongly present, it is a semi-subterranean design remaining a peoples’ place but with a different dimension of emotional weight. Progressive act of protection, sacrifice, bravery and becoming the immortal translate as a concentric arrangement of which the ‘Thyag Chakra’ holds the name of each fallen soldier who become another brick in the nation’s defensive wall.