Sublime in Architecture: Promotion of Culture through Sublime Architecture

Abstract

Bhutan, with its rapid development and being consumed by technology, is slowly losing its cultures, and its significance. The present cultural centres are decentralized and disinclined to change of times. The features of spiritualism or divinity can only be seen in religious structures and is monotonous. Thus, this study comprises of ways to derive and inculcate the design features of ‘Sublime in Architecture’ or spiritualism in architecture in a cultural centre, which are mandatory for a structure which would showcase the nation’s rich culture. There are no concrete design features suggesting sublime or spiritualism in architecture. Thus, phenomenological method is applied to derive the features of sublime from ideologies and philosophies, and through case studies. The overall design features derived also adheres to the traditional features, and thus, can be regarded as the ‘first contemporary sublime in Bhutan’.