Formed in 1956 in Patiala, a city in the Indian state of Punjab, Thapar University commissioned the Dublin practice of Valerie Mulvin and Niall McCullough to unify its disparate campus by devising a masterplan and raising a series of buildings for ho
The project transforms the medieval St Mary’s Church into a museum, recovering its spatial complexity through the reconstruction of the north aisle and the choir, and using wood and lead, a material that connects with the stone of the original walls.