Baba Banda Singh Bahadur War Memorial
Chappar Chiri, SAS Nagar (Mohali), Punjab · 30.73°N 76.70°E
- Location
- Chappar Chiri, SAS Nagar (Mohali), Punjab
- Sector
- Memorials & Culture
- Status
- Completed
- Services
- Architecture, Structure, Landscape
- Recognition
- Outstanding Concrete Structure of the Year 2012, Indian Concrete Institute
The memorial marks the battle of Chappar Chiri, where Baba Banda Singh Bahadur's forces won a decisive victory in 1710. It turns oral history into a landscape: the mounds (tibbas) and pond (chappar) of three hundred years ago are recreated, and the Fateh Burj, a victory tower 328 ft (100 m) high, rises above them.
The tower uses a hybrid structure: a central RCC core with steel columns on the sides carrying a deck-sheet floor system. Slip-form shuttering allowed the 300 ft central core to be cast in 40 days. Wall projection mapping on the tower's bold, plain walls brings multimedia storytelling into the architecture.
The project was honoured by the Chief Minister of Punjab and received the Indian Concrete Institute's Outstanding Concrete Structure award in 2012.
