Under the newly formed Corporation of Cochin comes the most important city of Kerala, even though the Capital of the state happens to be set in Trivandrum. It has got a population of 3.5 lakhs and an area of 83.524 sq.kms. The Corporation is formed combining the former municipalities of Ernakulam, Mattancherry and Fort Cochin, and certain other areas, and it lacks a centralized place, where the Corporation Council and the offices could be housed. It is to fulfill this spatial and symbolic need that the building which forms thee subject of this thesis project that is, a Corporation building for the city of Cochin is proposed.
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