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UG - BARCH - Studio - 4 | Spring 2023 | MOL - A MARKETPLACE IN MANDU
  • Student Khushi Goplani
  • Code UAR21171
  • Faculty Architecture
  • Unit L2 Studio Unit
  • Tutor/s Vinod Shah,Mangesh Belsare
  • TA Dhruv Pandya

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The task at hand is to design a marketplace to accommodate the street vendors of the Jami market in Mandu.  Requirements include:-Space being used from early morning to early evening.-Vendor spaces being temporary, flexible yet customizable to the vendor's whim.-Designated space being allotted to at least 10 vendors.-Designed context/site for Saturday market to occur around the weekday market.-A span of at least 7 meters.-Mezzanine space provided for each vendor for storage/ interaction/ transaction based activity.Keeping these requirements in mind, the design seeks to tackle issues of circulation, proportion, architectural language, structure for roof and mezzanine to make an adequate localmarket.

Marketplace as a temporary, flexible yet personalized space for at least ten vendors.
Analyzing Lunuganga and Bhor Rajwada for structural and spatial aspects, to be then applied, in principle, to the marketplace.
Various Iterations of the ground floor plan in response to climate, architectural proportions and language, circulation, etc.
Criticizing and iterating through analyzing one's own work.
Mid Semester Design Iteration.
Model making to understand spatial experiences under various roofs.
Iterations in plan and Section following Roof Exploration.
Final Design : Plans
Final Design : Sections
Final Design : Spatial Anlaysis