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UG - BARCH - Studio - 4 | Monsoon 2020 | The Market

The Market

  • Student Priyanka Prashant Salunkhe
  • Code UG180466
  • Faculty Architecture
  • Tutor/s Jigna Desai,Sahiba Gulati

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Shankar Bhuvan is an informal settlement situated on the banks of the Sabarmati River. Geographically, it occupies the center of Ahmedabad, the most prime location for any city-level infrastructure to pitch in, leaving its residents to face a constant threat of eviction. The community has a variety of people following different cultures and most of them immigrated here years back, all from different walks of life. The studio focuses on understanding the nature of the public spaces here, studying the social backgrounds of its residents, analyzing their use of space and all the spatial activities around the same and eventually recognizing one concern and responding to that through architecture; all via community interaction. While doing so, one also had to keep in mind that this community is at present also facing eviction; hundred of houses have already been demolished to accommodate the city’s larger dream, the emerging metro line.
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Choosing my community group; shopkeepers of Shankar Bhuvan.
Understanding the nature of shops, spatial activities and relations with the city of the shopkeepers. FINDINGS: 20 shops need to be relocated: 12 dealing with wood and metal scrap, 5 dealing with plastic and cardboard scrap and 3 miscellaneous shops.
Formulating a Design Strategy; studying the existing scenarios, working on the plan of action and acheiving the main goal.
Working out a module which adheres to two main characteristics: 1.The module consists of a kit of parts system, 2. Module is multidirectional in nature.
Working out variations in the module.
Collage of all the relocated shops.
THE MARKET: functions once a week, calls in crowd. Outside vendors are allowed to set up stalls here, drawing in more public and normalizing the existence of these shops which are otherwise looked as informal.
SITE PLAN: For the market to fuction, the need for connecting it to another public space rises. The viewing deck along the community wall and bridge connecting to the Riverfront do the same.
SECTIONS
Comparing the activities on a week day v/s a market day.