Narratives in Architecture | Pondy bazaar

  • Student Almitra R
  • Code UA0917
  • Faculty Architecture
  • Tutor/s Meghal Arya
  • TA Priyanshi Jain

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      In a prime shopping center of the city, a flyover spans across the stretch of the bustling or rather chaotic street, witnessing over years the increasing influx of vehicles, the attentive eyes, and ears of people contesting over the rapidly moving vehicles and changing places for safety and security and sheltering the livelihood and dreams of many. A place that began as one for social gathering for the immediate residential areas now stands as a nexus of activity only shaped by the act of consumption and transaction. At random, two people tread the path: A man who has occupied the same place for the past 17 years and a man who stops by to buy.