Khushali Haji

4130-D

   The project studies the historic area of Bhadra Plaza, located in the historic core and primary axis of a 600 year old city. It is one of the city’s most complex and contested site, with multiple stories of its spaces and inhabitants, woven through each other, waiting to be read.The project aims to uncover these lost stories and narrate them through spatial experiences in order to activate pockets of public spaces and address issues they currently face. These stories intend to create active and engaging spaces that dignify the lost histories in a way that is responsive to their current context. The purpose is to design spaces that create opportunities of engagement of users with healthier public spaces, using the forgotten or neglected narratives of a city that was founded, as they say, on a myth itself.