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‘Changing perception through
knowing the unknowns’Cities are often perceived as antithesis of wilderness. It would be fair to say that wildscapes exist in cities, but not the mindset for ‘character of wilderness’. It either has been tamed, neglected or lost. For people, such vegetation in dense urban fabric is alien and hence they overly depend on exotic and ornamented vegetation.
In the case of Ahmadabad city, kinds of wilderness like heritage and ancient, land form, railway lines, vacant and empty and hidden mysteries exist but are never explored due to either no access or pre-conceived notions of wild.
On the other hand, neighborhood parks are formally separated in a setting and are only used deliberately, certainly not being a part of bio-physical environment of constant interaction. Whereas, people use residual urban voids as thoroughfare which ends up being their bio-physical environment.
This project aims to reclaim what had been tamed and neglected in an urban neighborhood to bring constant interaction between people and their bio-physical environment. An urban void programmed with the wilderness to change the mind set of co-existence and perception of wild in wilderness.