Toutireddy Meghana

AR3027

 The cross roads connects major parts of the city and is a congruence of different kinds of urbanity with largely commercial activities and shops along the main roads. Public spaces like the bus depot, stadium, and municipal ground bring people from all over the city. The hill however sitting amidst the city’s busiest area remains inaccessible and distant from the imagination of the public.
The hill being choked and carved by the existing buildings and the dwindling visual and a lack of physical connect is making the hill isolated. The idea of the hill as the commons becoming an active public place for the city to create memories and connections to the rocks by incorporating the hill and salvaged rocks from construction sites to create an urban countryside
 Urban recreation spaces blurring the divide between the hills and the city, removing the notion where the hill becomes the other and incorporating it using the nature to complement the existing urbanity, becoming a threshold for the city dwellers to connect to the hills visually, physically and notionally.
 The project is woven around the existing trees on site to create a wandering landscape that is built along with the rocks as a pathway to the hill that has been inaccessible to the public, making the hill as part of the commons .