Nikhila Gudipati

AR2026

A striking feature of the Loving Community is its prevailing and very evident isolation. The combination of physical and imaginary boundaries built of social stigmas and stereotypes needs to be dissolved.  
Using the ideal reading space as an anchor, playing with the connection to the outside to result in multiple spaces of varying volumes and experiences helped evolve the proposal.
 The idea is to replace the boundary between the two communities with a statement that provides an opportunity for connection. The indirect connection of these communities is established by a lightweight bridge that runs along the two but not across, acting as a gateway between them. An intermediate space is created, a grey area, that allows the user to experience both the communities. The bridge begins to attach to many spaces providing the liberty of choice. The spaces don’t impose. Some of them spill over the now imaginary boundary, just a little, sparking curiosity, to enter the space that gently leads one to a destination.

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