Sparsh Patlan

UR3001

Path-Pocket-Park

A no man’s land in a city is shared by many, appropriated by few, and claimed by even fewer. These heavy plots disrupt the canvas of the city. This project works to create a dialogue between the spatially isolated vacant lands amidst the cityscape. The large site in Vasna is used as a test for the application of network and pockets of activity. Design strategies of the project draw on parameters of internal connection, minimal unused spaces, legible vacant grounds, green networks, and diverse activities. The design uses these parameters to create a playful flow of movement with multiple pauses, which makes the vacant land, not a destination, but an engaging, interactive, and lively intermediate space.


Report Content

Vision, context and timeline of the site highlighting how the vacant plots over the time are getting appropriated for construction of other infrastructure (school, water distributing center etc) overshadowing the potential of an open space.

Issues and Concerns identified through highlighting existing scenarios.

Concept and approach extracted with an initial design concept of the intervention

Interpretation of concept into design strategies and morphology.

Phases of design with consideration of micro and macro-level activties.

Master-Plan integrating the direct routes to activity nodes throughout the public realm.

Re-imagining the site through the lens of a single user and his perception of being in the space.

Pocket 1 zoomed-in identified to reinforce human scale and linking the new designed areas for accessibility and permeability to understand and achieve a sense of enclosure and an appropriate scale.

Pocket 2 and 3 zoomed-in identified to reinforce human scale and linking the new designed areas for accessibility and permeability to understand and achieve a sense of enclosure and an appropriate scale.

Experiential view to highlight the low impact recreation opportunities enhanced by connection to the community contributing to livability of the area.