Eyaleigai Vivekanandan

UR2016

Aakarshun : A Public Place for All

Women are primarily pedestrians on the street, with a majority of them not having vehicular ownership. Thus, the streets have been concentrated to improve their access, leisure and safety, as they walk the along the pavement.On a larger level, the idea is to provide breaks in the experience of walking along a pedestrian street, by having a space of intermittent leisure, that attracts a diversity of people accessing the street. Along with this, the transport connectivity and infrastructure are necessary interventions done to improve their access within and to and from the street. This combined with the transactional activities happening on the streets provide the legitimacy  that women seek in public places, as Shilpa Phadka stated in her works, and ensures their presence on pause on the street.

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Memory Mapping and House Mapping: Understanding the interdependent of social and spatial relations

Movement Mapping: Recording and analysing the movement of people on the streets of my site, CG road

Anchor Mapping: Recording movement and behaviour of people within a radius of 25m

Analysis Matrix: Analysing the spatial factors influencing the social activities and patterns on the street

Analysis Matrix

Utopian Vision to Strategising the Design of my site

Master Plan and Overall View of the design intervention

Detailed Design Intervention 1: Public Toilet

Detailed Design Intervention 2: Multi-transit Hub

Un-gendering the Pedestrian Plaza