Ayushi Gupta

AR3017

Known around Surat as a scrap market hub, the site for the metro station was located at a low-lying area. This provided two opportunities: the first, to create a waterscape and garden that allowed excess water to flow into it, relieving pressure of flooding from the neighbouring residential areas. The second was to create a maker’s centre - a space where the people who were employed in the nearby scrap market could use to same skills that they had - those of taking apart, stripping metal, and working with their hands and be able to channel it into woodworking, fabrication, and starting their own businesses. Vocational training workshops, financial aid and outreach centres were designed to be plugged in underneath the metro - allowing commuters to view the process of making, as they ascended to the concourse level. On the lowest level of all, lies the large waterscape and garden, allowing commuters and workshop users alike a place for pause.