Ishita Rakesh Singh

UR2012

The Municipal Market Park 'n' Spill

The project intends to have a building that integrates parking with the activities such that parking can be deciphered as more than just a task. The building was attempted to have a columnar structure that allows maximum visibility from the road for a pedestrian, and not treat cars as objects that are supposed hide behind the walls.  For elimination of dark and isolated basements, an attempt was made to have steps that go down till the lowermost basement. Having no parking on ground floor was followed so that building is equally inviting for people who don't use the building for parking. Activities like drive-in theater were also kept in the building, on the terrace during the non-parking hours, hence not compromising on the space and making it multi-functional.


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The mosaic is an integration of distinct activities that can be possibly accommodated in a car parking’s space. This is exercise made me familiar with a single car park’s space and how the space is capable of being used for multiple other functions. It also helped me realise the scale of a car.

After scaling spaces and spacing scales, the next exercise was about how a site’s thorough study would highlight issues and benefits of the site and hence would help us gauge the future resolution of those issues . In Bopal, after recording and observing things, I came across various inferences which included how the parking space and irregular allotment of parking spots was not only more than necessary but also was creating traffic which would have otherwise been absent.

Followed by the Bopal Area Case study was picking up potential areas in the site and devise a vision for it keeping in mind the iferences that were made about the site. The two visions that I devised for Bopal, could potentially take place in the under bridge space . This overbridge has only parking as the main activity going around under it. Integrating things like, night market, landscape and even a mini heritage centre could help the the site get more lively and used by pedestrians.

After understanding the process of studying a site and building inferences, the studio introduced us to techincal aspects of parking vehicles. This exercise wanted us to explore and get used to parking standards. This was a very helpful exercise in terms of understanding how the ramps, circulation core, other supporting spaces, driveway circulation, turning radius and various other standards .

Concept Development

Plans of Final Design

Axonometric View and Sections of Final Design

Front view of the Municipal Market Park 'N' Spill

One of the motives of studio has been to be able to explore scales of things. This exercise was the bit where before we transition towards the main design problem, we get a gist of small scale design problems that might help us being more careful and considerate about the relatively smaller details in the design problem .