Drashti A Thakkar

UR2009

URBAN RAMP

The project revolves around the Boundaries Surrounding Everywhere eating up all the spaces leaving pedestrian and vehicular on same route. Today the Boundaries are to the extent that even the front facade has boundary in front of it. The buildings of same block are segregated through internal boundary which needs to be questioned why ? The site had many potential spaces like Amdavad Ni Gufa, Kanoria Centre Of Arts , Hutheesingh Gallery which were Too active and vibrant in itself which together has a potential to be public space which are again divided by boundaries.


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Edge condition after

Edge condition before

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After identifying potential spaces which are currently segregratted and visited by various user accessing through similar route as of vehicular route. The larger strategy was to connect this potential spaces ( ART GALLERIES) by removing internal boundaries and paving the space between them which impacts the human pscology that they are coonnected. Since there are many trees too the surface will be mixture of paved and unpaved.Which Also takes away the sense of road since evrything is at s

To understand the Potential of the spaces it was important to study larger context by mapping. What are the building function? Who are the user? What time do they function? And thats when Art Galleries and Food spaces where the most vibrant spaces used by different users of all age group. But all this potential spaces were internally divided by rigid biundary segregrating themselves from surrounding. Because of this internal Boundary the Pedestrian and Vehicular movement happens on the s

Site condition before and after