Gargi Phondekar

ID4042

Set within the industrial interior of Ahmedabad, this project is an intervention that softens the edge between production and pause. Designed as a factory canteen, the space does not merely serve function; it offers reprieve. Using a experiment driven composite of PET plastic and steel wire, the design language draws from the act of folding, bending planes into partitions, shaping light through perforations, and forming communal tables that hold both weight and warmth. Here, rest is not enclosed but framed. Light enters obliquely through faceted surfaces; air weaves through porous membranes. The spatial strategy resists rigidity, layering materials to create depth without mass, privacy without isolation. Exposed concrete and raw finishes remain honest to the site’s industrial character, while the composite elements introduce rhythm, tactility, and modulation. Folded Threshold becomes a space of in between between work and meal, between solitude and gathering, between utility and atmosphere.