Niharika K R

1599 - A

The Ahmedabad Biennale for the Asarwa site looks at creating the event as a people’s Biennale. This Biennale acts as a catalyst for the abandoned railway site and reaches out to the public. It tries to bring in the localness of the immediate context by highlighting the three prominent landmarks Asarwa lake, Dada Hari Ni Vav and Arvind mills and blends with the context. To bring into consideration of these aspects the master plan was designed by focusing on making the Biennale as an outward-looking event, where the pavilions and other exhibits sit on the periphery of the site by adding porosity to the edges. As, the Biennale is a temporary event, the rest time of the year the exhibition activity dissolves and the site is still kept inactivation by providing a community garden, healthcare services and playground. Taking this idea forward to making it a people’s place the visitor's centre takes the idea of a threshold for the Biennale. Visitors centre looks itself as a threshold space (space of transition) for the Ahmedabad biennale and makes its presence strongly by the character of the plinth.