Ananya Goidani

AR2054

This intervention reconfigures the pedestrian experience between Swami Vivekananda Bridge and Nehru Bridge as an architectural exploration of time, scale, and orientation. The design addresses the spatial monotony of the riverfront and the uniformity of the fort wall by introducing calibrated interruptions - thresholds, voids, and cross-axial moments that make the passage legible. Subtle shifts in material texture, level, and enclosure delineate zones of pause and passage, allowing the user to register time not through clocks or signs, but through spatial variation. At key junctions, the design engages the median - a fast-moving axis of vehicular flow - as a moment of contrast and reawakening, where the suspended perception of time is abruptly grounded. Rather than dictating a direction, the intervention frames a continuous experience of movement and reflection, transforming a disorienting corridor into an instrument for temporal awareness.