Initially for the genealogical study, we saw various markets around the globe and did thorough study of them to see the keyshift they have been through and how really a market happens.
We studied the Targ Blonie Market, Poland for the same.
Then we came to studying the Borivali Market and did detailed analysis of Moksh Plaza for our further identification of problems and opportunities.
The site was an existing shopping centre with hard glass facade on the road edges and vendors and hawkers utilising the space in the evening hours. The mall holds very less interaction of consumers with minimal affordance of space for the community.
Some PROBLEMS & OPPORTUNITIES I speculated were as below;
- the edges facing the road were hard glass facades which result in no interaction with the city domain.
- there is only one main entry and exit point to the whole structure with very linearly directed movement.
- currently the corridor spaces have shops on both their sides, one feels like walking through an aisle once within it.
- the mangalkunj society has shops on their ground floor which as clustered accordingly which afford good interaction of consumers and shopkeepers both.
- the vendors who take up the road in the evening hours hold good interaction due to openness, promoting direct visual connectivity with the product.
The main design intend I was seeing at after understanding the site specifics was;
The existence of two extremes of trade i.e. a shopping mall and a street bazaar both with their individual problems on site calls out for a infrastructure which holds both the spatial arrangements together.
How can openness be enhanced by dissolving the hard edge by thinking of shops & stalls happening simultaneously which facilitate each other?
Then I started seeing at how can I enhance the infrastructural competence, transactional capacity and transitional changes in my design, and sketched them in form of diagrams.
Infrastructural Datum:
circulation isn’t directed based on shops around
multiple entries-exits
corridor functions as public space
Transactional Datum:
clustering of shops
two faces of a unit open
in-between space affords most visual connectivity
Transitional Datum:
dead wall on non-interactive side
porous edges on road side facades
Program Diagram:
the facade facing the road are an ammalgamation of hawking kiosks and eating stalls.
such clustering will entice the consumers to come inside
multiple entry points can be proposed
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