THE HOVER PERFORMING SPACES AS URBAN CATALYST

Monsoon ‘22

Academic project

Program : Performing spaces

Site : Vastrapur lake, Ahmedabad

CEPT Excellence Award 2022

This intervention intends to act as a catalyst for the connectivity of move ments across the site that is from the outside active edges to the lakefront while taking the movement through meandering gallery spaces (putting the movements to use by exhibiting performing arts, where the users are as much a part of it as the building itself and its performing art exhibits are a part of the overall performance) and these galleries also function as an environmental stage. The key concept behind the intervention was curiosity eliciting non generic form, which in turn activates the usage of the site. The formal expression in the intervention is of creating a hovering alien mass over landscape eliciting curiosity.

The present lake condition has very few and narrow within the boundaries of the site, the intervention opening towards the lake with multiple options narrow openings into the regimental walkways intervention breaches through and gives the largest options of access and activities.