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SPECTACLE OF SOCIALITY
URBAN PLOT: PLAY OF XL ARCHITECTURE
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Monsoon ‘21
Academic project
Program : Social Hub
Site : Threshold of Baroda
The lockdown times have made us realize the value of social interactions and public places (away from home isolation). And the neighbourhood of Channi has an excess of residential and commercial areas but highly lacks a public institutional area. The neighbourhood lacks a metaphysical place which can give a zoomed-out perspective and allow concoction of all the diversities- in demographics, the physicality of areas, different activities, users, etc in Channi.
A social hub, that is abstract from the context and provides distance from the routine, a new perspective - physically, experientially, mentally, a new spatial language which becomes a threshold/portal to enter and exit the city or go beyond. Interaction and Transition are envisioned as the core for the public intervention. The hub would become a platform for the diverse demography of the neighbourhood to come together and interact. Education and recreation would initiate the interaction in the hub which may diversify further.
Noise and Traffic (Chaos)
Experiential Happiness and Stress
