STREET AS A PLAYGROUND/ LIVING ROOM

The site is located in Shimpoli, Kastur Park in Borivali which is a street between the settlements with a public toilet and a BMC garden with dense plantations and surrounded by redeveloped high rise buildings. 

The street was looked as a place which stinks throughout the day, potholes which lead to waterlogging throughout the year.  The space is usually occupied by men who reside there for playing or gossiping and passers by are gazed by them. Hence this makes one either move quickly through the space as it feels uncomfortable and insecure or avoid crossing the street from one end to other. Also there is less movement as one end of the street is blocked off. 

The street is imagined as a playground, home/living room. The rhythms observed on site are movement of people to access the BMC garden, leisure space for auto drivers, using objects, gates, trees to dry clothes or scrapped furniture to inhabit in the evenings either for playing or gossiping.