Levels of Commons

Architectural question

How can a structure cater to people of different social strata and claim it as a common

what does it mean for all people of different social strata to claim the common?

site identification

our site is at the very edge of the JVPD rectangle which oversees the maximum influx of rickshaw drivers and working class men clustering around the local eateries, at different times of the day hot meals. a similar movement is observed at various times of the day by students from nearby colleges, and the street finds a busy edge. the residents of the colony however choose not to linger in this periphery, thus creating a different kind of transaction with the masses. the initial idea was to rethink the spatial configuration of the shops stacked by the road and the edge and create a more democratized shopping space, which developed to question what a conventional "mall" stands for and an attempt to create a lucrative and comfortable shopping/pausing/eating space for everybody.