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// about the Khadiyo
Khadiyo is a food vending zone, formed on an empty corner of the Anjar Stadium plot. A newly built Toral Sarovar sits next to it. The khadiyo has a circular/ peripheral form, where the laaris occupy the periphery with a central open space. This circular form increases the transactional capacity of the space, not only between the vendor and customer but also between the vendors. This form affords for a sense of community.
The surrounding area is majorly residential, and also it sits between two major recreational zones.
The vendors have had a history of multiple evictions, which led to the current location since the last 7-9 years.
Plan
Khadiyo is a food vending zone next to Anjar Stadium. It is a food vending place since last 7 years, while the vendors over here have been evicted many times earlier. There are 22 laaris currently and the vendors are from varied places outside Gujarat also.
It remains active during the night only while vacant during the day. Families and groups of students are the customers seen at Khadiyo. The vendors spend their mornings in preparing the food for the evening stall.
Proposed Container for Vendors at New Location
// about the Vendors and Value Chain
The vendors at Khadiyo have a sense of ownership for their spaces, which can be understood by the fact that each of them curates their spaces carefully, according to their necessities. They spend their daytime, in making preparations for the evening stall, while some vendors also work at jobs to earn enough. How do they spend their day, where all do they go, from where do they acquire goods and many other details were understood, by spending an entire day along with them.
Before designing spaces for the vendors, it becomes equally important to understand the value chains of their stalls.
Value Chain talks about from where each ingredient is bought? how? how much is spent? what are other requirements like gas, electricity catered? maintainence?
This helps in understanding, why is a space the way it is.
// Site Analysis
Movement of People
Movement of Vehicles
Density of People, changing across the day.
The majority of vehicles arriving are 2-wheelers, with Cars and Chhakdas numbering between 3 - 5. From 7 to 8 PM, Khadiya consistently sees 50 to 60 bikes present. Approximately 2 to 3 bikes arrive every 5 minutes during this time period.
Bad Ground Conditions
Garbage
Cows
Extreme Conditions
The footfall of customers, increases on Sundays and other festivities like the Diwali, Holi, New Years and on the days of Mela. The congestion increases to an extent that it becomes difficult for people to remove their vehicles from Khadiyo. People at times, even park inside the stall due to lack of parking.
Due to heavy rains and no adequate drainage, water gets clogged, and becomes like a lake, and hence there are no customers who come. “Agar acha, pakka zameen banaya aur paani bhi nikal jaye, toh aur grahak aayenge”
// Design
To deal with problems of rent, and the idea of the vendors to have a 'same stall', the design works with the concept of modularity. Fix modules of 4x6 M are arranged in the existing layout, where the vendors can occupy units as per their requirement and pay the rent accordingly. Each module contains storage spaces, washing area, space for laari and extra tables.
Module 1 - Single Unit with Chairs
Module 2 - Single Unit with Tables and Chairs
Module 3 - Double Unit
Type 1 - Laari in front, with seating in the back. Provides claim over larger
area of land.
Type 2 - Seating in front, with laari in the back. Provides claim over
smaller area of land.
Overall View of Khadiyo
Toilet
Wet waste from stalls as Food for Cows
Stall from Front View
Space for Mobile Vendors
Pathway with Roof
Entry from Parking
Central Garden with Fixed Seating
Issues of water clogging are dealt by the means of permeable paverblocks on the pathway. While the waste water of washing utensils, which is presently being thrown anywhere in the central space, can be thrown in the Reed Beds which run along the pathway. These both mechanisms help in recharging the ground water, which becomes useful in context of Anjar, that is dry and arid.
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