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The site for this module nestled on the streets of Eksar road that stretched over a total span of 1.2km. Walks along this street just observing and taking in the life that flourished here and how numerous aspects juxtaposed each other and yet find their own space and harmony was how the module began. A particular space that caught my attention was the Laxmi Narayan Temple that was located right after the Yogi Nagar junction. What there was, was a space that got created around the boundary walls of the mandir to facilitate entities and livelihoods that developed because of the mandir like the harwala shops or the Gaushala(cow feeding). The boundary wall here though created this sense of a stark distinction between the inside and the outside. Hence the design intended to work with this boundary wall itself as an element to blur this distinction and renegotiate the idea of a threshold.
OBSERVATION & DOCUMENTATION DRAWINGS
Plan of the the existing mandir
My site of intervention
The mandir activities were also supporting a livelihood on its periphery, like those of the harwala and the man that earns through cow feeding. The rethinking of the space started with the thoughts of how one can navigate this idea without hindering these very livelihoods.
Rethinking of the horizontal boundary wall and creating that sense of blur and porosity between the distinct inside and outside while also not disturbing the existing activities on the site but rather using these very activities and drawing the forces of the form from them was what established my syntax for further developing my form
UNDERSTANDING OF THE SYNTAX
This studio introduced the idea of formal syntax in architecture and understanding that your sense of new comes from the constant comparison of the past. A way of putting something together (in order) to make sense of it is basically what we understand when we say syntax and using that to arrive at our forms was what the studio aimed at. My syntax of the site developed along the reconstructing of the boundary wall where,
the horizontal boundary wall was divided into five vertical walls which may or may not be of the same length or size along the span. Followed by this was a set of conscious logical operations that were carried on each step of the development of these vertical walls into a form.
The iterations produced during this module were my attempts at getting hold of this idea of the syntax that I wanted to implement. Understanding and finding a logic behind every single move, tweak or turn of that vertical wall and getting the form of the space was a trial and error method where something worked while some other thing didn't.
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