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Author’s Name
Sapna Chopda
Title of the Project
Thresholds on the periphery
Location
APMC vegetable market, Amravati
Observed practices
Observed practices
Retailer setting up mobile market on the street by means of hand carts as they were only allowed to work in market on alloted days
They occupied the parking space which caused misorganization in the area
People walk along the carts and not on the footpath and vehicles being pulled over up to carts
Postcards/ observation drawings
Postcards/ observation drawings
Setting up of mobile market by the retailers on the same street
Space used as parking before the pandemic
Vegetable vendors taking over the space
Lunch on footpath
Afternoon naps on footpath
People walk along the foothpath stopped using footpath
Seek shelter from extreme weather conditions
Site selection
Area of intervention
With the idea to reunite the fragmented individual units and improve the functioning of market area of intervention is a open space in front of a commercial complex which forms the periphery of the APMC market
Site syntax
Activities on the site observed
Relation between each new level and the activity. Streets got activated as market and footpath used for vendors personal activities
Activities on the area of intervention
Pavements used for parking due to lack of space, concrete pavement used for sitting, sleeping, as a gathering place by the vehicle drivers
Measurements
Following the similar syntax, set of plug-ins is introduced in three different configuration on the open space in front of commercial complex as a threshold for the shared selling, waiting and sitting practice
Selling practice facing towards the street and sitting space towards the complex
Generated walkway also the buyers zone
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