What is a Police Station?

This project explores how the organizational logic of the bazaar through its porosity, multiplicity, plurality and overlapping transactions; can produce a new “type” of a police station. While the bazaar thrives on exchange, movement, and informal negotiation, the police station is typically hierarchical, rigid, and controlling. Rather than attempting to merge these systems, using their friction the project translates the bazaar’s qualities to create conditions where negotiation, interaction, and visibility can occur within an institutional framework of the police station.

Collage as a method to Understand the site forces and develop design strategies:

3D Collage 

Design Strategies:

Design Massing:

The station is conceived as a network of interconnected spaces, punctuated by courtyards, thresholds, and open grounds that accommodate different scales of encounter. These range from private conversations and one-on-one mediation to semi-public negotiation and larger civic gatherings. Programs overlap and spill into one another, allowing formal procedures to coexist with informal interactions.

Design Plan: Ground Floor

Design Plan: First Floor

The building is organized into three descending levels, inspired by the hierarchy of a bazaar which happens at three levels : the street vendors, the shops and the more formalized type of the shopping malls. These descending levels generate a series of spatial experiences, drawing from formal to informal, mirroring the layered, negotiable nature of a bazaar. In doing so, the police station is reimagined as a field of transactions and negotiations.

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Site Exo

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