What is a Market?
BMC Market, Borivali
The studio focuses on the question, ‘What is a market?’. We undertook genealogical studies of key shifts in the structures of markets and their resultant typologies
Site Demarcation
Case Study
Salt Lake City Centre
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Site Transactions
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Focused Group Discussions
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The density of stakeholders at different time.
Diagram representing different stakeholders mobility throughout the day on site showing less density inside the BMC market.
Problems identified
the retail shops acting as a hard edge, separating the inside and outside market
lack of proper ventilation and natural light
Limited access ways leading to the inside market
Program list
Courtyard
Interactive Spaces
Specified Walkways
Stilt Bazaar
Stakeholders
Vendors
Buyers
Shop Owners
Auto drivers.
Conceptual models
Playing with the grid and removed the walls that were creating a hard edge.
Columns extending from the wall for ventilation and roof lifted on 3 sides allowing maximum light from north and east
Design Intent
The fast paced market starts as early as 5.00 am in the morning and goes on till 10.00-11.00 in the night. In between 2.00-6.00 the market slows down a little. The inside market gets as quite as it ever could be. The owners and workers during this time take a nap in their small nukkad, chat around tea is served to everyone, pending meetings are held. Its as if the market takes a break.
The outside market also receives less public uses this time to re-stock, packing up, setting up for the evening bazaar contrary of the inside they never seem to catch a break.
I want to look at the market not as this high paced competition but something to look around, slowing down a bit, understanding what the market really is.
Design Plans
Ground Floor Plan
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Design Sections
Design Diagrams
Pathways across the market
Modulating plinths
Walls as per the vendors needs
Incremental Roof for maximum natural light
Pathways forming across the market by arrangements of shops and plinths
Design Views
Design Model
Physical Model 1:200
Physical Model 1:50
Other works from this studio can be accessed here.