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What is a Market ?
SITE 2 : BMC MARKET
The BMC Municipal market is located at the south of Dattani trade centre and is located opposite of Borivali station platform no.3
A main spine having an informal market runs across the site. along which the BMC market is situated with different spaces like dumpster, a garden, high court and different residential and retail shops.
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Large retail shops with shopfronts take up the edge of this market. IT has specific entry points and has contained nature. mainly there are long linear corridors across which the different types of shops are located.
Most of the shops are platform based where the vendor comes and sets up his shops and others are a mix of small retail shops of everyday objects.
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SITE PLAN
SITE SECTIONS
PROBLEMS
SPECULATIONS : PROGRAMS
OPPORTUNITIES
DESIGN INTENT
Across the site, people have used creative techniques to use the existing infrastructure for their needs. The flexibility to assemble roofs, mobile furnitures, use of extended plinths, etc.
How can existing micro strategies used across the site be used to rethink the nature of transaction that the edge affords and thus the emerging types of different programs ?
PROGRAM DIAGRAM
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Exploring plinths as an architectural element functionally and volumetrically
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Type of selling spaces extends to form resting spaces .