Yashfeen Talpur
Thesis Title:
Urban Subjects: Re-centering People in the Production of Space
Project Title:
Public Plaza and Pedestrian Street
Location:
Along Bin Qasim Park, Clifton, Karachi
User Group:
General Public
This thesis arises from the understanding that production of space is an inherent creative process and the capacity to exercise this creative right lies with each individual. When space is shaped primarily by human experience, it produces varied forms of use, and thus becomes imbued with a variety of use values. In contrast, state-sanctioned mode of space production, which is legitimized under modern-day urban planning, replaces the human being as the essential subject of space with capital, alienating the primary user. Hence this project aims to counter this alienation, by imagining an alternative mode of design that attempts to once again celebrate and centralize the everyday commuter, visitor, walker and passerby.
Yashfeen Talpur
Architecture
Thesis Title:
Urban Subjects: Re-centering People in the Production of Space
Project Title:
Public Plaza and Pedestrian Street
Location:
Along Bin Qasim Park, Clifton, Karachi
User Group:
General Public
This thesis arises from the understanding that production of space is an inherent creative process and the capacity to exercise this creative right lies with each individual. When space is shaped primarily by human experience, it produces varied forms of use, and thus becomes imbued with a variety of use values. In contrast, state-sanctioned mode of space production, which is legitimized under modern-day urban planning, replaces the human being as the essential subject of space with capital, alienating the primary user. Hence this project aims to counter this alienation, by imagining an alternative mode of design that attempts to once again celebrate and centralize the everyday commuter, visitor, walker and passerby.
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Conceptualization of different modes of production of space, focusing on the abstraction of space and what the opposite of such space looks like, i.e., informed by human engagement.
Mapping the development of space surrounding Bin Qasim Park, from absolute space to abstract space.
Zoom-in on the larger site area, identifying and mapping access and vehicular and pedestrian circulation, as well as the pedestrian infrastructure that informs these circulation patterns.
Zoom-in of an important site node heavy with pedestrian activity, the intersection between the Bahria Icon Tower and the boundary of the Abdullah Shah Ghazi Mazaar, stretching down towards the entrance to Funland.
Strategies for the proposed intervention; a Public Plaza along the entrance of the Bin Qasim Park , connected to a Pedestrian Street located behind the Icon Tower.
Strategies for the proposed intervention; a Public Plaza along the entrance of the Bin Qasim Park , connected to a Pedestrian Street located behind the Icon Tower.
Master Plan, Sections, and Zoomed-in Axonometrics of Market Modules.
View of the Sunken Market.
View of the Pedestrian Street.
