Muhammad Alee Rajput
Thesis Title:
JAMA THEENZI – A COMMUNITY CENTRE
Project Title:
Revitalization of Shaikapuri Cloth Market to flourish into a Jama Theenzi Space
Location:
MA. Jinnah Road, Karachi
User Group:
Women & Children of Memon Community
Karachi has come to a point where it appears to have lost its breathing lungs since the urban densification has fairly messed up the living cycle of each individual. Densification of Karachi is rapidly happening and a few structures around us are at a point of exhaustion and decaying on a day by day basis. It feels as if a few buildings or structures are calling for care, love, and repair and in short attempting discourse with us since many of us overlooked or disregarded these places for a long time. Decay is a dying natural process where people's memories, spaces and structures all tend to die particularly in absence of human presence. In order to preserve these spaces from further decay and keep the idea of memory intact my thesis revolves around the idea of Revitalization where I am aiming to achieve a smooth and humble transition from the building's past to its modern use by continuously keeping up a piece of memory through programmatic functions.
Muhammad Alee Rajput
Architecture
Thesis Title:
JAMA THEENZI – A COMMUNITY CENTRE
Project Title:
Revitalization of Shaikapuri Cloth Market to flourish into a Jama Theenzi Space
Location:
MA. Jinnah Road, Karachi
User Group:
Women & Children of Memon Community
Karachi has come to a point where it appears to have lost its breathing lungs since the urban densification has fairly messed up the living cycle of each individual. Densification of Karachi is rapidly happening and a few structures around us are at a point of exhaustion and decaying on a day by day basis. It feels as if a few buildings or structures are calling for care, love, and repair and in short attempting discourse with us since many of us overlooked or disregarded these places for a long time. Decay is a dying natural process where people's memories, spaces and structures all tend to die particularly in absence of human presence. In order to preserve these spaces from further decay and keep the idea of memory intact my thesis revolves around the idea of Revitalization where I am aiming to achieve a smooth and humble transition from the building's past to its modern use by continuously keeping up a piece of memory through programmatic functions.
Existing Elevation with Proposed Design The Macro View – Into the proposed design
Playground a departure from the standardized mass-produced plastic playground to a physical experiential playground
Ground Floor Plan
First Floor Plan
Amphitheater & Exhibition Space
Space under the existing tree
The Interconnected and Flexible Bazaar and Playground Zone
The Flowing of User Experience Through Connected Function Spaces
Women Social Bonding & Empowerment
Sketches Portraying Women Experience in Proposed Facility Functions
Sketches portraying Women Experience in Proposed Facility Functions
View into the Kitchen Canteen and Spillover Arcade Space
View into the Workshop and Flexible Bazaar/Playground Zone
South View – Displaying the changing and existing heights into the proposed facility.
North Proposed Elevation – Behind the Old Existing Facade
