characters

The sketches describe the characters I meet during my journey though the slums as a dark passenger.

Site study; Proposed program

site analysis

proposed program

Act 3

The above images are a part of a shadow study.
 -Palak Gadodia

Proposed plan

The sketch model of the proposal

Proposed Sections

The sections show the reactions of the tentacles to the changing tides.

Proposed Alterations and Additions

Various diagrammatic proposals in context to the 'operations' performed in the newspaper model.

The proposals placed on site with the language of layers and undulations creating the necessary alterations and additions to the site.

Newspaper + Operations

The various operations performed on layers of newsprint to create instances of spaces, based on the emotions associated with a newspaper article.

The operations short-listed and further used for the operations on site.

Act 3

The drawing shows the surrounding in colour and the site (at Juhu beach) through the shadow world which is in monochrome.

The above images are the views from a shadows perspective showing the character of the Juhu beach.
-Palak Gadodia

Infromation Dissipated from Site

The turn at the main Beach entry with a detail of the road and its objects
The main attractor on the stretch, with its implicit codes of being looked at and used.
A shot of the other end of the site/stretch with the billboards and the access to beach and the Juhu-Tara Road.

Varying types of codes and visuals diversify the site and are registered in varying degrees of importance in the mind. A walk through the road and a few minutes of photographing clearly demarcates levels of protection of the objects on site, from the very public to the very protected.

site condition

a walk taken through the site, capturing the conditions in four different paths

site condition

series of images taken at regular distances has been layered to create the nature of routine experience which the site offers

Site video

While walking on the road near Juhu Beach, I see a dark profile at the ground attached to me by my shoes. The bright sun above made me lose my way until I found myself into this dark monochrome world. The shoe I was attached to took me from the cemented roads and parking to paved paths to the sanded beach, where finally I was split apart into two.
-Palak Gadodia

Site pictures:Mora village(juhu koliwada)

The site is not alive when you look from the outside.But when you enter you see a whole new city growing inside.At every point the surrounding keeps talkin to you,there is constant a connection between you and the space.The site is cramped and it opens into the beach front relaesing feeling of getting stuffed.

site introduction : nehrunagar slums

site pictures

site sections

The journey taken is the path within the slums which connects the slums to the main node in the slums. The path taken is dark and narrow ,so the journey taken is in search of light. During the journey normal everyday objects tend to appear as terrifying characters coming towards me.

Site: juhu village

The site is an old village settlement in Juhu. While walking in the lanes, at various instances, the experience becomes similar, yet throughout the lane there are various experiences. Thus the village is a recurrent conjuncture. While walking through the site there is no context to the city, except when markers are spotted that relates the site to the city of Mumbai. The interplay of being in the site and the appearance of markers constantly throws the experiencer back and forth from the site into the city.