The busy square of Manek Chowk at the heart of the Old city in Ahmedabad, Gujarat is a space with two faces: One during daytime, and another at night.
This gave rise to many questions.
DURING DAYTIME:
How is it possible to park so many bikes and still enter the shops?
What happens to these bikes at night?
AT NIGHT:
Where do all these plastic chairs come from?
Where are they stored during the day?
IN CONCLUSION:
What can be done to improve the situation for both scenarios?
A project of two weeks' duration would have to give an answer to this question.
A project of two weeks' duration would have to give an answer to this question.
Sector Sixty is based on a simple module which uses the effect of emergence: Many modules can be fit together and create different shapes.
The hollow rectangular tube is made out of concrete and therefore leightweight but robust.
This makes it very flexible for the use in the old city of Ahmedabad where everything is in motion and structures are transformed during the day.
The hexagonal shape is only one example of how sector sixty can be used.
During daytime, a single hexagon is used as a space divider which separates parking spaces and creates passages to the shops.
At night, two hexagons can be stacked and used as seats for the street restaurants.
