Genealogy and Ontologies

What is a Market?

The studio started with questioning "What is a Market?"

PROCESS:

1.Genealogical Study of Market

The batch was divided in pairs to study 22 markets throughout history. Each pair had to choose a market for their genealogical study.

The market me and Nishadh More chose was the Roman Market of Trajan built in 113 AD.

Market: Trajan’s Market, Rome

Type: Multi Level Complex with Arcades

Trajan's Market is a name given in the early 20th century CE to a complex of buildings in the imperial fora of Rome, constructed in 107-110 CE during the reign of Trajan. The market was built against the excavated flank of the Quirinal Hill. The complex was intended to serve multiple purposes, including functioning as a marketplace, administrative center, and public space. The market was not only a commercial center but also housed administrative offices for the imperial bureaucracy. The whole complex became part of a medieval fortress in the 12th and 13th centuries CE. It consisted of multiple levels, with shops and offices that housed various businesses. The social structure within Trajan's Market reflected Roman society at the time, with merchants, traders, craftsmen, and government officials occupying different spaces within the complex. The higher levels housed wealthier individuals or businesses, while the lower levels were occupied by smaller shops.First excavated in the 1920s and 1930s, the ruins now contain the Museum of the Imperial Forum. The type of the market is a multi level complex terraced into the hillside consisting of long corridors with arcades on either one or both sides.

Plan of Trajan's Market with site context

Section of Trajan's Market showing different levels.

Each market was broken down into simple diagrams to get a better understanding. The diagrams were divided into types and sub types.

Operatives

-Infrastructural Datum

-Transactional Datum

-Transitional Datum

Typology

- Static/Temporal

- Informal/Formal

-Porous/Contained

Affordances

Effect/Affect ( Atmosphere)

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2. Site Study.

The site we studied was the entire stretch of Borivali Market.

The site was divided into five parts

-Dattani Trade Centre

- Municipal Market

-Goyal Shopping Centre

-Indraprastha Shopping Centr

-Moksh Plaza

Goyal Shopping Centre

Goyal Shopping Center is situated at LT road. Adjacent to Goyal are series of individual shops and Diamond Talkies which is shutdown. As we go inside from Diamond there is a small chawl and a Haveli inside. A part of the haveli is occupied by the Purohit Hospital.

The LT road becomes an important node as it is situated opposite to the railway platform 3 and is a bus route for the Borivali Station.

3. Diagrams

Shop extensions and temporal stalls take up more than half the footpath space. Due to this walking on the footpath becomes

difficult.

These temporal stalls attract a lot of crowd which takes half the space of road.

This leaves only the middle of the road walkable for passing by crowd causing blocking of traffic

The footpath in front of the old market building has formed an informal market, even though designed for pedestrian walking it works better as a market compared to the series of shops behind. This happens due to the nature of the public floating here. The public here has a sense of urgency and hurry where they can't afford to halt. They need this quick browsing of items while passing by. The series of shops behind the footpath requires people to slow down and have a look

Problems

Speculation: People and Program

Class : Middle class

Age : All age group

Gender: All gender

Office commuters traveling by train.
College students traveling by train.
College students eating and buying clothes from temporal stalls due to low cost and decent quality.
All age group females buying clothes from Goyal.
Middle age to old age group visiting the temple.