HERITAGE TREE

Project Details

THEME : STREET ART

CATEGORY: URBAN

COLLABORATOR: HOUSE OF BERSERK

DATE: Nov 2018

Street art intervention plays a crucial role in transforming urban landscapes and shaping public spaces. By reclaiming unused or neglected spaces, street art injects life and vibrancy into otherwise mundane environments, fostering a sense of community ownership and pride. Street art can also act as a catalyst for positive change, transforming derelict areas into cultural hubs that attract tourists, boost local economies, and promote a sense of cultural identity.

In addition to its aesthetic and cultural significance, street art intervention serves as a tool for artistic empowerment and activism. It provides artists with an avenue to engage with the public directly, bypassing traditional gatekeepers and enabling them to make a meaningful impact on society. Public Art encourages dialogue and reflection, challenging individuals to question their surroundings and their role within the broader community.

A city that emerged from the Sabarmati riverside and the surrounding waterbodies. A culture that has established and arranged their settlements around the water. A morpho structure as consequence of overlapping different factors of time, religion, government, and school of thought.

The wall represents a mental map of the main buildings of the city and the timeline sequence of their construction. Blue represents the existing background, the soil and land. Black and white keep interacting each other in different manners to achieve the essence of the built forms. Orange represents the river, the water present through all the local architecture as link and spinal cord.

Every footprint has been configured on the top of the remaining existing ancient, sometimes accepting the context and usually ignoring it. The current panorama of the city is a result of this sequence, an evolution from the first Muslim monuments (like Jama Masjid or Adalaj Stepwell) to the legacy of the modern movement in 20th Century (from Le Corbusier and L. Kahn to B. V. Doshi and Charles Correa), considering the colonial urban infrastructures and the vernacular configuration of Walled City.

The process culminated in an adaptation of a contemporary vision of the urban fabric with the current status of Ahmedabad as World Heritage City, making the illustration in the precinct of Dhal Ni Pol itself, bringing the interpretation of Heritage in the Heritage area itself.