A Haven for Begur

Law and Order, Bangalore

RVCA Semester 5 - Architecture design Studio
Advisers: Anil Dube, Sandeep Nagaraj, Nilay Patalia

The building is injected onto the site diagonally in relation to its context’s otherwise perceived orthogonal urban fabric - in order to break the linear  monotony of Begur’s streetscape and most importantly for increased visibility towards the public interface.
 
Begur is a town situated southeast of Bangalore city. It is densely populated with the primary artery road; “Begur main road”; running through it, serving as its commercial business region.

Tributary roads emerging from here take one into the internal areas where the masons, carpenters, shopkeepers, butchers, businessmen, landlords, pimps, alcoholics, children, families, and single ladies dwell within shop-houses, housing complexes, condominiums, single houses, etc.



The urbanization within Begur is expedited by the presence of the metropolitan city in close proximity. The main road sprawls with cinema halls, hair salons, garment stores, butcher shops, cool bars, liquor stores, resto-bars, bakehouses, and restaurants tucked in between the innumerable industrial, hardware, sanitary, and woodwork shops that occupy the stretch with temples at intervals; all supporting the burgeoning real estate complexes and condos rising up in the vicinity.

View Towards the Main Staircase

Within this confluence of the rich and poor lies the question of what belongs to whom. The project underlining law and order brought about an immediacy to focus on the safety of women and children of Begur considering the myriad of underlying activities that operate within its urban fabric.