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Gateways of fear

Power and Play
Jash Gohil, 2019

This project ‘Gateways of Fear’ investigates how particular large scale urban infrastructure like airports induce a sense of fear in human beings. An airport is the primary gateway (for the “foreigner”) to a place, and often due to its scale it is rather intimidating – both in program as well as its architecture. I have chosen to focus on the Mumbai Airport (Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport Terminal, CSIA) as a representative for many others that have been designed in a similar manner across

India (as well as the world). Also, I have a personal experience of feeling severely constrained and being self-conscious at airports. My research is based on the analysis of nature of infrastructure networks of an airport and its impact on humans. I am looking at different experiences created by several thresholds, which become the link between fear and human behaviour. I identified four aspects that generate fear; space, body, social structure and technology. The goal is to make people aware about the invisible forces that construct a sense of fear. As an architecture student, I explore how these different forces work together in a large space like the airport, hence, how architects can be more conscious in creating empathetic environment. I am trying to find possibilities of negotiation with scale in order to humanise such large spaces.

Tracing play: across educational campuses

Power and Play
Nirmohi Kathrecha, 2019

Of institutions of discipline

Power and Play
Prachi Kosadia, 2019

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