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What is a Wholesale Market ?

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Aashika Thole, 2025


This thesis begins with a question that shapes the entire study: What is a wholesale market?

The search for this answer led to the Panchvati APMC Market in Nashik, one of Maharashtra’s largest agricultural trading grounds. What first appeared as a collection of sheds and roads slowly revealed itself as a living system sustained by people, goods, and exchanges. The market is understood not as a fixed architectural type but as an evolving organisation shaped by daily actions. Farmers, traders, agents, and hamals move through it in rhythmic cycles of unloading, auctioning, packing, and dispatching.

Through these repeated gestures, space becomes a site of negotiation and adaptation. Drawings, field observations, and conversations together build an understanding of how the market spaces are produced and transformed. Each drawing reads the intersection of infrastructure, labour, and trust that keeps the system alive.

Structured through four lenses -Type, Affordances, Temporal Dynamics and Organisation, the thesis explores the spatial, social, and temporal dimensions that define its life. It sees the wholesale market as more than infrastructure for trade. It is a collective institution where architecture is lived and continuously renewed through everyday work and relationships.

Read also under ‘Memory and Belonging’:


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Spatialities of everyday heritage



Memory and Belonging
Aashika Vijaykar, 2020

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Galalelya jaga ("गाळलेल्या जागा"): overlaps of memory and home


Memory and Belonging
Aditi Bhandari, 2024

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Architecture of a monument: Vasai fort


Memory and Belonging
Chinmay Kadwadkar, 2018

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Architecture and memory: remembering home in involuntary dislocation

Memory and Belonging
Dhruv Chavan, 2018

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On Sindhi refugees: making home in Jalgaon


Memory and Belonging
Khushboo Tejwani, 2024

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Retrofitted domesticities


Memory and Belonging
Nikunj Dedhia, 2020

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Architecture and healing: civil war inversion of public space Borella, Colombo

Memory and Belonging
Rutu Kelekar, 2018

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Spatiality of remembrance: encounters between the native and urban

Memory and Belonging
Tanishqa Rodrigues, 2020

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