Market at Narindrapur 2024

Design and Place-Making for a Local-Produce Market

 

 

Since decades, a bi-weekly market has popped up on this site – an odd-shaped strip of land on opposite sides of the Narindrapur road in Siwan, Bihar. The design retains all existing vendors as per the existing clusters with a few additional facilities and space for more vendors to join. By organising the market on plinths and under the shade of MS space-framed structures, the design also accounts for ideas of interaction, circulation and accessibility in an attempt to invigorate the place as a small urban node with possibility of activities even on days when the market does not sit.

INFORMATION

 

Project type: Public
Client/ Patron: Sanjiv Kumar
Year of Initiation: 2021
Year of Completion: 2024
Location: Narindrapur, Bihar
Site Area: 1280 sqm
Built-Up Area: 250 sqm
Design Team: Aliptha Govindu, Rishiraj Sarkar
Civil Contractor: Sunil Singh
Structural Engineer: Sanjay Singh; Scon Private Limited, Patna
Fabricator: Amar Yadav
Photographs: Matter, Rishul Bangar