Site Observations

02.Observations

The site visit to Arden Macaulay lead to the following main observations: 1.There are a no.of elements on site which have a strong character but are at present oblivious,lost or forgotten.

2.There no spaces for the people to come together,interact and grow as a community.

2.There is a discontinuity a person suffers in his/her journey through the site (visually and physically) which suddenly breaks the relation the person has or desires to establish with the site.

The '20th Century' gasometer example (pg 01) clearly portrays how people identified with that one element on the site,how they used it to identify with the place and how this element became a part of that culture there(at that time sports culture was prevalent) .It helped people make their own stories.

Several such other elements used to be distinctly associated with Arden Macaulay.These elements helped people to identify with the place and consitute an identity to the place.