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Methodology:
The
entire process of this thesis can be seen as a process
of dissection. Like in medicine;to disect, means to
probe by seperating or removing, here too one is attempting
to do the same with respect to a city.
The study begins from the larger whole, which is the
city, then comes down to a particular area within the
city, and identifies a particular street within the
area. Once this is done, it disects the street. When
it comes to a city: dissecting happens by zooming in.
At each stage it is critical to understand the area
of study, and the scope it offers.
Although the method may have some drawbacks, it helps
establish a critical understanding of ‘layering’
within a city.. It is certainly not the ulitmate method;
but when one is investigating pure phyiscal aspects
of the making of a city , this method is successful.
What
is a layer ?
To
define clearly what can be called a layer, at any stage
it becomes necessary to introduce the concept of the
area of study. As Aldo Rossi puts it, “ The area
of study is an abstraction with respect to the space
of the city, and as such it serves to define specific
elements more clearly”1. Hence, the street of
Tulsibaug here becomes the area of study within Tulslibaug,
which is the area of study within the city of Pune.
A layer then will be something that extends across the
entire area of study.
The
specimen: Old city of Pune
The focus: The centre (Tulsibaug area)
The element of dissection: Pranjpe market street
(Tulsibaug)
The extent: Upto the four layer analogy
Processes
involved in the market street :
Formation
of active individual domains.
Extending and unfolding the shop and the box.
Extracting from the visual.
Four
layers extrapolated :
Primary
layer: It
is permanent - It is primary only if it contains and
collects - It is the first structure the abstract form,
the deep structure of a place or artifact.
Layer of active space: It is temporal
as compared to the primary layer.Temporal in the sense
that it is active at some times and inert at other times.
It is the layer that occupies the primary layer. Its
elements aritculate the space offered by the primary
layer in order to accomodate a particular function.
Layer of extention: It is higher in
the degree of temporality. This layer actually unfolds
(extends) from the primary layer, and from the elements
of the active layer.It is not a container layer as the
two parent layers, but is in fact contained within the
two parent layers when not unfolded.
Dynamic layer : The elements of this
layer do not remain in a formalised domain They are
dynamic, in the sense that they keep moving across the
entire area of study. They are not contained within
any of the previously discussed three layers, (even
when they are operational or when not), they are totally
external.
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