Jehangir Park

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Jehangir Park - Saddar

The history of Jehangir Park goes as far back as 100 years. Jehangir Park was donated to Karachi by Khan

Bahadur Behramji Jehangirji Raj Kot Wale in 1883.

A fountain was constructed in the park in 1893 and was named Behram Bagh. Later in the 1920s, a

cricket ground was laid and a pavilion built in 1931.

There was a time when the park seemed to be a piece of heaven. There used to be lots of greenery,with a profusion of trees including fruits such as mango, jumbolina (Jaman) and sugar apple (Sharifa).Good families visited the park along with their children. Now you will find pick-pockets, gamblers and

drug addicts

- Salahuddin Khan,(an employee of City District Government Karachi (CDGK),Interviewed by The News.

CONTEXT OF JEHANGIR PARK

The Boundary Wall of the Park is encroached byvendors, they take up the pavement as well ashide the original entrance to the park from thisroad.

Around the Site exist a variety of activity which

feeds into the park a spectrum of users, fromschool children, to small families and smallshopkeepers. It also has the benefit of a variety

of communities and religious groups coming.


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Empress Market

The close proximity of this market allows the park to

act as a support system for itself.

Al-Shalay Mosque & Trinity Church

The mosque is actually inside the park and thechurch being just across the street, gives an

opportunity for inter-religion interaction.

The park already has a lot of green in terms of both ground cover and foliage, paths of desire are alsopresent, but part of the main axis is encroached upon by vendors on the Empress market side. On theTrinity Church side, the entrance is clean and maintained and the space in front of the mosque (alsoencroachment) serves as spill out. The periphery though is very ill kept, and forms shady corners foreven shadier activities. however, another positive aspect is the existence of a basketball court.


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Plan of the existing park

Who is doing what and with whom?

Inappropriate Social gathering of wanderers,drug addicts and masseuse which makes it

impossible for the residents to use the park.

Existing Public Toilet

Not used by mnay as it has a fee, and is monopolizedby the K.M.C.


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Design Solutions

Functional boundary wall

Space for the business people

Redefining entrance

Separate space for families privacy through berming

Separate areas for different age groups children and young adults

Formal spill out for mosque

Parking Plan - Basement


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Separate areas were provided distinguished by the paths, for all the users in the context i.e. families,

children, vendors, office people, youngsters and visitors of mosque.


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- Berming up towards the left, retaining wall used to support the berm- Desire path ways.- Water body being the central element connecting the park.- Water feature at the entrance being the historical identity.- Highly vegetated to provide shade.- Catering to the urban nature of the site.- Underground parking.- Urban piazza on the outside to keep the park activated- Under ground parking, tables being the light well.- Vendors and food stalls on the outside forming an urban piazza.

The Wall as Urban Sponge

Catering to:

Kiosks for vendors, gives ownership and maintains the space

Dustbin installed in the walls

Variation in height becomes a playful element for the park

Street view of the WALL: showing how it becomes the interactive element which connects the insidefrom the outside. The change in level allows people to sit on it and the material change gives it a

pleasant translucent quality


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Night view of the wall along the ramp . It provides shaded platforms for smaller businesses like the

masseuse, samosay wala n sabeel. I t also provides informal sitting spaces

Jute canopies used to shade the walkways on the

piazza

Vendors given formalized spaces for business

Light wells act as an aesthetic feature for the piazzaspace as well as functionally, it allows light to enter

the parking beneath. And at night the effect isreversed.


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Documents

Jehangir Park