INGENUITY WITHIN CHAOS A Public Intervention in Saddar, Rawalpindi

Abstract

Program and event are two distinct entities. The major difference between the two is the nature of occurrence. The former refers to a planned/probable occurrence, whereas the later refers to the unexpected / unpredictable occurrence. The idea of event is what gives meaning to design'. Architecture is not just four walls resting on a foundation it has more meaning attached to it; this connotation may come from designing for the event or may just be there, unconscious. The idea of event generating spaces is not a new one and has been into play since the very beginning, an open piazza with a vendor selling his produce turns the empty open space into a meaningful entity, a place, with memories associated with it. A person selling balloons on a street adds more meaning to the definition of the street then just a pathway connecting other courses. All these events have occurred by virtue of something that triggered them; being architects we actually 'design' eventual spaces. These spaces may be un-programmed but this does not imply that they are un-designed. These spaces are actually insertions of non-places between programmed spaces which then dictate each other's narrative; here non-places does not imply to "places of transience"". A bazaar in the local context is another example of such an eventual space. The bazaar just came into being by one commercial act of a trader who wanted to sell his/her goods. The event generated a space. This space, then regenerated sub-events which are not just related