An Investigation to Study the Intersection of Fashion and Architecture through Translating Community’s Fashion Trends and Culture in Architectural Realm

Abstract

This research paper is an attempt to formulate a conceptual foundation to redefine the approach towards designing a communal commercial setting within the contextual periphery of women oriented trendy site such as "Gora bazar in downtown Saddar Peshawar". To achieve this objective a three-tiered analysis framework was devised. It encapsulated studying the contextual responsive and site sensitive representation of an architectural vocabulary. This was analyzed with reference to the fashion trends of the target community. Rejuvenating community's skin by its "genius loci" will be devising a spatial system respecting the retrospective and prospective setting for the user or communal representatives. Strong communal experiential space in a traditionally and contemporarily strengthened spatial arena, with the proposed architecture and the contextual tactility and visual effectiveness of the place is one of the prime objectives of this exercise. How a communal setup encounters their routine activity and behavioral patterns carrying a specific skin of fashion, trending, and people. The attempt to bring aesthetics together with commercial nature in such a state so that one can appreciate them together and understand that architecture can be fashioned and translated in formulating a successful environmental translation when you decide to bring outcome with disturbing the sagacious land setting given. To idealize a framework or a mechanism that shall enhance the awareness to respect the sensitivity and delicacy of fragile female nature at the peripheral arena of urban scape.