Case Study 3: Metro Theatre - Kapoor Aunty, A Female Dog & Her Pack
Field Notes
A street dwelling family has accommodated 3 street animals from the vicinity, including a female whose pups reside on a ground across the street. They have erected a home using a tarpaulin sheet stretched across a boundary wall and held up by bamboos. The lady who lives here, every morning, rides across the street to the ground to meet the pups. Accompanying her is the female dog who gets onto the scooter and rides with her.
Sometimes she brings the puppies to her home so the lady's mother gets to spend time with them. Later in the afternoon she takes them back on the scooter. She drops them outside the boundary wall of a school beside the ground, which is comparatively lower, allowing the pups to jump across. A break in the fencing between the school and the ground allows the pups to pass through and meet with the lady up front who crosses though a tight gap in the boundary wall of the ground.
Nodal Mapping
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The entire scene of the narrative is recreated in a 3D digital medium. This narrates the way in which the female dog navigates through the 'home' on the street to the lady who whistles and calls her while standing on the street with her scooter. The dog then hops onto the scooter and they both cross the street. The female jumps over the school's boundary, crosses over to the ground to meet up with the other dogs and pups from that territory.
Notional nodes were mapped in the 3D environment, mapping familiar spaces like the home, the lady whistling, path from the school and the meeting point on the ground (yellow), to the water in the gutter she drinks (green), and speeding vehicles along the street (red).
Notion Landscape
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Across the entire site, the notions are marked. As a whole, to depict the sensorium developed through activities, smells, sensations and notions, these nodes were programmed to follow each individual in the activity, ranging from cars speeding across the street, familiar spaces of the street dwellers, to the familiar territories where the puppies of the female reside.
The layer of notions is then isolated to build the notional landscape map.
The nodes when programmed to map said activities in real time, give a landscape of notions distorting and building in the physical space.
Moment Articulation
Considering the entire narration as a singular moment for analysis, a path is noted defining the routine movement of the female dog. The pattern depicts one which is generously sprinkled with tones and notions of familiarity, while vigilantly also perceiving speeding vehicles as dangers, hence noted with the tone of fear.
Thermal Comfort
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The thermal analysis for this case is almost obsolete for two reasons. Firstly the bond amongst the family and the street animals is fairly strong, so the street animals will occupy spaces majority of the times around the family. Secondly, the street home has bamboos projecting from a boundary wall covered with tarpaulin sheets, under which the family and the street animals take shelter, providing adequate shading.
