Pakistan

Mapping Festivities explores weddings in Pakistan as festive events that are a rich expression of cultural traditions. Weddings create a spatial network; opening up a space for different industries and social classes to co-exist. As a connective urban and territorial tissue, these festivities are systems that allow us to live together. We explore the Shadi Hall, a typology that emerged to address the need for a space to serve the wedding performance; a unique architectural typology born out of post-Partition, postcolonial Pakistan. Residential villas transformed into wedding venues through interventions such as the addition of a billboard-inspired entrance façade. The façades, physically and metaphorically, create a permeable boundary between the space of the city and a ‘new’ space for ‘performance’.