A walk along the beaches of Calicut town would feel like the world is changing around you. From the calm Bhatt road beach, to the Main beach that bustles with people jostling for a place to click picture. The south beach, also known as the social beach, half of which is already a popular zone for tourists and locals alike, expanded its influence down south, to introduce a multitude of other recreational facilities. The waves that hit the beach over and over for as long as the world existed, is not just a place for recreation or an evening outing for the people of calicut, It is a feeling. With the growing needs of the people and exhsaustion of open areas in neighbourhoods, areas of recreation become extremely important in an urban context. At a time when focus needs to be given for the body’s needs of physical fitness, the beachfront behaves like an ideal functional space. Equipped with a cycle track and walkway that runs parallel to the beach road and the coast line, gym equipments are placed at equal intervals to be used by the people. Landscape is blended into the pavements with enough attention given to the balance between hardscape and softscape. Necessary signages, public facilities such as toilets and public seating is also provided in the south beach stretch.
