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Riverfront Drive

The riverfront skyline is marked by signature cultural center and shopping mall at the corners with two deep open spaces going deep inside the neighbourhood. The residential plot edges are lined with green cover to enhance the walking experience along the riverfront.

05 Learnings

The studio has helped in undertaking a large scale masterplan project in close proximity to the city. From the onstart, creative background and rationality for the project has realigned the thought process to approach the brief with an imaginative and bold vision and frameworks but grounded in the surrounding context. While the context gave a strong conception anchors for the framework, the magnitude of their influence and importance to the city also brought its own challenges to scale. After freezing down on vision, intent and objectives for the masterplan, developing strategies for various aspects demanded attention to multiple factors influencing the site. Negotiating your ideals for the masterplan with the realities of the vicinity has been a joyful exercise through out the semester. Once the strategy has been zeroed in, design development for various districts required lowering the working scale from the site precinct to a block level. Providing humane and creative solutions to the design questions while staying true to our intent has also been an enormous task. Overall, studio has helped in getting a working understading of an urban scale cleared brownfield project.

I express my immense gratitude to the program chair Brijesh Bhatha and my tutor Vani Herlerkar for insightful guidance. I am also thankful for TA Jugal Bhatt for co-ordinating studio works. I am also deeply grateful for visting lecturors and jurors during mid and end-term. I am also indebted to my unit mates, friends at college and hostel. Last but not the least, profoundly thanks for the support from folks back home and The God Almighty.