8. FUTURE VISION

After replicability of this pilot project, we hope to create an evolving and growing community empowered by collaboration, resilience and innovative use of waste produced. The Nala communities will have a new quality of life from which they do not only live for but work for.

‘The Guiding Book Towards A Nala Community’ is designed to give our technical insight on how to make the best use of the primary structure and clearly state the different possibilities of participation into the pilot projects for the respective actors.

We imagine a housing structure that brings the best of all stakeholders forward and show that multi-disciplinar and multi-scalar approaches can be based on the human perspective of a project.

INTERNATIONAL MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE

at

KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN FACULTY OF BRUSSELS

Faculty of Architecture, campus Sint-Lucas Brussels

By Alejandro Maturana Levon Abrahamyan Maide Taslidere

MAIB 24 DESIGN STUDIO 2022 - 2023 With

Asiya Sadiq Polack

K A R A C H I

The Guiding Book Towards A Nala Community

A Participatory Project For

Flood Resilient Housing

Along The Gujjar Nala

- RESETTLEMENT -

8100m² demolished 1306 people evicted

Pilot project

574 m long 126 homes 9223m² (x2) >1176 people accommodated

- PROJECTION-

150.000m² demolished 50.000 people evicted

Gujjar nala

28 km long 6146 homes 330.000 m² (x2) >57.365 people accommodated

INTROSPECTION

Although we made the presentation of this project, suggesting a scenario in which 70% would be housing, as the statistics on ressetlement required, we still managed to design spaces for work, leisure and gathering.

We designed this project with a lot of good intentions, but got trapped in the amount of technicalities that such projects require. The physical distance between Brussels and Karachi added to the lack of data on the site we chose, made it very difficult to design with more senstivity for the existing situation. We have tried to make a feasable project in the context of Karachi, but designing for communties without being able to physically meet is almost impossible. The physical distance made us unaware that the conceptual descision of the project brought us further away from their practical need and desires.

Affordable housing is more than providing a house to a certain segment of the population. It’s about understanding the preferences of low-income groups, their social realities and how they navigate those realities. The term 'affordable housing’ merits a multi-dimensional understanding of the aspirations of low-income groups vis-à-vis housing. Urban planners need to have a holistic picture of the housing sector and connect it to existing methods of obtaining a house and services by low-income groups. There is great potential in the hands of these communities and it is up to us, Architects and urban planners, to create space for collaboration and mutual understanding.

SOURCES

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THANK YOU

Alejandro Maide Levon

By

Maide Taslidere Levon Abrahamyan Alejandro Maturana

MAIB 24

DESIGN STUDIO

2022 - 2023 With

Asiya Sadiq Polack