KEY LEARNINGS

Understanding the Mega event Strategy and Contextualising a Site

Firstly, the Master Plan studio aided us in delayering and understanding of the processes involved in the Olympic Games and how the benefits of it can be translated a neighborhood level masterplanning. The project also helped in analysing the City level and Precinct level context of a given location, to understand complex relationships that exist within the urban fabric of a city.

Deciphering Scale

The project assisted us in becoming comfortable with the scale of a huge Master Plan design and the process of strategizing such a large site with a distinct narrative. The concepts addressed from developing open space strategies, network, mobility, and building type strategies with the lasting Olympic legacy provided a challenging experience of integrating vital urban systems onto a brownfiled site in interesting ways.

Communication of Design

The studio outcomes aided us in effectively presenting our ideas of a Master plan, both in terms of drawings as well as to develop a strong communication strategy. The focus on developing a narrative that explores ideas of post-olympic living scenarios, safe and environment friendly communities for the future was a learning that resonated with reality as well as future oriented.

References

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Newman, H. K. (1999). Neighborhood impacts of Atlanta’s Olympic Games. Community Development Journal, 34(2), 151–159.

Thanjavur Ramakrishnan, R., Marimuthu, BN., Balasubramanian, P., Ramaiah Perumalsamy, GB., Lahoti, R., Vijaykumar, M., Gogri, Y., (2021) ‘LOOPS AS LEVERAGE- Spatial Framework for Circular NeighborhoodsCase of Koundampalayam, Coimbatore.’ https://issuu.com/radoffice/docs/loops_as_leverage

Ijzerman, O. (2018). ‘Towards an Olympic legacy for all: Regeneration oriented design principles for Olympic legacy enhancing the social sustainability of Rotterdam South’ https://repository.tudelft.nl/islandora/object/uuid:6841cb43-c831-44e9-8d95-831e87210ba4?collection=education https://www.sasaki.com/projects/chengdu-tianfu-olympic-sports-city/

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