Mining District— Land Of The Mechanical Miners Meghana Toutireddy, Rutvij Saini
Living Museum: Salvaging Le Corbusier’s Floating refuge Arijit Chatterjee, Asha Sumra
Faculty of Architecture AR3036 Monsoon 2021
Jury Citation
A dystopian narrative of a future Ahmedabad. Evocative drawings demonstrating great rigour, precision, and commitment. The juxtaposition of past, present and speculative technologies gives the proposal a sense of reality, despite its fantastical premise. A fiction made manifest in cinematic breadth and scope. Design Description
The story inquires a possible future where robots are increasingly aiding difficult human activities to imagine the destruction of a landscape indifferent to that one that has been shaped over hundreds of years of collective human effort Reflecting on how any natural resource is rationed with additions like dams that are constructed over rivers that move villages and communities for the greater profit of the larger society, this fiction tries to encapsulate the aspects of prosperity and adversity to imagine an exaggerated vision. Such narratives follow a branch of pataphysics as an idea that “the virtual or imaginary nature of things as glimpsed by the heightened vision of poetry or science or love can be seized and lived as real. Pataphysics in a number of statements and examples, including that it is “the science of imaginary solutions, which symbolically attributes the properties of objects, described by their virtuality, to their lineaments In the search for the last sources of energy humans have uncovered rich Neutranium deposits under Sabarmati- a radioactive material that when mined could provide energy for to the human civilisations for the next 200 years. However, realizing the potential harmful effects of staying and working near radioactive mines and contamination of the soil and water, humans have evacuated Ahmedabad using air balloons – a mass exodus. These activities of exporting and mining happen on the background of the landscape of Ahmedabad with the destruction of entire city blocks and to dig up open pits while changing the terrain from a flat interconnected landscape of roads into an irregular topography of dumping sites next to the mines indifferent to the intricate city fabric that was previously A robotic mining district was created by human that processes and exports energy to the human cities, where the Riverfront is a bustling airship hub with the incoming and outgoing crafts. The barge is retrofitted into a navigation vessel that inspects and coordinates the activities at various open pit mines across the city.
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