AR3031
Humanizing Urban Space: Social Production and Speculative Design of Neighbourhood Place Unit Assistant Shreya Gambhir
Faculty of Architecture AR3031 Spring 2021
4 th Year Riya Pai
Rajiv Kadam
5 th Year
Are Cities today great places to live and enjoy everyday life? This is the critical question still haunting us since the time we defined “City” as a great urban form at the dawn of the Industrial revolution. The critical text against Modernism by Jane Jacobs, ‘The Death and Life of Great American Cities’ (1992), reminds us of the great crisis within the quality of human values in our cities and their decay.
Bhavya Ratadia Dhruv Bhatia Jhanvi Oza Jui Dudhiya Jui Magiawala Vidhi Gajjar Prachi Patodia
There is an urgent need for a critical thought and approach to design and planning of urban form and architecture of cities. The social and cultural patterns of everyday urban life construct the important human values: sense of belonging, identity, safety and a strong and healthy community. The studio focused on developing a theoretical perspective on the problem of humanizing cities and explored urban design and architectural ideas to develop a design for public places in the urban context. The students used the place making theories as a base to first decode the social and cultural patterns of urban life in the project area, then to evolve a theoretical frame for analysis and finally to demonstrate the exploration of a speculative design of the urban space and architectural character
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