AR3031 Humanizing Urban Space: Social Production and Speculative Design of Neighbourhood Place

AR3031

Humanizing Urban Space: Social Production and Speculative Design of Neighbourhood Place

Unit Assistant

Shreya Gambhir

Faculty of Architecture AR3031 Spring 2021

4th Year

Riya Pai

5th Year

Bhavya Ratadia Dhruv Bhatia Jhanvi Oza Jui Dudhiya Jui Magiawala Vidhi Gajjar Prachi Patodia Rajiv Kadam

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.

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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Fig 1 Prachi Patodia Abstraction Mapping in the existing neighbourhood of Dhanvantri,Ahmedabad Fig 2 Jui Magiawala Abstract mapping of ‘play’ in the Vijaynagar site, Ahmedabad Fig 3 Bhavya Ratadia Vertical explorations of observed Social and Behavioural Patterns Fig 4 Jui Dudhiya Social and Behavioural Patterns of different user groups on site :Dhanvantri Fig 5 Bhavya Ratadia Proposed plan of Urban Space for Vijaynagar Fig 6 Vidhi Gajjar Volumetric diagram of proposed Masterplan for Vijaynagar Fig 7 Prachi Patodia Proposed plan of Central Urban Space, Dhanvantri Fig 8 Vidhi Gajjar Perspective Section Fig 9 Bhavya Ratadia Volumetric exploration of Urban Edge Fig 10 Jhanvi Oza Volumetric exploration of Urban Edge Fig 11 Bhavya Ratadia Proposed design for Urban Edge Fig 12 Jhanvi Oza Part detail of proposed Urban Edge Fig 13 Bhavya Ratadia Section detail Fig 14 Prachi Patodia 3D Views of Central Open Space and Urban Edge

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Architecture UG Level-3

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