UR2008 Designing Water Infrastructure for Civic Expression

UR2008

Designing Water Infrastructure for Civic Expression

Focus

Visualizing and Communicating

Unit Assistant Vaishal Patel

2nd year

Anoushka Mukherjee Ayushi Goyal Elangkumaran S Naved Ahmed

3rd year

Arundhati Hakhu Ishita Singh Kashvi Soni Khushi Jain Shrayana Ray Srushti Rahigude Zankhna Palmist Nishant Mittal Dhara Mittal

“Designing Water Infrastructure for Civic Expression” investigated the many natures and scales of water, and developed an approach to documentation, representation and design techniques to render visible a new collective imagination around water in the city of Ahmedabad and its hinterlands (the built and natural watershed).

Through the studio the students investigated multiple typologies of built and natural infrastructures that enable/disable our engagement with water. Building progressively, they established the relationship of the urban center to its fringes and hinterlands. Consequently, flipping the order from out back to the center, they critiqued and questioned the banality of muted infrastructures. Finally, strategically selecting a scale and typology to intervene with, the students demonstrated the idea of using infrastructure as a medium of civic expression and more importantly public life. Through a series of seminars and workshops, class participants worked incrementally to establish multi-scalar relationships, from the scale of the building, to the city fringes and the territory.

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Planning UG Level-2 Fig 1 Shrayana Ray The Memory Lane, memories of water at Shantinath ni pol Fig 2 Kashvi Soni Re-(scale,join,play) reimagines household water Fig 3 Zankhna Palmist The Purifying Pillar, a sewershed treatment system Fig 4 Anoushka Mukherjee Charge-inwater, an alternate water community Fig 5 Srushti Rahigude The Second Childhood, a water lab at Asarva Talav Fig 6 Elangkumaran Monitor, portables deployed along the Banni Grasslands Fig 7 Arundhati Hakhu Buoyant Belonging, rehabilitating Nisarpur

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