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As the name suggests, this project is about mapping the various flows of water on CEPT campus. During the monsoons and at various times, people experience water in form of these flows, or ‘pravah’s , on the campus, in their surroundings in many different forms and ways. Each of these pravah’s have their particular ‘ prakar ‘or character and each of them is enjoyed and experienced differently by people.
The speculate a unified, integrated water-sensitive campus, i wanted to tie the places which hold this potential to create awareness regarding the presence, conservation, wastage and other factors regarding water on CEPT campus. I wanted my speculative design to be engaging enough to start a conversation or it makes the people feel the presence , while creating a fun, interactive and engaging place.
This mapping was an attempt to render visible these flows, their particular characters, its nature, and the activities that surround it or are generated by it.
By exposing the infrastructure that exist on campus, we can bring new opportunities and instances for people to interact with water. The existing infrastructure tries and replicate the natural flows of water , for drainage purposes, so overlapping the natural flows and the infrastructural flows , an engaging dialogue can be generated between the two, and this would provide ample opportunities for a good design which incorporates small functions instead of a big particular purpose.
As when water flows, it tries to connect places . My speculation was to connect the campus with the help of water. What if the underlying water infrastructure, that these architects and builders try so hard to incorporate in the built form, so as to not expose them are put up on the surface. What if instead of being invisible , they are visible and constantly give a visual emphasis on the consumption and usage, thereby maintaining the importance water holds in our day to day life.
The Pravah and their Prakar created after would be interesting to see, sense and engage.
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Fig 1 Mapping the Flows of CEPT This mapping shows the different ways in which people across CEPT perceive water and flows of water. How they associate different places with water. This mapping was an attempt to render visible these flows, their particular characters, its nature, and the activities that surround it or are generated by it.
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Fig 1.1 Built and Unbuilt Placement of the Buildings which add to the flows on and around the campus. These buildings with the layer of context give an idea and sense of orientation
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Fig 1.2 Open spaces and Context This layer of the mapping shows the surrounding context and the spaces where water flows and how it percolates or flow through
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Fig 1.3 Flows on the campus This layer shows the Natural and other man-made flows that exist on campus and how it travels and what kind of a flow it creates. For example , on paved surfaces water flows smoothly without creating much visual or audible noise, so it is shown through smooth wavy lines.
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Fig 1.4 Speculation Spots These spots are the places where the speculative design method can be implemented. These are chosen because of their placement and the usage it goes through. Also these spots create a spine running north to south on the campus and create a intertwined path for people to enjoy.
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The Water Tower-a tower like structure to initiate the flow of water from canteen That visually manifests these flows with the help of exposed pipelines which act as urban furniture .
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The Exposed Pipes- a series of exposed pipes which run along the south lawns and create interesting spaces with multiple usage. They encourage physical interactions while visually creating awareness regarding usage of water from the buildings
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The Exposed Pipes- a series of exposed pipes which run along the south lawns and create Interesting spaces with multiple usage. They encourage physical interactions while visually creating awareness regarding usage of water from the buildings
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The Unfolding Speculation The Speculative drawing is in form of a miniature drawing. It shows the four speculation spots chosen on campus and shows the design through a continuous drawing . The drawing shows the connecting nature of the design and how it links various activities and places on campus through the medium of water. Designing Water Infrastructure for Civic Expression
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AHMEDABAD CITY MATRIX : Interactive Mapping Ahmedabad Municipal Boundary, 23.0225° N, 72.5714° E
As India rapidly urbanizes its cities become a potential gold mine to begin data collection, big data analytics and data mining. One of the most coveted strategies are for healthcare in the United States, companies are often able to create near perfection prediction modeling on collating data from its citizens on an open and collectively shared platform. India with the largest growth in the youth sector is yet to extend full capacity to understand its city and let its citizens understand the city they live in. Ahmedabad with a five million plus population makes it feasible to deploy open source mapping with data input and output programs. The lack of data and the unwillingness to share that data is beyond unimaginable, both from citizens to the authorities. This presented a condition to begin seeing how we could change that, our target was those related to CEPT Nimesh Bhai [ Peon ]to our peers. The decision to make a three dimensional model was to both please the community but inadvertently add data without feeling like you are giving up something for nothing, a common feeling as understood by our team.
The model was built to have different layers already existent on ArcGIS and OSM. We utilized ArcGIS Application developer to build our online database. However for people to interactive with the map with an easy UI / UX, we custom built our own communication app specifically design for the task. The app currently runs on any iOS device . The code was built using Rhino 3D + Grasshopper parametric modeling, we pulled code from several online sources. Currently we are in the process to develop up this further and present at a Smart City forum. The model currently maps point based data, particularly we have been mapping private bore wells, as they were of concerning interests as they continue to go undocumented. I think there would be very stark conclusions from what the eastern and western Ahmedabad may show. Team : Hetanshu + George Credit : MIT Media Lab + Ryan Zhang GitHub : UD1416 [ search this for our code ]
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Fig 2.3 The exhibit The Ahmedabad City matrix is a way to map information in a context where information is very difficult to gather.
Fig 2.2 Collective model This is how the model was placed, with an iPad stand and iPad as an input device. The data was projected on it from above, the computing happened in a CPU nearby.
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Fig 2.5 The input device to add and view information on the model
fig 2.6 The infrastructure which is placed on the model acts as base data sets for people to add their information on.
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Fig 2.6 Poster for Ahmedabad City Matrix This poster shows how to use the model and how does it work. From top to bottomExploded axonometric view of the model, with all the layers separated ; collective model and components ; how the data input works; how to feed data ; how to view data.
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Narmada Main Canal, 21.8305° N, 73.7485° E - 24°58’24”N 71°28’36”E
Talking about the engineering marvel of India, the Narmada canal, which runs 458 KMs across 2 States till Rajasthan-Gujarat Border, is it only responsible for supplying water or Can it bring more things to the people. Narmada Main Canal is a contour canal. It is the Largest lined irrigation canal in the world. It is about 458 km. Long up to Gujarat -Rajasthan border. It has a capacity to flow 1133 cumecs (40000 cusecs) at its head-at kevadia to irrigate 17 district 79 talukas and 3125 villages of Gujarat and reducing to 71 cumecs (2500 cusecs) at the Gujarat -Rajasthan border. The cross section of the canal, at its head is 73.1m x 7.6m (Bed width x Full supply depth), with 2:1 inner side slope. It has a velocity of water in the initial reach is 1.69 m/sec. The Main Canal is lined with plain cement concrete to minimize seepage losses to attain higher velocity and to control the water logging in future. The Infrastructural Marvel, the Narmada canal , has shown that Its the pinnacle of engineering knowledge in India and Gujarat. But does the Region really require a Engineering marvel? Has the Narmada canal brought people to closer or driven them far apart? Should this existing infrastructure be only used to supply water Or can it form a network to give people, villages and cities what Is really needed and required. Giving people, villages and cities what is really needed and required. In the recent past, humans thought of freshwater as a
constant. Sometimes there was drought, and sometimes there was flood, but water levels always returned to normal eventually. So we built dams and reservoirs, hulking infrastructure they imagined as a bulwark against the pains of any short-term variation, on the assumption that the dry times would end and the basins would refill. Mapping out the settlements within a buffer of 4KMs of the Narmada Canal ( offset on both sides ), it is discovered there are 12345 and settlements along the Main Canal which are so small and insignificant in terms of their population that they are often Excluded while making any large scale changes or implementing any new Resources. Oftentimes there voice in unheard and their needs not met. Mapping these settlements , identifying their proximity to the Main Canal, how they are connected through it , vs What all amenities and infrastructure it lacks , it is possible to Identify the needs of the region as whole and sub-parts along the Linear Canal. This Mapping Tries to bring out the potential that the Narmada Canal withholds and how these insignificant dots on the map can become visible while addressing some larger ecological necessity of the Region. It tries to render visible what is insignificant and tries to identify its potential and thus making it potentially significant.
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Narmada Main Canal, 21.8305° N, 73.7485° E - 24°58’24”N 71°28’36”E
Canal Culture is a speculative design approach , asking the question ‘ What Urban centers can provide to small towns and villages ? . This Project aims to re-design and revisit the connections that people used to hold with water and how they have become almost invisible due to these infrastructures that are built. Taking the example of the Narmada Canal , which is the largest contour canal of the world. Talking about the engineering marvel of India, the Narmada canal, which runs 458 KMs across 2 States till Rajasthan-Gujarat Border, is it only responsible for supplying water or Can it bring more things to the people. Narmada Main Canal is a contour canal. It is the Largest lined irrigation canal in the world. It is about 458 km. Long up to Gujarat -Rajasthan border. It has a capacity to flow 1133 cumecs (40000 cusecs) at its head-at kevadia to irrigate 17 district 79 talukas and 3125 villages of Gujarat and reducing to 71 cumecs (2500 cusecs) at the Gujarat -Rajasthan border. The canal extends further in the state of Rajasthan to irrigate areas in Barmer and Jhalore districts of Rajasthan This Speculative intervention would aim at the villages or smaller settlements which are located spatially along the Narmada Canal, which are so small or insignificant in terms of their presence that often their needs are ignored. The Narmada Canal which promised water to 17 district 79 talukas and 3125 villages of Gujarat for irrigation purposes, which has now diverted its flows for the need of the cities, from which the farmers and the industries have to steal water for their needs, can be transformed into a network which can provide other facilities and basic infrastructural amenities which these villages lack This Speculative approach could illuminate thinking on debates about the roles and responsibilities of universities within their wider social settings. ‘that willing suspension of disbelief’, it
could offer us lessons about the relationship between universities and the cities or regions that host them. Prompts consideration of the dis-juncture that can arise between the Places where we work and where we live. The existing Canal can be used to create these floating structures which can be modulated , interlinked and can float on the canal and comprise of a floating Infrastructural system which can enhance and give a sense of ‘function the existing ‘form’of the Narmada Canal. There are 236 existing structures on the Narmada Canal Through which the transfer of 1,132,400 liters of water per second is made possible. Out of this 236 structures are cross drainage structures, comprising of 5 Aqueducts, 15 canal siphons, 182 drainage siphons, 33 canal crossing and one super passage. There are 89 Regulating structures comprising of 1 Main HR, 44 Branch HR, 32 Cross Regulators and 12 Escapes. There are total 274 nos. Of Road Bridge which make possible The Main Canal in its journey to negotiate several water streams, rivers, roads, railways etc. These structures could form a comprehensive network which could enhance and create opportunities for the local people in the future Canal craft tries to provide basic infrastructures that these villages lack through establishing a network along the canal and different villages acting as stopping points . just like the old infrastructures , these floating modules would have a certain command area and could be modified or changed according to the modularity of the module. This type of a network forms a better system which changes as and when to the situations on hand. Also it would help these villages be more connected and self sufficient in the future
Fig 4 Why Speculate? This Poster shows the speculative approach which would have been taken that led to the construction of Statue of Unity. It is an argument towards what could have been done with the same resources. Designing Water Infrastructure for Civic Expression
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A FLOATING COMMUNITY SPACE. FOR RECREATION
PEOPLE WAITING FOR THE STRUCTURES TO COME BY THE SIDE BUFFER ACTS A GATHERING SPACE WHEN THESE STRUCTURES COME BY A SCHOOL, FLOATING-GATHERING CHILDREN ALONG THE WAY. MAKING LEARNING FUN
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“ LOOK MA, SCHOOL IS HERE ! “ the school is no loger a boring place for the children , where they spend their hours forcefully, rather it becomes a place which intriguies them, encourages them to learn more about their s urroundings and e ngages them in a fun way
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