We are proposing an accupuntural approach to redevelopment that operates tactically and incrementally, redeveloping and building on specific buildings, and redesigning the urban environment at the street level. The Jyoti Nagar Housing Board Flats site can serve as a proof of concept for the city’s commitment to drive a more sustainable future. By nature-based climate solutions and preservation driving the conceptualization of the project, our proposal seeks to create a prototype that can be replicated in other areas across the city to begin to create a larger ecological network.
March 15th, 5:37 PM
Jaipur city is located in center of the jaipur region and the site is in central jaipur. The map shows the open space in Jaipur, which refers to the urban area but building footprints. Thus, open space has several taxonmoies, like green space, public space, infrastructure and vacant land. According to the mapping, vacant land and infrasturcture(road railway, highway) make up the largest proportion of open space in Jaipur. Green space in Jaipur works as fragments and the site is disconnected from the green space network .
Surrounding Amentites
The site and its surroundings are mainly used for residential and the site is surrounded by many amenities, such as commercial, education, health center, restaurants, and bank.
Indian cities have incredible pluralism in landscapes, which means the city has constantly modified and reinvents itself. The kinetic feature of Jaipur city is no exception. We grabbed the most common components in the city. Street vendors, pedestrians, various vehicles, and animals create an evertransforming streetscape in Jaipur. Different time slots witness those components in motion from morning to midnight. Those activities vividly happen in secondary, tertiary, and residential roads and even every fragment of open space between the buildings. The dynamic components flow with time. The parking lot during the day may transfer to a flexible bazaar at night.
Site Analysis
Displacement in India
One outcome of the redevelopment project that we cannot avoid is displacement. We found the development-induced displacement is quite common in India. To achieve rapid economic growth, India has invested in industrial projects, redevelopment projects, roads, power plants, and new cities. The majority of people in India are displaced because of the construction of large dams, highways, metros as well due to the process of urbanization. The land is also acquired for the development of those projects.
The investigation studied the impact of displacement caused by the Jaipur metro project, which officially results in the displacement of 170 residents in Jaipur. And most residents confessed the project has exerted negative impacts on their business, income, employment opportunities, and even family. So we are thinking if Jyoti Nagar intends to thrive and be relevant we suggest redevelopment must be kept to a minimum to avoid the displacement
We were inspired by the work of Ann Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal whose work focuses on environmental, economic, and social tiers, and pays respect to the inherited while striving to act responsibly in the present. Rather than demolishing and reconstructing spaces, their work preserves the aims and aspirations of the original designers and the current occupants.
The Form and Fuction of Landscapes
Area of Focus
Habitat Transitions
Rethink, Reuse, and Recycle
A medium of 533.5mm (21 inches) of rainfall happen a year. The highest annual rainfall 1180 mm (46 inches) and the lowest 137 mm (5 inches).
Developed detention ponds with controlled release. During the monsoon season the native plants help filter rainwater and hold it to prevent flooding along with filtering out pollutants such as solvents, metals, oils, and pesticides. The infiltration that takes place will help to recharge groundwater, and the bioretention will be used to store and treat runoff and release it at a controlled rate to reduce impact on natural waterways and during the dry month the controlled release will be used to help water these areas. over to the right is different native desert/ drought tolerant plantings so when water is lacking the plants will not have an issue to survive.
The design of the open streets, green spaces and nature-based solutions allowed development of streets to provide a need of plumbing.
Inadequate sewerage and lack of proper maintenance for other plumbing facilities is not an issue with the surgical cuts to place these facilites under the roads.
Regenerative Design
Help maintain a healthy dynamic equilibrium.
These designs conserve and reuse material resources in the construction phase and are meant to protect landscapes by reducing forestry, mining, excavation and transport. Ongoing site operations over time can reduce demand for limited off-site resources such as collection of stormwater for irrigation reuse. We believe that stormwater can be harvested from the existing surrounding buildings and streets, treated in surrounding wetlands and then stored in cisterns where it can be supplied for irrigation for the proposed parks and used to help develop the underground plumbing which the community is in need of.
Pioneer species that help fix nitrogen and build soil quality. The native plantings will act as a sieve and enable water to drain through the interstitial spaces of the soil while also capturing road and water runoff pollutants.
Money jobs can operate like a kind of scaffolding, providing brief support, but stick with them long enough and they can become central to what you do and who you are.
The provision of green spaces within the city is critical to build resilience to a changing climate. For the planning, design and management of naturebased infrastructures to extend their ecological, economic, and socio-cultural benefits across Jaipur, all future developments should incorporate relevant open space provisions.
Our team thinks about what is already in place in Jyoti Nagar. We look to the resident’s already in place, the homes they have made for themselves, and the communities they have developed. We question who the majority is that wants redevelopment to take place, and warrant a need to shift these redevelopment principles towards a more inclusive, functional, ecologically sensitive, and residentdriven planning process. If Jyoti Nagar intends to thrive and be relevant we suggest redevelopment be kept to a minimum.
