Kharagpur Railway Settlement

area - 16.2 hectares master plan strategy existing neighbourhood points of densification primary & secondary networks posibilities of built to unbuilt ratio built area & movement corridor densification at the primary network

Such typology is expected to provide space for markets, shops, cafes, tuition classes, gathering spaces, etc. and, which can be further reconfigured as a residential dwelling unit when the need arises.

The old housing stock of the city sits isolated from the changing and growing city around it. With rapid urbanisation around the city, the idea was to design a typology that responds to a. underutilization of land, b. absence of public spaces and changing city conditions.

The purpose behind this sort of a typology was that it not just accommodates the housing aspect of the project, but also has the potential to accommodate the spills of the house and provisions for the neighbourhood.