PHASED PLAN FOR INFORMALITY

PHASE 1 - TAKING ROOTS

CONDITION: Settlers newly established on site, no jobs, no savings, language barriers

CHALLENGES: Food source, water supply, nearby pollution sources

OBJECTIVES: Treatment of pollution sources, empowering context for community

OUTCOMES: 12 Housing Units (integrated with Productive Landscape) + Wastewater Gardens + Toilets and Septic Treatment + Greywater Recycling system + Bioswale + Community Kitchen

PHASE 2 - GROWTH PHASE 3 - REACHING OUT

CONDITION: Established water and sanitation facilities; The first batch of settlers are able to established with certain social cohesiveness

CHALLENGES: The population and demography in the informal settlement is unstable

OBJECTIVES: Social inclusion among the informal settlers themselves; Enable the newcomers to adapt easier and become contributors in short period

OUTCOMES: Workshop + Nursery + Transformation of bordering streetscape

CONDITION: Comparatively more stable community condition + Capacity to grow food for domestic supply

CHALLENGES: Tenure security

OBJECTIVES: Better collective social and economic resilience + improve social capital, capacity to benefit the nearby community of urbanites

OUTCOMES: More productive landscape + Commercial Zone (Market, Nursery, Eateries, Commercial Plaza) + Buffer for regional food security

The three features as the central focal point are: Community Kitchen, Farming Workshop, and Wastewater Garden (for grey water recycling). The adjacent Central Plaza is built on top of a water tank, for treated water and rain water storage.

Water, most limiting and valuable resource, is the key factor to strategize growth from scarcity. The water treatment system is integrated into the landscape and community space, serving as green and blue infrastructure as a Low Cost Solution.

STRATEGY 2: GROWING FROM SCARCITY STRATEGY 3: SUSTAINING TEMPORALITY SYSTEM

Commercial Zone is designated to be the frontage of the informal settlement, including eateries, an open market and commercial nurseries for selling young plants, compost, and other farming productions for income. Besides edible crops, ornamental and religious plants would also be produced for sales.

Estimated domestic water consumption:

500L per day / 4ppl family

Total residents designed for: 145ppl

Total water consumption: 545m3/month

50% of grey recycling: 272m3/month

Future Collaboration of Stakeholders: Government (BBMP), NGO and Ground-Up Organisations, School, Hebbal Community

The proposal is not intended to come up with a solid design solution for informal settlement, but to strategize a system to enable the informal habitatants to better utilize limited resources, tackle challenges and resolve social and economic issues to a degree. Subsequently, it can improve resilience and engage them as contributors for social developments.