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Pranit Nevrekar

( B.Arch, Msc. Urbanism & Strategic Planning )

Contact Pranit Ravindra Nevrekar KU Leuven, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Urbanism Master (of Science) of Urbanism and Strategic Planning

Belgium Address - 38, Janseniustraat, 3000, Leuven.

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Contents

1 | Sculpting Landscape In Fleurhof, Johannesburg Design thesis submitted for Master of Urbanism and Strategic Planning at KU Leuven. 05

2 | Genesis, Ten Years Strategy For The Port, Amsterdam Third Semester Design studio project done at TU Delft 17

3 | Thuân An Archipelago, Settling the Tam Giang-Cau Hai Lagoon Park, Hue Second Semester Design studio project based in Vietnam done at KU Leuven with Rebecca Hung. 25

4 | The Street for The People, A Manifesto for ‘Living C R Park’, Delhi Urban Design Competition entry organised by Green Community Initiative (GCI), short-listed in Top 10 . 33

5 | One Central Avenue, Luxury Residential Tower, Mumbai Project at Kapadia associates Design L.L.P. (Collaboration with SCDA, Singapore). 41

6 | Ethnoscape for Biofuel, Research and Awareness Center for Biofuels, Nashik Design thesis submitted for Bachelors of Architecture at Mumbai University. 51

7 | Eternal Aboard, Vertical Cemetery, Tokyo Architectural Design Competition entry organised by Death by Architecture magazine 63

To Access the entire research of the thesisVolume 1 - https://issuu.com/pranitnevrekar/docs/sthesis_booklet_volume_1 Volume 2 - https://issuu.com/pranitnevrekar/docs/spranit_thesis_volume_2

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1 – Sculpting Landscape In Fleurhof | Johannesburg Design thesis submitted for Master of Urbanism and Strategic Planning at KU Leuven Johannesburg was founded in the middle of nowhere, as a result of the discovery of huge gold reserves in 1886. It sustained the mining industry until the late 1960s when many of the mines started closing down and left behind a toxic landscape of tailings storage facilities. In apartheid-era, the mine belt was actively used to segregate black townships from the more affluent and formerly white neighbourhood in the north. At the same time, the geographic constrains makes Johannesburg vulnerable to ever-increasing droughts and water scarcity situation. The negative externalities of it affect more to the less privilege people and create a new “Environmental Injustice”. In recent time, the minebelt area is deemed fit for suburban development thus opening up new opportunities. Fleurhof one of such cluster situated in the middle of mining belt and was considered as a possible link to connect Florida in the north to Soweto in the south and address the social divide.

This thesis rethinks of mine landscape as an opportunity to create an environmentally more just city.

It reimagines the post-mining landscape as common space that drives spatial transformation.

At the same time, the thesis recognizes the challenges of the climate crisis and the exploration focuses on how water sensitive urban design can be embedded within the neighbourhoods in and around a new development in Fleurhof. .

Fig. 1.1 Project in the context of the cluster / MRA

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Clean and Recycle

New Vegetal Structure

Collective Living The objective of this design research is to find a way to develop a water sensitive urbanism that builds on the existing aquatic ecosystem and protects it while providing a solution for water security in the future. The design looks at mine tailings as a void, and naturalization of it can restore environmental injustice faced by people living in Fleurhof and Soweto at the same time use it a collective space for people from Florida, Fleurhof, and Soweto and make Fleurhof a social link between two segregated areas. The intention is to introduce recycling and harvesting culture in Fleurhof and surrounding urban fabric with the help of different types of urban interventions that work on a different scale. The intention is to create a new landscape framework that emphasises on five methodological strategies.

1. Clean and Recycle: . The strategy makes use of different natural and artificial cleaning mechanisms to purify the wastewater. Apart from water, the soil is also contaminated and Phytoremediation techniques are used to natural cleaning of soil as well as stabilization of the mine dumps.

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Delay and Store

Renewable Energy 2. New Vegetal Structure: The new vegetal structure aims at using vacant lands and open spaces as an opportunity for urban afforestation patches that can be ‘productive’, ‘recreational’ or ‘ecological’ typologies.

3. Delay and Store: The intention is to increasing permeable surfaces and employing microinterventions in public vacant lands to slow down the water and refill the groundwater.

4. Collective Living: The new urban fabric aims at developing a communal way of living as opposed to individualist way transport that can be aided by the soft mobility routs to enhance reachability.

5. Renewable Energy: Given the fact of large sunny days, the land of mine dumps can be used for energy production. Solar energy and biomass from the trees can be used to create a renewable source of energy for the surrounding areas.

The Riverscape

The New Valley

The Tailings

The Third Nature

Fig. 1.2  These strategic operations are intertwined and interdependent and work as a toolbox, which is employed in four scales in the territory namely The Riverscape, The New Valley, The Tailings and The Third Nature.

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Legend Fig. 1.3  The Landscape figure is made up of public parks, open spaces accompanied by two soft mobility corridor that runs along with contours. The soft mobility routes are interwoven with public amenities in the collective landscape. The vacant places created surrounding valley are used for the development of housing, institutions, public space and infrastructure as per demands. The buildings will have an interactive edge of shops, restaurants facing the pedestrian boulevards. As a part of Third nature, open spaces and vacant land in existing settlements are fitted with public functions, parks, collective water storage and cleaning facilities along with new developments to give them a new identity.

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Urban Agriculture

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Collection Tank

Community Centre

Wetland Park

Bioremediation Ponds

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Part Section A - Rain Garden introduced in the landscape around the community centre that can use as an amphitheatre. Rain-garden will help surface runoff to slow down and also harvest the rain.

Recreational Area

Collective Courtyard

Part Section C - Roadside bi pedestrian surfaces.

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Rain Water Storage

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Treatment bed /Second Purification Bed

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Part Section B - Collective Courtyards within New housing types can Accommodate many purposes such as urban farming, recreation and decentralised natural Wastewater recycling Unit

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Living By The New Valley The site for new development is located next to the Fleurhof new housing complex and presents an interesting set of existing ecological system and variety of urban fabric. Living by the new valley explores a robust landscape structure made up of public spaces to strengthen the interactions between the available natural landscape (the riverfront) and artificial landscape (mine dumps). Design strategies for the new development emphasis on reducing the built footprint by compact high raise building typologies and provide collective safe spaces of assorted identities within them. Another aim is to shrink the overbuilt hard infrastructure and create blue-green infrastructure along soft mobility corridors.

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Rainwater Filtration and Collection along the road

Multifunctional ground Floor

ioswale network will filter stormwater runoff from streets and

The design is guided by a dominant green figure that forms the urban green spine and is sandwiched by the urban fabric. This creates two fronts for the urban tissue; one facing ‘Natural’ riverine landscape while other faces the urban landscape. The green spin is a big public park entwined with amenities and civic buildings such as schools, markets etc. and the soft mobility lines that runs along with the riverine front and urban front to bind them together and creates safe walking and cycling path.

A big Wetland park designed in the riverfront area that helps in restoring the ecosystem. Series of trails within the park that leads to the bordering pedestrian avenue and further north to the tailings landscape area. The big pedestrian avenue the connects new residential cluster with the old Fleurhof cluster and stretches all the way to Fleurhof lake in the north; while, many river crossings for pedestrians ensures connection between the Fleurhof and Soweto.

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Bioswale

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Rainwater Filtration and Collection along the road

hade covered and well-lit pedestrian avenue integrated on at the ground floor to enhance safety

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Diversity in activities on the ground floor that faces pedestrian avenue, Series of wide-open areas between buildings aided by well-lit pathways ensures safe passage for pedestrian movement will reduce crime. The new housing typologies have courtyards. The courtyards create a pores layer of urban voids inside built that can be used as semi-public, collective spaces.

The collective space is a multifunctional space that can accommodate different functions as per the size of the courtyard.

Wetland Park; Redefined river front with pedestrian Avenue. The riparian vegetation in wetland parks restore the natural cleaning capacity of the river and is aided by bioremediation ponds that clean wastewater and AMD water before releasing it into the river.

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Urban Void; Multi Functional courtyards between new residential cluster. Large green spaces can be used as

a playground or urban farms, while, smaller courtyards can be used for recreational purposes. The courtyards also provide space for natural wastewater recycling units.

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2 – Genesis, ten years strategy for the port | Amsterdam Third Semester Design studio project done at TU Delft The port of Amsterdam is undergoing a massive transition and the port area near city centre is being replaced by housing and other functions. Haven-Stad which thought to be a new extension of Amsterdam city that expands both sides of the river IJ. The area will shortly be home to more than 150,000 people.

However, this transition has resulted in tension between port activity and living tissue. the sudden transformation also results in loss of identity. The sense of place is lost due to the blind takeover of real estate development. In addition, such developments do not offer any benefits to surrounding areas and existence of industries deprives the new residents from better living quality..

The area of coenhaven, vlothhaven along with minervahaven are in a stratagic position with respect to the centre. it is inside the ring of Amsterdam and within the cycling distance from the central station. In accordance with the “marking time” agreements in the 2014 council programme, residential development up to 2030 is not permitted in this area, and different port activities are deemed to move out to make way for the housing development which provide us with the ten years and a window of opportunities to act and guide the future development. .

Fig. 2.1 Project in the context of the cluster 2 MRA

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Fig. 2.2  Image 1 shows the Transition of port area and surrounding urban tissue along with opportunity area with housing restrictionin red. Image 2 shows public transport accessibility and port area without any connectivity.

Functional transition is a trend which have seen regularly in the port area. As water was transform in to farm land and then slowly given back to water to become port. Now the same port is getting transformed into living and working. However coexistence of port activities and industries are sometimes negative externalities that should be taken care off. This results in lack of proper living quality for the citizens. The port area is also one of the most disconnected area in Amsterdam thus keeping it isolated from the rest of the city.

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1 Accessibility and Visibility

2 Destination

3 Purification

4 Algae Innovation

Fig. 2.3  The four Elements of Genesis.

The question is how can we utilize ten years to guide future development while retaining or recreating identity of the port that will also create living environment for the people? and how can this living environment will benefit not only the new residents but the one in surrounding areas as well and give them sense of place?

Genesis is the process of utilizing these 10 years to create commons to retain and build up on identity of the area. It is a process which will guide future development by creating commons and area of interest for people which will help creating better living conditions, connect to people through participation and help attracting investors.

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Genesis follows four elements to be developed in phases namely, accessibility and visibility, creating destinations, purification, algae innovation.

These elements though will be developed phase wise in the span of ten years however, it doesn’t necessarily be one after other approach. All the elements are interdependent and forms action reaction process with each other and the site then reacts to these processes. the demand of housing and existing approach of expanding city to port will act as driving force to steer the project.

Fig. 2.4 Abandoned train tracks area are converted in green spine which will have bike way and pedestrian ways to increase accessibility. In future these spine can also be aided by Tram line connecting the port to Amsterdam Central and a ferry connection will connect it to other side of the river IJ.

Fig. 2.5 The strategy to increase accessibility is aided by activating different spaces with the help of reusing warehouses with mixed function and creating places of interest for people to visit

Fig. 2.6 Natural sedimentation and wetland creation will help water purification, the green spine will also help reduce pollution thus further helping the cause of creating better living environment.

Fig. 2.7 A micro-algae park can start with the help of oil company on pilot basis to use as fuel for electricity generation. Aided by R&D centres the pilot plant can grow further to create big biofuel park and old power-plant can be reused to generate electricity from biofuels.

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Legend Bike Way

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1 Warehouses are opportunities to start new activities in dead space to create destinations.

First, Accessibility and visibility; the port area is one of the most inaccessible area in Amsterdam and thus it is important to enhance the accessibility. The existing abandoned train tracks becomes the main spine with ‘bike path’ and ‘trees’. the tracks will get converted into common parks for people. The vehicular mobility will be reduced gradually and an enhanced walking experience with the help of increased tree cover will invite more people in the area. this process can further aided

by Tram Line running in the same line to connect port to Houthhaven and Amsterdam Central. and a ferry service will help people go on the other side of the river with bike Second, creating destinations: the accessibility goes hand in hand with destinations, which will attract people. The strategy focuses on creating places of interest within the area. The big warehouses in the areas will be reused as mixed-use functions such as library, sports club, restaurants, markets and other innovative and small businesses. These places are in the vicinity of green spine thus creating network of many public spaces.

2 Abandoned train Tracks are converted to Park with bike-ways

Third, purification, the land and water is polluted due to industrial use and solid and water purification is a necessity. The purification process follows natural purification by plants in the water and land. Deliberate Sedimentation in the area can become wetlands, which will also help water purification and create new eco system.

Finally, Algae Innovation, in which a pilot microalgae park can be developed in oil port area across the highway. This park along with the green spine will become a green buffer between port and living environment. The Power plant can be reused to generate electricity by bio-stock or biofuel from the algae thus making a transition toward sustainable form of energy.

3 Oilport is converted to algae park paving way to sustainable energy transition Fig. 2.9 Some of the key strategies in creating different activities in the port area to activate spaces, preserve identity of the ptort area and creating commons for people

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The ten years strategy is a process that will enhance citizen engagement with the place thus creating consensus amongst them regarding the expectation from the ‘New’ port.

Fig. 2.10  Interpretation of rail tracks area converted into a common park, the ware house on the side will act as activity center and host fuctions such as sports activity, library, restaurants, art galleries which will be extended into the publc park This park will be act as catalyst to connect people with the site and creating identity.

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3 – Thuân An Archipelago, Settling the Tam Giang-Cau Hai Lagoon Park | Hue Second Semester Design studio project based in Vietnam done at KU Leuven with Rebecca Hung.

Thuan An, located at the coast of Hue, a former imperial city of Vietnam, is part of a coastline which hosts one of the largest lagoon ecosystems in Southeast Asia; the Tam Giang-Cau Hai Lagoon. It possesses a vulnerable yet economically important feature of the territory. A dune landscape is to protect the lagoon, but it is simultaneously under constant threats from ever-expanding urban tissues and extensive aquaculture. The design studio was held at i Lagoon area, and a group of 15 students visited the region for on 2 weeks of extensive workshop along with local universities and government bodies. The aim was to study the lagoon region, understand the morphology, landscape, ecology, cultural and social context to develop a vision for the whole region. The second part of the study was to design detailed projects for strategic sites within the region that will act as a catalyst in the implementation of the Vision plan Thuan An is one of such areas that situated in the mouth of the lagoon, experiencing development pressure from Hue city as well as consequences from the climate crisis, revealing challenges from living demands and inland flooding. As the IPCC presents, the growing severity of sea-level rise will affect the lagoon as it is already vulnerable and polluted due to over-exploitation of aquaculture. Thuan an archipelago thinks of flooding condition as an opportunity to protect clusters of settlements with the help of both hard and soft infrastructure by allowing water to flow into agriculture land to mitigate excess amount of water.

Fig. 3.1 Project in the context of Thuan An area and surrounding

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Fig. 3.3  Vision plan for Settling the Tam Giang-Cau Hai Lagoon Park. Developed in Studio assignment by Landscape urbanism studio (Spring Semester 2019).

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City Dike

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The Vision looks at the whole region as a "Park of human and dead' that extends in the foothills to be a part of larger National park. The idea is to strategically allow flooding in flat areas, and enhance water transport connectivity. The Vision also demonstrate the new development strategies where flat lands are restricted from further development and foothill areas are urbanised, while doing so it also provides strategies to protect existing settlements in flatlands by converting them into islands and developing combination of hard and soft infrastructure around them while also create opportunities for urban renewal in these areas.

Google map of Thuan An area and surrounding

Flooding condition includes sea level rise and seasonal rainfall

Fig. 3.4 Archipelago concept during climate crisis

Direction of water flow in summer

Fig. 3.5 Different barrier solution according to environment conditions

Due to the location at the river mouth, the area receives different direction of water flow according to seasons, causing both territorial sedimentation and erosions.

The strategy seeks to simultaneously work with water through investigations of flooding levels and micro-topography to allow a natural flow of water during severe conditions and protects higher grounds for urban development, thus forming archipelagos. “Giving the land back to the water” is the driver of the project by adapting aquaculture and agriculture plots as water retention areas whereas settlements will be protected in clusters to form the archipelago system.

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Direction of water flow in winter

The dunes at the forefront of the coast are highly urbanized yet the most vulnerable part of the landscape. Thuan An area will act as a new city centre to take in excess population to ease the density on the sand dune and restrict new developments within. The archipelago forms under different strategies to protect the settlements, responding to water forces and current socialeconomic activities. Obtaining strong water force, hard engineered edge will occupy the area in proximity with the river mouth, collaborating with the existing port and thus extends to the lagoon area (in red). Soft ecological edge enables wetland biodiversity and mangrove to thrive (in blue and green)

Scenario for designed port activity

Seawall

Scenario for implemented production land

Port

Market

Dike

New Development

Public Park and Orchards

Scenario for new cemetery park

School

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Fig. 3.6 Scenario for designed port activity

Fig. 3.7 Scenario for designed port activity

Fig. 3.8 Scenario for designed port activity

Fig. 3.9 Scenario for designed port activity

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Fig. 3.10 Plan and section for the selected strip and highlighted zone for hard infrastructure edge and soft infrastructure edge

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Cemetery Park

Scenario for the new relationship of settlement and mangrove

Integrated Settlement and mangrove

Hard engineering edge, integrated with protection walls, is to deal with a stronger force of the water. The redevelopment of the port act as a multi-utility place with a ferry, fishing, markets along with recreation activity. It also forms the next protection layer of the hard edge after the wall. An Urban Park, forming the green axis, utilises abandoned areas for fruit production to enhance the local economy. Renovation of the existing settlements will gradually be carried out under individual demands or the decline of the buildings.

Soft ecological edge is proposed on the inner side of the lagoon by a combination of mangrove and wetland ecosystems.

Integrated within the urban tissue, the soft edge forms the ‘Green-Blue’ tissues.

The existing isolated cemetery will be connected by pathways and opened to the public. Its extensions will integrate with the wetland, forming the city for the dead. Mangrove forests are introduced in immense amount for sedimentation and mitigation of the water flows. Together, they provide mild treatment for water cleansing as well as the protection of the settlements.

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Extension for the current port intensifies local involvements, enhancing the fishing business by providing markets and recreations that allows the public to join freely. Fruit production landscape provides a green space for the inhabitants and functions as a water mitigation area during urgent conditions.

The cemetery is integrated with the mangrove biodiversity, creating a city for the dead that allows local tradition to nourish in an ecological way. Settlements on the edge will be protected by an immense amount of mangroves. It is both for the water flow mitigation and a moderate natural process of land reclamation. In proximity to the soft edge of the Thuan An island, wetland biodiversity will benefit natural cleaning of the water and a mechanism for water mitigation. The landscape created will provide a new quality of lives and opportunities for the future.

Fig. 3.11 Urbanization takes part in the centre of the island, providing housing demands as well as the amenities for local liveability. Settlements are concentrated in the centre whereas commercial area and public buildings are close to the border of the island acting as an intermediary space during extreme flooding conditions

Fig. 3.12 New amenities such as schools and offices will maintain its social activity during the urgent condition through both plinth structure and working simultaneously with the green surrounding to increase the permeability of the land

Fig. 3.13 Detail section on the public spaces in proposed urbanization area

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Fig. 3.14 Before. One of the densely populated area of the lagoon, Thuan An region confronts issues of old settlements vulnerable to annual flooding and storms. The Nature of this old settlement and its strategic location accounts for growing population in the region.

Fig. 3.15 In 2100, under spontaneous renovation and urbanization, settlements are able to live with water and with newcomers occupying the city. During high water level, the water-flows naturally forming Thuan an island and the activities of the inhabitant still maintains.

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4 – The Streets for The People, A Manifesto for ‘Living C R Park’ | Delhi Urban Design Competition entry organised by Green Community Initiative (GCI) Chittaranjan park (CR Park) area situated on the south-east part of the Delhi NCR and is distinct in population, density and socio-economic status. Unlike many Indian cities, south Delhi is fortunate to be interspersed with large open spaces, planned market areas, institutions and broad streets that are the neighbourhoods’ assets. However, the streets here are dominated by cars, and despite a larger number of pedestrian movement, the soft mobility infrastructure is lacking. A community-led forum named ‘Chittaranjan Park Green Community Initiative (GCI)’ with the support of other NGOs organised a design idea competition to betterment CR park area. The initiative’s focus was on two market places within the neighbourhood along the Bipin Chandra Paal road. This road is also the most socially active street in the neighbourhood. The ideas design competition aimed to redesign marketplaces and the surrounding area, which will catalyst the neighbourhood’s change.

Rather than giving top-down solutions to the problem the idea is to create a manifesto of tools, These tools can be implemented not only in BC Paal road but also everywhere within CR Park to achieve superior walkability on the streets, thus enhancing the quality of life within the neighbourhood. The Manifesto for “Living CR park” Creates a broader framework that will support the detailed design proposal for the market no one and surrounding areas. At the same time, the Manifesto is not a given top-down solution; there is always scope for additions and subtractions that can be suggested by people as per their requirement.

Fig. 4.1 Project in the context of the Market at Chittaranjan park

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RECLAIMING STREETS

Wider Footpath Car Activity in the street is reduced by widening the footpath area, to create better walking conditions for pedestrians, safe passages for children.

Cycleway On Footpath Rather than having cycle paths on street that are usually are encroached by parking vehicles.

Cycle paths are on pedestrian level is shared with pedestrians.

Designated Hawkers Area

Green System And Canopy Cover Green system and rightly chosen trees along with existing trees to create canopy cover to reduce effect of extreme heat that Delhi faces during summers.

Designated hawkers area will informal vendors, where seating will also be provided for Gol-gappe or Tea stalls. Apart from these parking can be use

Safe & Frequent Crossings Crossings and geriatric designs in pavement will increase accessibility and safety of the users. At the same time it will enhance the walking experience

Gathering Spaces Some walls can be converted in to green shelves or small library that are initiated by people.

Such space will become local gathering spaces for residents

SAFE & SUSTAINABLE STREETS

Green System And Canopy Cover Green system and rightly chosen trees along with existing trees to create canopy cover to reduce effect of extreme heat that Delhi faces during summers.

Designated Hawkers Area Designated hawkers area will informal vendors, where seating will also be provided. Parking can be use as floating hawkers space on alternate days.

CULTURAL INTEGRATION VIA SIMPLE POLICY CHANGES

No Car Weekends Every weekend night the vehicular movement on the street can be stopped for some time to make way for people using whole street.

Activities like Walking, cycling, playing and the market can be extended on street.

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Festival Time During the festivals such as Durgapuja, Kalipuja, Ganeshpuja the streets can become place for carnival. The vehicular access is stopped making way for festival activities to expand on street.

Re-arranging Parking The new cumulative underground parking is a need in the area. After which the street parking can used as a floating space to occupy informal vendor, outdoor seating area and small landscape areas.

CAR/BIKE PARKING

PUBLIC PARK (DURGA PUJA)

LOCAL ADDAS

PROPOSED UNDERGROUND CAR PARKING WITH PUBLIC PLAZA ON THE TOP

HAWKERS AREA BUS STOPS

MARKET SQUARE MARKET PLAZA

Fig. 4.2 Project in the context of the Market at Chittaranjan park

The Manifesto consists of different type of intervention tools distinguished in three categories. Firstly, “reclaiming the streets”, tools such as wider footpath, cycleway, hawkers area and green structure are listed in this category. Using these tools individually or in combination will help reclaim streets from cars for pedestrian use and improve the walkability of the road. Secondly, “safe and sustainable street”, these tools work for the safety and accessibility of the streets and create sustainable streets. Tools such as permeable parking will use porous pavements for the parking areas along the roads to absorb rainwater and recharge groundwater. Having many crossings and signing for differently-abled people will make streets safe while creating gathering places along the footpaths will create a secure environment for children and reduce crime incidents. lastly, small policy changes in street usability will help in creating a culturally, socially active street.

“No Car Weekends “is one such policy where the road can be closed for a vehicular moment on weekend nights and will become extraordinary activity precinct for residents. It will create small playgrounds for kids on the street, temporary performance areas, extended market, or meet out places for residents.

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The Market as an ‘Adda’ The ambition of this Manifesto is to create different multi-scalar ‘Addas’ for people of Chittaranjan park.

These ‘Addas’ can be a gathering space around footpaths, hawkers areas, or bus stops. Market place Becomes the ‘grand Adda’ of the story, which is home to not only shopping activity but also has cultural and religious significance. The market and surrounding are redesigned to be a plaza that will be a focal point of public gathering and meeting.

One of The main aims of redesigning the market is to improve the shopping experience for people, Simple yet vital interventions such as roof canopy can be part of the solution to address roofing and ventilation problems in the market. The roof can also be equipped with translucent sheets, and solar panels to give ample daylight and produce electricity for the complex. The market plaza that was overtaken by car parking can then be turned into a public plaza that can host outdoor seating places for restaurants and small landscape elements that will enhance its experience.

Renovated pavements and façade elements can further enhance the visual appeal of the places.

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Fig. 4.3 Vision Plan. The market places in CR park have become that focal point which will have a more significant impact on the locality. The design solution provided by me gives ‘decision making’ power back to people and takes authorities the helm to steer the process. By creating the connection between park and market while also trying to take back the streets from cars, the design aims as creating dedicated Public spaces for the community that is accessible for everyone.

Fig. 4.4 Market Plaza, the difference between road and market is negotiated with the help steps that mimic “kund” and makes sitting places for people.

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Fig. 4.5 The central courtyard, few sitting places and better pavement facility will enhance the experience of the space

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Fish Market Canopy

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Footpath

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Central courtyard

Food plaza

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Front Plaza Fig. 4.8 Section C

Fig. 4.9 The Front Plaza, current parking place is designed as a plaza where people can come sit, converse and shop at the same time.

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Fig. 4.10 Plaza surrounding, pedestrian access, cycle parking area will make people walk to the market rather than taking cars. The advertisement banner on elevations are redesigned with facade and dedicated advertisement space.

1. BUS STOP Previous bus stop design and location would create negative space behind. The new design eliminates the back panel with the help of minimal roof structure and creates a visual connection between the backside and front. this approach will get rid of negative space that is often neglected today.

2. CULTURAL WALL Compound walls create visual barriers between public spaces such as gardens and streets. Metal or wooden shelves installed on these walls where people can voluntarily put things such as planters, decorative items, idols, sculptures, books. And will create cultural gathering spaces.

3. HAWKERS AREA Designated hawkers area on the footpath will create local “Addas”, this will also help in freeing up footpath encroachment. The newly assigned will also have outdoor seating and will help to create secondary gathering areas for people of CR Park.

4. INFORMATIVE WALL At the same time compound wall can also be used as a display board to showcase local art. Artist from the neighborhood can display their art and will create an art walk. The walls can also have informative graphics that provide information about the history and culture of the area and country.

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Redesigned Street with footpaths, cycle paths on “NO CAR Weekend” Fig. 4.11 The BC Paal road on “NO CAR Weekend” will become a hotspot for public activities and provide safe place for residents. Three public Parks are present along the road; one is right next to the market. Rather than treating these parks as a different entity, it can become part of the public space at the market square. Modest solutions such as redesigned boundary walls and footpath to enhance the visual connections lost by current tall brick wall partitions can make the park more accessible. By creating the connection between park and market while also trying to take back the streets from cars,

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5 – One Central Avenue, Luxury Residential tower | Mumbai Project at Kapadia associates Design L.L.P. (Collaboration with SCDA, Singapore).

Mumbai, the centre of ancient and modern India is her most cosmopolitan city, thriving with life and the colourful cross cultures of India with the rest of the world.

Located in the heart of uptown Mumbai, the site is located in the strikingly affluent suburb of Santa Cruz West with views of Juhu beach in the horizon. It is our sole mission to provide a design that is elegantly distinctive, sensitive to the inherent beauty of natural materials by expression through clarity in construction details and elements in architectural expression.

The design strives to provide a refuge of tranquility and exclusive luxury to its residents, fore fronting the standard of contemporary architecture that is mixed with a careful blend of vernacular elements that are nostalgically relevant to the Indian culture. This refuge, qualified by space, light and structural order and aligned with the holistic design ethos of our further aims to be a timeless icon in the skyline of Santa Cruz West.

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The site, which is an amalgamation of two plots of land will be redeveloped into two 14-storey and 9-storey towers to be exclusively sold and house existing tenants, respectively. Connected by an elevated green landscaped podium with innovative facilities for its residents, the design palettes of well-crafted hardscape, lush greeneries as well as water features further reiterate a smooth transition from the bustling city to the resident’s doorstep. This engenders a sensuous engagement between the built environment with natural elements.

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The 14-storey sales tower consists of nine luxurious typical four bedroom units and the four-storey Penthouse that belongs to the Managing Director of Radius.

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The provision of balconies and chajjas as horizontal elements wrapping the facade not only provide sufficient weather protection from the tropical sun and monsoon rain, but also further emphasizes the angularity and strength necessary to support the functionally odd shaped floor planes. Within these horizontal bands, Our aims to further explore the syncopated rhythms of intersecting vertical elements, reminiscent of the traditional ‘jali’, but expressed through contemporary materials.

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6 – Ethnoscape for Biofuel, Research and Awareness Center for biofuels | Nashik Design thesis submitted for Bachelors of Architecture at Mumbai University.

Ethnoscape’ is a term coined by arjun appadurai in his essay “dis-juncture and difference in the global cultural economy” (1990). ethnoscape is defined as “the landscape of persons who constitute the shifting world in which we live.” an essential feature of the world and appear to affect the politics of nations to a hitherto unparalleled degree” ETHNO + SCAPE = ETHNOSCAPE Ethnos means people who are with same distinctive or goal or vision, these people think similarly and work toward changing the surrounding. Ethnoscape is place which act as catalyst for change, thus providing all necessary means for the change. ethnoscape for biofuel means a facility which is looking forward to new sources of sustainable fuel, where people brought together through activity related to biofuel, with the goal of finding a sustainable solution to the impending fuel crisis. which will change world in an unparalleled manner.

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the thesis aims at making India a biofuel nation in the coming 50 years. this will be a massive change in the field of fuel industry and make India self-dependent without any oil imports government of India will save lots of money which can be used in developing the infrastructure of rural parts. while states in Southern India already have started to develop a biofuel culture it’s still not up to the mark, with less research and awareness biofuel programs are not going to beyond a particular limit in Maharashtra there has been no development in the field of biofuel bearing 2-3 attempts in Ahmednagar and Nashik district.

the objective of the design I to have a structure which is itself is revolutionary. to make a self-sustaining campus which will work to make India self-sustaining in the fuel industry and make it a fuel-rich nation. this will be the start of the revolution, a revolution to change the Indian economy, revolution to make Indian farmer financially stable, a revolution to develop rural areas. thus, the concept of building revolves around defining change, a change is characterised by a path which leads us. this path goes through three inevitable loops namely Awareness, Research & Mass production.

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The awareness centre in the master plan will act as the main guidance centre for the farmers around to make them understand the importance and benefits of jatropha plantation. It will serve as a centre for providing training of cultivation and oil extraction processes to the farmers and youth. The master plan also evolved to utilize a large amount of wasteland to grow jatropha plant and experiment with biofuel production. There will be a state of art research and development facility which will work towards many factors such as standardizing afro-techniques, the establishment of a model for jatropha plantations, developing superior seeding and tree improvement and development methods.

Setting up of oil extraction, trans-esterification units. It also incorporates research laboratories and pilot plant facilities to experiment with biofuel technology, to address the issues and produce biofuel technology. The site is also proposed to have an exposition centre which will host an annual biofuel exposition to encourage collaboration and interaction of global industries. Which will also help to promote jatropha plantation and related technologies in global as well as Indian market.

The site will incorporate biofuel plots, pavilions and recreational facilities as well as sustainable housing for delegates and visitors

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Research lab forms the main component of the centre. The three major parts of the research lab which are experiment labs, support lab and scientists area. a movement corridor forms the spine of connections, this corridor designed to achieve mental sustainability and reduce mental stress that scientists are subjected to due to their monotonous and lengthy research work. this is achieved by integrating landscape elements within the areas that connect scientist’s area and lab areas. the location of the support lab is kept central around which experiment labs are designed to ease the circulation flow for the user. the building hosts a large botanical garden that can act recreational space for the users.

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7 – Eternal Aboard, Vertical Cemetery | Tokyo Architectural Design Competition entry organised by Death by Architecture magazine Amidst all the chaos and hardships we face, all humans yearn for peace and harmony. This place is, in a way, emblematic of the peace that we yearn for as we return to our origins in the form of natural elements after life ends. As I enter the ‘Eternal Aboard’, I see children playing, families spending time together and a beautiful landscape plaza on the ground floor which rustles up a wave of positivity within me.

As I pootle down the road, I search for the entrance to the structure which is excellently camouflaged in the landscape plaza. The urn’s chamber level has an adjacent gathering space for families to perform certain rituals preceding the burial and after it. Urn’s chamber is a digitized space where I have to keep the urns in a core. It draws from the concept of a Rubik’s cube.

The core converts into an LED memory wall which shows the flashback memories of the deceased.

Once the rituals have been performed, I plant a tree in the memory of the lost soul in the area dedicated for eulogy. Over time, there will be many trees that will benefit the ecosystem. It’s also poetic how every passing will contribute to life in this way. There is a meditation hall which glows in the dark, creating an illusion of a floating heavenly body. People assemble here to relax and cherish the memories of the departed.

In conclusion, this place epitomises that a space becomes dry and inexpressive not because it is meant for the burial of the dead but because of its absence of life.

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URNS CHAMBER: Urn’s chamber is made up of the central core, pathway and tree plantation space. The central core is for storing the urns which converts into a digitalized led screen where one can recollect the memories with the help of projected images of the deceased. It rotates like a Rubik’s cube.

It has a number panel where you need to press the number allotted to the urn you are carrying.

The chamber will move like the Rubik’s cube and present the respective urn in front of you.

This gives a new experience which is very interactive and one can relate themselves with the deceased.

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After keeping the urn in the core you have to plant one tree for each urn. The trees help in reducing overall carbon foot print of the city as well maintains the ecosystem. Trees also acts as a barrier between the facade of the building and weathering agents. Titanium oxide paint will be applied to the surface of the windows which shall purify the surrounding air by absorbing pollutants from it.

Despite being a cemetery tower, the structure is lively. It has a wooden matrix on its entire outer facade creating a physical barrier but not visual which depicts freedom with limitations. This reflects the freedom of the soul limited in the structure. Half of the structure stops at a strategic location and the other half goes high in the sky creating an overlooking deck on the terrace where it stopped. At the topmost part is the meditation cube.

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The meditation space on the top is the symbol of purity that the nature possesses. The stepped amphitheater leading to the central pond lets a stream of divine light into the room with a serene waterfall from the top. The cemetery is divided by intermediate plazas The plaza is a combination of lawn and paved areas. It has food stalls, where people can come and relax.

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