This portfolio is a compilation of the work done as part of the Development Plan Studio (Spring semester 2019).
The primary objective of the DP studio was to develop core competencies necessary to formulate a development plan. It was a crash-course towards understanding the processes involved. The semester was divided into four iterations, each lasting four weeks and focussing on a single theme - analysing the existing situation, conceptual proposals, zoning, and preparing a detailed development plan with cost estimates. Time was a major constraint in the process.
A prelude to these exercises was a one-week long exercise to align the students’ minds to formulate proposals; the previous semester’s analyses were used as its base.
Surat Development Plan 2041:
A liberal approach was adopted to formulate the development plan whereby FSI cap was eliminated, allowing the developers to build as high as they want. The final proposals were an outcome of an iterative process of macro-level and micro-level analysis.