Edible Museum
Edible Museum
Migrant Housing
The studio project deals with studying two dominant migrant communities in the Eastern part of Ahmedabad and developing a housing project for them as well as for the other economically weaker sections. The spaces, thus created, have their own characters; the occupants of this space have the opportunity to alter the space in a certain extended pattern. The habitat’s provision for incremental nature allows for adapting and reshaping based on the requirements of the residents over time. The outside spaces are equally stressed because territoriality is a basic human nature sufficed by the technical knowledge of how houses are made structurally. The project deals with understanding the continuity of physical elements and spaces on-site and their coherence in terms of the uses/activities that take place in accordance with certain land-use further determined by typologies, edges and street elements. The proposal aims at improvising continuity and coherence of the street Sunrise Park Road while trying to redefine its nomenclature as a Boulevard street. It is sufficed by a balance between the continuous spaces designated for fast and slow modes of transportation and facilitated further by designing spaces coherent with the existing and intended function of and on the street.
Site Analysis: Rakhial, Ahmedabad
(The site analysis was done by all the students of the studio)
Studying the Communities
Exploring mass housing ensembles in the eastern part of Ahmedabad, identify two dominant communities and understand their trade and socio-cultural influences and the physical manifestation of it in terms of their spaces.
Community 1: Dhurabhai ni Chali
The different uses of the street space (for instance, for drying clothes, gathering space, parking), temple spaces and its negotiations with houses
and streets,, the making, packing and selling of snacks being the major profession in the community and how, again, the street space us utilized is
prominent in the community. The one thing which usually binds the streets i.e. a chowk is something which is missing in the neighbourhood but
is extremely important for occassions has been highlighted.
[Site Analysis and Drawings prepared collectively by C. Aparnaa, Parth Patel and Siddhi Soni]
Community 2: Saraf ni Chali
Hierarchy of spaces with a temple having been established in the main chowk which connects the streets acts as the major activity hub, from religious
activites to celebrations to playground for the children to gathering space for the men to daily vegetable vending is the heart of the neighbourhood.
The streets act as the pause points for the women who, during day time usually occupy the space for coming together and working
and using it as a spillover space tells how much a chowk kind of a thing is important for women too.
[Site Analysis and Drawings prepared collectively by C. Aparnaa, and Vanshika Shah]
Use of Interior Spaces: Various Typologies
Site Plan Propositions
Design Development
Proposed Floor Plans on Site
Zoomed In Cluster Design Details
Here, the detailed house plans of each house of the cluster are suggestive and except for the wet areas (including kitchen sink area), the interior spaces are subject to change as per an individual’s wish, including the inside walls, so as to not be restricting which most the conventional mass housings tend to do. The outside spaces were to be equally stressed upon because territoriality is a basic human nature while also having the technical knowledge of how houses are made structurally.
[This work was produced as part of the studio unit 'From Utopias to Heterotopias Migrant Housing: Values of Time, Density, Culture, and Energy' at CEPT University, Monsoon Semester 2018]