Disperse And Escape
SITE
Toilet, Lab and Balwaadi
Detail From The Site
The settlement has had several incremental infrastructural upgrades over the time which has resulted in the neighborhood being very dense. The whole cluster is a thick mass of private framework where the idea of public space was always forsaken. Due to the requirement of open spaces, the houses are incrementing vertically and enclosed with temporary materials. The spatiality of allies, corner, house fronts and verandah are the gendered volumes providing habitable gathering spaces where the distance, privacy and visual connectivity becomes the detail of it. The type of terrace and courtyard are the localized form where the instances and kind of use is flexible in different cases.
Design Detail
As the observation focus on how the clusters inhabit the crevices, stairs, yards and street on the site and the details of how they are scattered throughout the site, the settlement having a heavy mass of residential buildings where the community spaces or the idea of public is almost non-existent, the gathering and resting activities are seeping into the yards or to the street. These practices are a form of escape from the crowded volumes through the porosity of exposed spaces. They are scattered throughout the site, gendered and segregated as per the details of limit, restriction and connectivity. The design is conceptualized with the idea of Dispersed and open spaces where the spatial arrangement will operate as relief points creating exposed and intimate spaces. Expansion to the affordance of the terrace and the architecture of verticality, different levels and plinths, visual connectivity are the operative details for the design.
Site Diagram
Creating spaces emerging with the courtyard, plinth and levels, formation of allies and corners
Free ground space, open - semi open - closed spaces, threshlold spaces
Schematic Design Set
DESIGN DRAWINGS
