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The settlement studies were inclined towards studying housing patterns by understanding the physical configuration of space, with the social life of the inhabitants. The study was a mix where we looked at the site and services scheme of housing in Charkop which is located between the Manori Creek and the New Link road in Mumbai and also looked at the different historical housing typologies with their social and cultural settings in various parts of the country.
The study of Charkop was located between the coordinates of contemporary suburban studies, both housing as well as cultural studies.
Charkop's original name is 'Char Khop' which means place of 4 huts or small village with four houses. Charkop originally was a marshy land, drained by the MHADA organization to provide low and middle income housing to people. It was a project originally intended to provide society-based plots around 250 square feet along with all the basic civil amenities like drainage, water supply and electricity to every owner. This ownership was established by allotting lottery numbers. Towards the year 2000, Charkop had established itself as a truly cosmopolitan area along with its close proximity to both the railway stations of Kandivali and Borivali. The sectors were developed as and when the land was reclaimed. The entire settlement is divided into 9 sectors out of which the 8 and 9th sectors are the most recent ones developed in the 2000s.
The different colors indicate the zonal configuration of Charkop into different sectors
The initial physical configuration of Charkop afforded a communitarian living but compromised individual privacies. People thus altered the plan and developed incremental possibilities which could afford both; a communitarian living and at the same time achieve autonomous living. Between these densities of clusters, each sector has a buffer space known as a "maidan". These maidans become larger breathing spaces between the tight density of the clusters, which afford various communitarian congregations. Our focus of study included three clusters: two from sector 3 and one from sector 1.
The yellow textured patches are the 'Maidans of Charkop'. Each coloured block around the maidans indicate the 'baithi chawls'.
The house belongs to Yashasvi
The home is seen as a bricolage where different objects come together to make the home at various instances. At the same time these objects have a lot more associations i.e., they can be seen possessing different meanings apart from the one they are assigned with for e.g. The bracket apart from holding the shelves in the kitchen becomes a hook to hang the kitchen cloth and newspapers. The switch board becomes a bottle holder and the jerry cans becomes a stand for utensils. The ladder becomes a cloth dryer, the door knob and almirah handle becomes hooks for holding umbrellas and bags.
Through these studies and observations, different hook patterns are identified which make the bricolage home. Thus, a generation of a framework is created which affords these make and shift hook patterns and at the same time become a home based on the ideas and working on bricolage.
The process starts by looking at a simple cuboid of a conventional room. Next, the cuboid is split into two halves. Then tracing along the edges of the cuboid creates a 3D line and giving thickness to this line derives a 3D module whose dimensions are in multiples of 3 with the shortest length being 0.3 meters, the longest length being 1.5 meters and the intermediate lengths being 0.9 meters and 0.6 meters respectively.
Module development from a cuboid of a conventional room
Development of a skeleton with the help of the 3D module
Thus, by collaborating the modules a skeleton is created for the house wherein the planes get added later in different axes to make the space inhabitable. Different materials come together and clad themselves onto the framework to create the façade. These skins have an own expression of themselves and these expressions get reflected on the inner spaces of the house thus creating various experiences and create a bricolage façade on the outside.
PLANS WITH CONTEXT
ZOOMED IN HOUSE PLANS
HOUSE SECTIONS
FURNITURE MANUAL
Thus, one can see the bricolage happening in all the stages of making the home:
1) The mixing and matching of the module to create a spatial bricolage which affords easy addition of spaces and subtraction of existing spaces.
2) The multipurpose ness of these modules to create which afford the hook system in the house.
3) And the play of patterns and textures to create experiences on the inside and outside
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Existing Home of Yashasvi
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