Team: Emily Schiedemeyer, Vira Willaims, Anna Agnew
PROGRAM:
This collaborative studio focuses on settlement patterns in complex urban environments to introduce students to relationships between place, urbanism, and design. The site, Ramapir No Tekro, in Ahmedabad, India is in a metropolitan areas with high population levels and diverse socio-economic conditions. In contrast to projects that assume access to capital and property, this studio focuses on the occupation of unused or undesirable territories by marginalized peoples.
Students will be addressing the difficult lives of people who have been displaced and had to resort to migrating to urban centers looking for work and aim to speculate how new communities might be located and articulated using a rule-based approach based on local conventions. This will require forward-thinking while working backward, along with the use of digital tools, students are to propose possible solutions for this low-income settlement.
REQUIREMENTS:
Use of Shape Grammars, Pattern Language, and Grasshopper
Adequate housing for 15,000 individuals (plus 5,000 for growth)
Incorporation of community spaces based on research findings
Housing solutions with the ability to be unique for different family needs
Accessible necessary essential services
*Must address flood plain on site
