Localisations
SITE: Public toilet-Balwadi-Path lab
Observation:
There have been some incremental infrastructure changes in the settlement.Once the three programmed spaces-Balwadi,Toilet and Pathology Lab came into the settlement, the community interactions gradually started to push into the alleys of the settlement and their spill out spaces also got restricted.
Various activities now, take place in these narrow alleys like people occupying the plinths and entrances of the houses for interactions,the windows,staircase and space below it used for storage,women washing clothes and other threshold conditions.
The activities that used to happen before the programmed spaces coming in, have been diverged into the alleys due to shrinking of the space.
Design Intent :
Rethinking a way in which the programmed and unprogrammed spaces be integrated such that it could hold these community interactions which happen in the gully.
To build a form that lends itself to accommodate the activities and affordances by expansion and contraction of space.
Model iterations:
Staggering to create more porosity through punctures.The intesity of punctures varies to provide closed, semi-open and open spaces. Inverting the idea of dead walls to create more intimate spaces.
Extending the idea of scaffolding to the face or back walls such that the programmed and unprogrammed can co-exist
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