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RiverBANK : Bank of food, land and biodiversity
The project RiverBANK is an integrated system of productive agro-based network that lend spaces to community for growing food (at the river-side site and in the city). The main design is at the river edge where the sloppy terrain is re-structured into terraced spaces for the community to grow food. ...
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Urban | Commercial | Religious | Cultural
Re-Imagining Girivalam - Altering Pilgrimage experienceTiruvannamalai is one of the most famous pilgrimage sites in India situated in a very serene, secluded location amidst nature. The Pilgrimage journey involves a circumambulatory path around the sacred hill, temple, ashrams, and tanks combined with a series of spiritual experiences and rituals which helps the user to experience ...
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Food Cover
Erratic rainfall patterns in Gujarat, led to lower vegetable acreage in 2019. Due to water scarcity in the state, incomplete canal infrastructure and at times lack of access to other sources, farmers in the region are able to cultivate vegetables only in areas where groundwater is available. Gujarat is also ...
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Urban | Residential | Masterplan | Cultural
Sva - A vision of Self sustenanceAccording to UN World Urbanization prospects, in the past 40 years, the global population has grown by 80%. In nearly 50 years the urban population will reach about 70% of the global (world population prospects, 2006). This influx from rural to urban areas and massive urbanization creates numerous environmental and ...
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Urban | Civic | Educational | Cultural
AtlantisAtlantis is rather like a vast Academy stretched over 5 hectares. It will host exhibitions, meetings, study courses, performances amidst all the activities connected with the life of an artist’ colony, a gathering of scientists, thinkers, patrons,and student living together for a while, working, searching,debating and taking part in the ...
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Urban | Civic | Masterplan | Infrastructure
Border Dynamics: Park as ParliamentSited on the border between Norway and Russia, this project reconsiders the autonomy of the town of Kirkenes. The region has a complex history of territorial dispute and mineral extraction, attracting investors from the globe to invest, extract and occupy. As a result, this area has become a semi-peripheral place ...
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NEURALISMS SHENZHEN: Research Report
Twenty-first-century cities like Shenzhen have grown into diverse, complex, and interconnected organisms. This interwoven structure brings an expanding range of constraints and demands for new types of civic engagement, new ways of integrating nature with the city, and for more sustainable use of resources. Instead of blunt “terrain vague” redevelopment ...
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Urban | Residential | Civic | Masterplan
The Kapotnya effect. ResettlementNATURAL AUTONOMY. The residential area of Kapotnya is isolated from the city (Moscow) by the river, the oil factory, and MKAD (Moscow Ring Road). Kapotnya’s territory is “invisible” to public transport, the political and economical influence of the city center. Thus, Kapotnya naturally becomes a kind of autonomous city inside the ...
