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SCHOOL OF PLANNING AND ARCHITECTURE
"The city does not tell its past but contains it like the lines of a
hand written in every segment marked with scratches, indentations,
scrolls." Italo calvino "The invisible city"The
city is an amalgamation of the physical {infrastructure + built fabric}
and the non physical/ invisible realm {social interactions + art +
culture + history}. The balanced intermingling of these two realms
enables cities to formulate for themselves into dynamic and interactive
environments. Globally developing cities like Delhi often struggle with
achieving this balance. The critical factor is not to eradicate the
invisible realm for the sake of development of infrastructure.
Unfortunately we are seeing this happen in Delhi today. We are no
longer able to see the sky while on the roads due to infrastructure. Is
there a smarter and better way to implement planning strategies? Green
open spaces are being diminished or lost due to large scale development
by developers who lack guidance on pertinent issues of green space and
the natural environment. All of these issues are demanding of us to
take decisions. But in order for us to make appropriate decisions we
have to ask the appropriate questions. What is Urban Design? Is urban
design primarily about establishing guidelines or is it about place
making? What is the role of nature within the cities of India? Is urban
design limited to physicality or can it be a gesture highlighted by the
programming of space? We approach the SPA design competition with
these issues in the back of our mind to aid us in the process of
understanding urbanism.Over time we have lost the respect
for the open green parks within our cities. They now grow un-attended,
un-activated and gated behind walls making them inaccessible and dead
spaces within the city. Ironically they seem to be their own graveyards
within the built fabric. Gating our natural environment will not
protect it but suffocate it. We have to unleash nature in to our cities
and make it a viable, vibrant and essential aspect of our everyday
lives. What was once the graceful Delhi ridge is now a fragmented
patchwork of green overtaken by the concrete jungle. The biodiversity
park in itself is struggling to survive by being contained and cut off
from the larger organism of the ridge itself.The history of
Indian built environment stands as a testament for the world on the use
of sustainable techniques. Indian architecture and fabric of Indian
cities have always been mindful of climate and terrain. This has proved
to work in our favor as these led to creating fascinating, sculptural
and viable building solutions in the form of the Stepwells of Adalaj in
Ahmedabad or the Kailash Temple, Aurangabad The School of
planning and architecture competition deals with many issues. The site
ever more so challenging also offers immense opportunities. The
adjacency to a high end commercial zone, a bio diversity park and the
JNU campus adds to the challenges of creating a wholesome environment. Proposal-Our
proposal is involved with integrating the site through various urban
conditions physically and non physically. In our point of view the site
is part of the bio diversity park which has been disjointed by the
strange planning route of the service road. We believe that the SPA
site is part of a larger campus which comprises of Teri University,
International Center for Alternative Dispute Resolution (ICADR), Instt.
for Studies in Industrial Dev. (ISID), National Book Trust and the Bio
Diversity Park. The question - How do we achieve the creation
of a whole some campus in the midst of a chaotic fragmented urban
network and built environment? Before we move forward it
is crucial for us to understand the private and public realms. This
will help us identify the hierarchy of the different kinds of spaces
within the public and private realms.The initial step is to swap the existing green space (between the two roads)
hand written in every segment marked with scratches, indentations,
scrolls." Italo calvino "The invisible city"The
city is an amalgamation of the physical {infrastructure + built fabric}
and the non physical/ invisible realm {social interactions + art +
culture + history}. The balanced intermingling of these two realms
enables cities to formulate for themselves into dynamic and interactive
environments. Globally developing cities like Delhi often struggle with
achieving this balance. The critical factor is not to eradicate the
invisible realm for the sake of development of infrastructure.
Unfortunately we are seeing this happen in Delhi today. We are no
longer able to see the sky while on the roads due to infrastructure. Is
there a smarter and better way to implement planning strategies? Green
open spaces are being diminished or lost due to large scale development
by developers who lack guidance on pertinent issues of green space and
the natural environment. All of these issues are demanding of us to
take decisions. But in order for us to make appropriate decisions we
have to ask the appropriate questions. What is Urban Design? Is urban
design primarily about establishing guidelines or is it about place
making? What is the role of nature within the cities of India? Is urban
design limited to physicality or can it be a gesture highlighted by the
programming of space? We approach the SPA design competition with
these issues in the back of our mind to aid us in the process of
understanding urbanism.Over time we have lost the respect
for the open green parks within our cities. They now grow un-attended,
un-activated and gated behind walls making them inaccessible and dead
spaces within the city. Ironically they seem to be their own graveyards
within the built fabric. Gating our natural environment will not
protect it but suffocate it. We have to unleash nature in to our cities
and make it a viable, vibrant and essential aspect of our everyday
lives. What was once the graceful Delhi ridge is now a fragmented
patchwork of green overtaken by the concrete jungle. The biodiversity
park in itself is struggling to survive by being contained and cut off
from the larger organism of the ridge itself.The history of
Indian built environment stands as a testament for the world on the use
of sustainable techniques. Indian architecture and fabric of Indian
cities have always been mindful of climate and terrain. This has proved
to work in our favor as these led to creating fascinating, sculptural
and viable building solutions in the form of the Stepwells of Adalaj in
Ahmedabad or the Kailash Temple, Aurangabad The School of
planning and architecture competition deals with many issues. The site
ever more so challenging also offers immense opportunities. The
adjacency to a high end commercial zone, a bio diversity park and the
JNU campus adds to the challenges of creating a wholesome environment. Proposal-Our
proposal is involved with integrating the site through various urban
conditions physically and non physically. In our point of view the site
is part of the bio diversity park which has been disjointed by the
strange planning route of the service road. We believe that the SPA
site is part of a larger campus which comprises of Teri University,
International Center for Alternative Dispute Resolution (ICADR), Instt.
for Studies in Industrial Dev. (ISID), National Book Trust and the Bio
Diversity Park. The question - How do we achieve the creation
of a whole some campus in the midst of a chaotic fragmented urban
network and built environment? Before we move forward it
is crucial for us to understand the private and public realms. This
will help us identify the hierarchy of the different kinds of spaces
within the public and private realms.The initial step is to swap the existing green space (between the two roads)
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