The
fabric of the Indian city has undergone many a metamorphosis over time. The
nations enslavement through large periods of history have not only left India with a
plethora of heritage and tradition but also a fragmented and ambiguous fabric.
This ambiguity in itself adds to the many flavours of the Indian city. Our goal
during the competition was to find an appropriate assembly of nuances which
this very aspect and re-interpret it for Modern India. For Example “Bio
Streets” are a very alien term within the Indian context. However the term
“Gali” instantly transports a citizen to his home in the village or the city.
We were challenged by the notion of how the gali would/could translate to a bio
street and vice versa. Our proposal engages site, context and people through
subtle gestures of sight, travel, intrigue and responsibility. We were very intrigued with Maharaja Savai Jai
Singh‘s Masterplan for Jaipur being based on the cosmos. This led us to
question what is the modern cosmos? What is the modern global entity that
touches the lives of every person today? It is with this understanding that we
discovered the circuit system for the motherboard of the computer i.e. the
basic core of the IT industry. Our instant energies were poured into the
translation of built form based on this ideology. However we did not wish to
create an environment without curating the experiences of an Indian city
including their “good” chaos. Our strategy involves dividing the Z-Axis into
different planes – “Sub-Urban”, Culture, Work and Icon. It is part of our
proposal that Spiretec take initiative and co-ordinate with other members of
the tech zone to pursue for a PRT system. Indian infrastructure is usually
positioned within dense urban zones leaving our sight to be dulled by urban
chaos and decay. However we would like to extrapolate on the celebration of
life by traversing through the scenery of the forest and Yamuna as one travels
back and forth from work. Our proposal
also carves into the ground plane creating a sub culture of the knowledge and
research institute. We envision this as a form of nurturing knowledge in the
hearth of the campus.
Our
built form also is responsible for water harvesting and propogate Geo Thermal
modes of cooling and heating throughout the entire project. The skin of the
towers are fitted with solar panels so as to generate power for the campus. The
circuit lines that run as patterns on the building structure and the plazas are
smaller solar panels responsible for the lighting of the entire campus during
the night. We also envision the offices to be motion censored in order to turn
off any lights that may be unnecessary.
The roofs of the project are green urban farms that in time would
translate into an urban forest of their own. The west portion of the site
contains a viewing point for the people of the city, workers as well as
students to enjoy the sunset against the banks of the Yamuna.