VOLUME ZERO - Micro Housing 2019 competition entry
Float in - Float out
Project done with Raghav Kohli
The challenge was to rethink and re imagine the idea of urban dwellings and come up with inventive solutions to the persistent issues of space crunch and growing population in our cities.
Site Selection - Ahmedabad Riverfront
The design encourages and takes into account the housing needs of the inhabitants-people displaced by the riverfront project-while also taking in account the recreational needs of the city. By providing them space onto the river itself, it is ensured that they have their cultural connections when they previously inhabited the space. They would have central location in the city thereby maintaining their connectivity to the older and newer parts of the city, on which they depend for their daily needs. The design tries to provide connectivity, sustainability, sensibility and a better quality of life to them and the city.
1. common thoroughfare 2. inter-community clusters 3. staircase and vertical circulation 4. hierarchy of spaces
stacking diagram of the proposed housing.
4 types of unit variation and details.
section depicting the floating clusters and the public realm on the sabarmati river.
Axonometric view.
competition sheet. 841 X 594 mm.
