Bafna Juhi Ashok Sulekha

CR4001

The project focuses on building suitable capacities at different scales, without passing a threshold into a qualitatively different state within the fast changing environments of pols where the future is unpredictable. 
 A minimalist proposal is of restoring the Medi (structure above pol gate which traditionally belonged to the pol panchayat) to house the Civic Design Laboratory (CDL). The CDL is part of a larger systemic infrastructure to feed into a continuous system with a performance-based approach that can exchange relevant information between systems, reflect on itself & enable the various other systems to function collectively while responding rapidly through shorter feedback loops. 
 Objective : to bring residents of the pol & city staff to convene + incubate + address civic challenges by aligning the institutional tools. In order to meet the objective the project also encompasses the following: 
 - Recommendations for Conservation & Development of Kakabaliya ni pol
- General Regulations and Guidelines for the built environment 
 - A Materials Guide to Conservation Approaches to educate the administration on the need, viability and principles of conservation so that they are able to document / survey / update government records 
 - A pilot project selecting properties of different heritage values and stakeholders to demonstrate approaches to conservation and development whilst allowing economic regeneration