Agni Chowdhury

UP4001

The TP scheme development is the most important statutory tool to plan any area of the city. It is responsible for influencing, facilitating and managing urban forms and growth. The studio was framed around developing a TP Scheme for ‘Hathijan-Geratnagar’ area in a team of 15. This allowed us to deal with the issues that a typical combination of industrial and residential neighbourhood faces. It helped us to conceive strategies for the area, which were constantly informed by examples of neghbourhood areas within the city. At the heart of how we as a group framed our approach was to study the spatial form of the area and what impact does it have on the growth pattern, density, economy, Affordability and Environment in the are. The process is planned along with exploring innovative models of land development to achieve desired urban character and its built form and understanding existing mechanisms of land readjustment and evolving suitable approaches for a more equitable distribution of benefits and cost. The studio aimed to develop core competencies in making of a TP Scheme, using various tools like zoning and regulations. The development plan contains the conceptual plan, envisioned urban form, land readjustment, implementing strategies, development model and regulations. We visualized the built form based on the regulations that we have written. We learnt to create a situation of equitable distribution, of infrastructure costs and increased values.