Arun Kumar

UP4001

East Gandhinagar is an uncharted territory which has the potential of becoming an institutional, commercial and recreational hub of Gandhinagar to be know as ‘New Gandhinagar’. Prime institutions like IIT, PDPU etc. Attracts a lot of students from all over the country while India’s most prestigious first greenfield smart city project also happens to fall on the eastern banks of Sabarmati. With an ambition of providing job to over 10 lakh people along with MEGA and BRTS connectivity from Ahmedabad to Gandhinagar. Both the cities are slowly moving to ultimately merge and support each other. But despite so much development potential in East Gandhinagar, GUDA has envisioned the area in its Development Plan 2024 as an complete institutional zone apart from GIFT city. Even GIFT city has not provided the housing that is expected to come for 10 lakh job seekers. This discrepancy in huge demand of housing and practically no supply of land for residential development made us think about creating a TP Scheme which will question the vision of the Development Plan and come up with more contextualized scheme which caters to the demand. Throughout the studio our aim was to question this conventional method and to reconsider the zoning and DCR’s provided in the Development Plan.