Hrushikesh Bijal Shah

AR3021

A Larger Family: A Home outside Home

The highrise Project is set in the GIFT city between Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar. The project identifies concerns of lack of neighbourhood and diverse lifestyles in main stream housing projects. People often forget their deep interests as they grow up, and, there is no reminder to that and the life passes by. Can housing be seen as a organism where it learns, celebrates and gets old with dignity?  The program tries to Integrate informal institutions with housing to create a neighbourhood enriching the whole lifestyle of the residents. 


Report Content

Process and Imagination

Premise

Siting and Massing

Programmatic Axonometric

Creating a Neighbourhood

Site Plan and Looking towards the central podium from institutional plinths

Section and Public Node

Block plans

Central Core and a Drama class going on within the central core

Terraces Stepping down and the relationship with the river