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Ritwik Behuria

AR3021

'The Meander' - High Density Housing in 2040

The project is a high density housing complex in GIFT City, outside Ahmedabad. A few inevitable shifts that would affect the nature of housing by 2040 were taken into account, along with the challenge of achieving an FSI of 5.4. The project attempts to reminisce the language of streets and plazas of Ahmedabad, as GIFT Complex is a neighborhood without a past. The major shifts considered were the deteriorating social lifestyle, need for a microclimate, change in family patterns, need for flexibility and co-working; all of which were attempted to be resolved in the project at different scales.  


Report Content

Deriving user groups from inevitable shifts

Site selection and cluster conceptualization

Initial visualization derived from the streets of Ahmedabad

Site plan alongside evolution of massing

Retail plan of lower levels alongside overall renders

Sections illustrating some of the typical elements in the project

Bifurcation of blocks, derived through nature of balconies and transition spaces

Students Block (above) and Expats/Tourists Block (below)

Bachelors Block (above) and Nuclear Families Block (below)

Final Renders