Ghusale Onkar Sharad

UI4002

This studio was aimed to develop a Comprehensive Infrastructure Plan (CIP), keeping in mind the infrastructural aspect for the same. It was altogether divided into four phases. The first phase included exercises towards understanding what infrastructure is and how it contributes to the growth of a city. This included documenting infrastructure present in the cities to which we come from. Similarly governance structure of the State to which we belong was also studied. Further Development plans prepared by Indian Cities and foreign cities were reviewed. The second phase was Macro level assessment of Ahmedabad city and AUDA area, under various lenses of infrastructure. This included studying the physical, social and economical infrastructure that existed in the area through primary surveys, stakeholder consultations, visiting nodal agencies and secondary resources. The purpose of this exercise was to infer from the information collected, Identify the gaps that exist presently and identify a suitable area of micro level where the study of Micro level comprehensive infrastructure plan can be prepared . Stage three was to conduct micro level analysis for the selected study area under the lens of various infrastructure issues that are identified through the field surveys and gap analysis followed by stage four , which was combining the sectoral proposals that were given by individual member of the group Altogether, the studio was an attempt to understand the details of infrastructural components, and developing an understanding of how on-site explorations, studio-based brainstorming and chalking out comprehensive strategies go in tandem with each other.