Zenab Sabunwala

UR2001

Sustainable Neighbourhood

The Old City of Ahmedabad is very sustainable when it comes to mixed use activities or pleasant micro-climate to keep the neighbourhood cool in the scorching heat of Ahmedabad. However it is not the best example of conserving energy, and ends up emitting high levels of Carbon. Through this project, it is aimed to utilize the abundant heat available on site and conserve energy of buildings using Solar power.

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Identifying the problems and opportunities on site.

Site analysis that helped in forming inferences.

Strategies and Fitness Criteria to take forward the interventions.

First set of experiments conducted that failed because all necessary fitness criteria were not considered.

First set of experiments that failed because all necessary fitness criteria were not considered.

New pseudocode formed making sure necessary fitness criteria is considered.

New set of Experiments with the Fittest highlighted (1).

New set of Experiments with the Fittest highlighted (2).

New set of Experiments with the Fittest highlighted (3).

3D visualization of the proposed design