Namrata Sandilya

LA4010

Tri-scoop

The project selectively scoops out three different parts of canal bed and edge to transform neglected water infrastructure into a place for celebration. Along with environmental restoration, the project also aims to create awareness, provide natural and cultural experience, along with engaging the communities with social and economic activities. The projects use the spaces around pumping station to give an alternative year-round use that transforms the canal, that once was a backyard for garbage dumping into a frontward for recreational and education.

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Location and overview of the chosen stretch. Investigating the context, existing natural layers and current issues of the canal.

Developing Concept and design guidelines to solve the issues at site. Programmatic layout of the site, based upon the design framework and the strategies.

5 step self-sustaining low-cost method proposed for water filtration

Calculation of the volume of water, the site will manage.

Zoomed in Strategy plan 1 for showing seasonality and activities around pumping station.

Zoomed in Strategy plan 2 for showing seasonality and activities around pumping station.

Zoomed in Strategy plan 3 for showing seasonality and activities around pumping station.

Detailed masterplan showing programs and stratagy planting.

Testing seasonality through flux and evaluating resilience of the site to show the change in vegetation as well as experience and engagement of people in different seasons and extremes.

Conclusion – Naturalising canal to increase ground water recharge and providing an alternate purpose for community engagement and awareness in the space around a pumping station to prevent it from becoming a seasonal or future water infrastructure relic.