Redevelopment Project : Shanti Apartments, Ahmedabad

Ujjvala Krishna

AR3004

Streets littered with construction waste, debris cluttering the outskirts of our cities, tons and truckloads of material going into landfills. Architecture leaves in its wake a mound full of waste, and we as architects seem to be happily oblivious of this. This redevelopment housing project proposal looks to create a cycle of recovery, both in the process of the demolition of the existing structure as well as the future redevelopment of the newly built.
Creating this cycle of recovery and reuse though is not seen as a separate entity, but rather works in tandem with a host of other concerns within the realm of housing. The units are themselves configured to create a connect with the outside, to blur the lines between the interior and the exterior, and to break away from the fixed spaces usually found in apartments, by creating one large ambiguous space within each home.
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Axonometric View of the Project

Concerns regarding the recovery of material during demolition and creating cycles of recovery and reuse

Site plan at ground level with blowups of the lift and staircase lobbies and the stilt parking

Higher level plans of the site - Podium level plan + Higher level typical floor plan + Terrace plan

Section cutting through the residential and commercial space, parallel to the 18 m street

Views of the project proposal - View of the podium + View of the temple and the commercial area + View of the lift lobby and the stilt parking

Unit development and incorporating the material recovery and reuse into the units

Unit View and Unit Types

Material recovery for elements from original structure + User manual for reference for future redevelopment

Views of the proposal - Overall view from the South-East + view of the reused materials within individual homes