Harsh Sanjay Shah

UR3002

Experience Humane

Unlike conventionally designed neighborhoods, this project is an attempt to create an ideal place where human experience acts as the focus while building spaces in harmony with the social & cultural lifestyle through urban forms & design. Hence, the true spirit of a place establishes when there is a constant level of communication between the space and its people. The project is inspired by two placemaking theories of Urban Design i.e. Cities for people by Jan Gehl and Phenomenology of space by Christian Norberg Schulz. Bansidhar Neighborhood is a residential area in the heart of the city of Ahmedabad. The design objective frames itself by purely using the outcomes derived from the site conditions and its analysis.


Report Content

Bansidhar Neighborhood is a residential area in the heart of the city of Ahmedabad. It is located in Paldi area, consisting of pre-dominantly jain community. The area is centered by a neighborhood park and the built form surrounds it. The site has various attractors and activities surrounding the park and all the residents come down to the park for there daily chores. The neighborhood is sparsely dense with a house type of bungalow typology on its immediate periphery and row houses and apartment

There are primarily two secondary streets running parallel through the center of the urban block connecting the major landmarks on site, the school and the skating ring to the BRTS transit stop. It is crossing the park while connecting the nodes, facilitating the activities at the park in a certain way of which, this analysis shows the detail characteristics of the North Entry side street. It is a detail physicality mapping of the site condition with sensory mapping overlaid on it, to understand

Social and Cultural patterns are formed through certain regularity in activity generation in a similar pattern frequently by the same user group but different users. Hence, the same was tried to be identified on site and to look it up into detail of how those activities are being performed and at what times and intervals of the day. Hence, the below is the list of the broad major activities observed and through personal interview data collected on site, the details of activities which help in ma

Three major questions were answered to structure the basis of the design concept. They are as follows. What? : Efficiency in everyday life activities concerning its type, speed, and built form designing through human psychology for a spatial and an experiential placemaking. Why? : To make spaces more experiential and personalized by identifying the activities, which are to be foresighted in them, for enhanced user experience. How? : By structuring places in the neighborhood based on cer

The master plan majorly focuses on the activity patterns revolving around the central space and largely affecting the neighborhood. The arterial streets are as per the T.P scheme which remain unchanged and the grid remains constant. The aim of master plan design is to use the grid pattern to it’s benefit and structure the movement in such that every space is identifiable even in a grid layout. The main concept while defining the master plan layout is consciously been to carve out spaces for free

The central space consists of variety of functions and spaces within it for enhancing user experience through hierarchy and varied types of spaces. Levels in the space play a major role in connectivity as well as generating experiences to different user groups at different spots which are focused at creating personalized experience. The space is iconic in nature which becomes the center and a landmark for its residents. The temple and the upashray, being the most used amenity on site are being s

Project Visualization

Sectional View - 1

Sectional View - 2

Before designing the urban edge, a few guidelines were thought of, from which these forms of built edge evolved. There are two options of forms which have been derived through those set guidlines and many more can be derived. These are two different drastic options which have been tried for studying and exploring how can the process be inclusive of all the set guidelines.