Atal Chadha

4130-D

Homeless 20-25 families reside in the Bhadra plaza. They use benches to sleep, sit, cook interact, in the shade of trees. Many of these homeless are children and are into drugs, mainly into sniffing industrial glue, and spend most of their time in the plaza itself. The cartography looked at one homeless family of four people, who reside in the plaza. Detailed out where they live, spaces they utilize, activities they perform and how they engage with the surroundings. The cartograph showcase a day of their routine life in the plaza. The project wants to dignify and give proper spaces to the many homeless that live there. The idea of Pop-Up Shelter is to create facilities such as sleeping spaces, sitting spaces, spaces of work and gardens so that the many homeless can live in dignity. Pop-Ups Shelter is a modular design, each module supports one facility and can be combined to create a multi- functional space. And these multi-functional spaces will be used by the homeless people to perform their daily routine activities. This modular design approach is such that it creates things out of independent parts with standard interfaces, which allow design to be customized, upgraded, repaired and for the parts to be reused. The Pop-Ups Shelters is an approach that subdivides a system into smaller parts that can be independently created and then could be combined to generate a new system. A system that will allow the homeless to create their dignified spaces and will give Bhadra plaza its actual functioning as a public plaza.