Urban life is best experienced in various open spaces of our cities. Parks and gardens play a pivotal role in shaping a healthy socio-cultural environment. This studio will study parks through multiple lenses, including design, organisation, accessibility, stakeholder engagement, behavioural patterns and preferences.
Starting with closely studying life in parks on selected sites, the studio shall assess and evaluate important values and organisational aspects contributing to ideal public outdoor space-making. Students are encouraged to explore various attributes and opportunities for open spaces - physical, cultural, ecological, and economic.
Each student will prepare tools to imagine a public park - physical, process-based or tactical; to demonstrate variable design and development frameworks. These tools shall also respond to the larger responsibilities of public spaces in acting as urban green infrastructures. Eventually, students shall demonstrate a few applications of these tools to initially selected sites, documenting the decision-making process and expected key performance indicators.
Studio Unit
The studio unfolds in three phases beginning with mapping which is analysing exiting neighbourhood small parks with set parameters.
The assessment stage enabled each project to be based on a larger challenge, thus subsequent development of strategies and outcomes.
Using abstraction as a tool to chalk out spatial programs and formulate character designs.
Reimagining was implemented with newly thought programs on sample sites such that they could be adapted across the city within similar contexts.
The reimagined parks included approaches ranging from experiential to programmatic and functional attributes.
