TA: Shaily BhavsarHumanising Urban Space: Social Production and Speculative Design of Neighborhood Place
Are Cities today the great places to live and enjoy the everyday life?. The critical question is still haunting us since the Industrial revolution. The everyday life activities is lacking the richness in experience, safety, comforts, meanings and associations. Ian Gehl ‘s ‘Cities for people’ (2010) and Christian Norberg Schulz ‘Genius Loci’ (1976) have defined the theory of place making as important approach to design of our built environment. Studio aims to develop a theoretical perspective on humanising problem using the place making theories. Students will use the theoretical perspective to explore greenfield site of residential area by designing the masterplan, cluster and urban space design to create human interaction spaces for everyday life in the context of vertical development under the demand of densification in city. They will use the place making theories as a base to first decode the social and cultural patterns of urban life in the project area and case studies, evolve a theoretical frame for analysis and demonstrate to explore a speculative design of the urban space and form of a vertical neighborhood.
