Shannon Maria

AR3045

Placed in the rural fringe of the river Sabarmati, the site portrays a possibility to bridge a parallel to the New city of Ahmedabad. The design focuses on lessening the gap between the two. Multiple residents from the old city have shifted to the other side of the river over the course of these past years. Why ? What is the cause of this ever widening gap between the two places ? The project facilitates the owning of a first home for the millennial generations of the Old City. Changing social and work habits are forcing the definition of mixed use to ‘evolve’. i.e. residential,commercial and leisure to be in immediate context. The resultant is a mixed set of people with different aspirations that could come together and foster an extroverted community. AND THUS ‘THE RURAL FRINGE’ IS A HOUSING COMPLEX FOR THIS INTER DEPENDEDNT GENERATION, WHO ARE SOCIALLY INCLINED AND EMBRACE THE IDEA OF COMMUNAL LIVING OR COHOUSING.