Shah Sanika Mansukhlal

HD4010

The intervention goes beyond the building and reconstruction of the homes on a demolished site. It seeks to dissolve the rigid boundaries between built and open, public and private, and between people of varying income groups. At its core, the intervention introduces a tool-house typology—a mixed-use strategy that enables both living and working, creating a porous, inclusive, and economically active street fabric. The spatial use and economic productivity are not mutually exclusive and play a role in the organic and incremental growth of the street. The act is one of stitching of streets into a habitable space with the idea of a tool-house that exemplifies the resilience of home grown neighborhood. The project is seen beyond sustainable materials and ecology, rather human ecology, where parts of streets, nodes, land topography, communal spaces, materials, landscape, human movement and the way of life are woven together. Understanding the increasing demand of homes, the idea of densification is implemented by providing a larger unit size which in a way is repurposing the original unit design and retaining the architectural expression.