Patil Pranita Prakash

LA4020

Living With The Lake

Extensions of Domestic Lives at the Edge of Goverdhan Sagar Lake .The design proposal attempts to reduce social disparity through landscape as a tool. It addresses the low income resident community at the crux of the lake ecology and attempts to enhance the neighborhood engagement with the lake through incentive based programs. Enhanced outdoors with an approach through a hierarchy of streets to the lake edge is envisioned while also providing comfort for the residents to continue their domestic activities at the edge.  Through these programs ,a local sensitivity and collective effort to preserve the lake ecology can be implemented.

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Locating the site ; LANDING - The First Impressions Of the Lake

GROUNDING Documenting The Lake

FINDING The lake body being a vast playground for various activities becomes the most obvious and prominent focal point on the site. The way the frames of water are being fragmented by different elements like vegetation , walls , built components , etc affect the emotions and hence activities of the users. The study is a link between visual fragments , emotions they induce and the actionsby users . Where fragmentation is considered to be a negative connotation when it pertains to ecologies . However , in settings where urban encroachment is a primary factor, fragmentation is required .

FOUNDING - Lake Scale On having an individualist perspective for the site through a lens ,we forged a vision for the lake as a whole. Stake holders and a zoning plan devising strategies for the site This enabled a wholistic approach with mulitple perspectives , followed by a chosen perception that aligns with our visions. To demonstrate the vision , a detail design was developed for selected portion of the site .

FOUNDING - Studying the Selected Site and Developing a Vision and Programmes for the Site

Master Plan and Design Programmes

Design Development - Detail Zone 1 Overflow Canal Redevelopment

Design Development - Detail Zone 2 Street and Pocket Hierarchy

Design Development - Detail Zone 3 Ghat Edge

Farming Palette and Companion Crops for the Site