Adke Adwait Makarand Sangeeta

LA4010

The project ‘The Past of Tomorrow’ is sited at the intersection of past and future of water and its memory in urban environments. By focusing on the restoration of stepwells as vital evidences of systems of water positivity, the project attempts to develop a linkage that reimagines social spaces and supporting livelihoods, while enhancing unseen water recharge systems. These linkages as program attempt to develop a quantitative and qualitative framework of water positivity through different forms of responses to groundwater recharge through acts of infiltration and permeability. Thus, while the project focuses on the restoration of the stepwell, the presence of water within it emerges as a symptom of a broader water-positive scheme. Additionally, the scheme reinterprets urban gamtals as systems of residential living with an integration of intermediate spaces for livelihood and recreation.

In closing, 'The Past of Tomorrow' envisions a resilient urban future where the revival of traditional water systems and spatial practices stimulates sustainable groundwater recharge, socio-cultural representation, and adaptive urban living.