Radhika Maitra

UR3005

Coexist: Embracing the Wilderness

Spanning across a stretch of 1.2 km by 0.8 km by the Sabarmati river, the proposed design aims to integrate humans with the local ecology and wilderness around. A framework was developed to ideate and visualise these aims. The main focus was to create a coexistence between humans and nature. 

The site was divided into upland, midland and riparian zones using a trail network to define human accessibility. The upland pollinator zone is completely accessible to humans and has the main social architectural inserts. On the other hand, the midland zone has limited human access due to high presence of diverse species, and has architectural inserts targeted towards these species. 

Light architectural inserts are utilised for these specified target groups, and the material used is bamboo and timber. Trails are 3 metres wide in the upland zone and 1.5 m wide in the midland and riparian zone. They end in decks on the Sabarmati, and become a way to reflect on the river & its ecology. Click here for the link to the extended portfolio.

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Understanding the Wilderness: Perceiving, Observing and Analysing the grains seen and biological diversity spotted

Selecting: Based on mapping the fauna spotted along the Sabarmati River, the site - Wilderness along the Central Vista opposite to Punit Van - was selected

Ideating: Creating a vision plan for Gandhinagar City, incorporating the diversity of flora and fauna into the cityscape

Conceptualising: Developing a framework and making a concept plan for the selected site

Proposing: Site Plan and Zoomed in Plans according to the activators for target groups, social spaces and planting palette

Visualising the Playground: Focussing on Humans and their interaction with the wilderness

Visualising an Observation Zone: Humans and Biodiversity observing each other

Visualising a Bird Habitat along the Ravines: Focussing on Non Humans and their interaction with the wilderness

Perspectives: Looking at change in seasons and different points of view

Linking: Smaller details that tie the project together