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Entry: Wednesday, October 1, 2014
Title: BALKRISHAN DOSHI The Real, The Virtual & The Imaginary
Submitted by:
NGMA
Country:
India
Category:
Inspiration
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Entry: Tuesday, September 30, 2014
Title: Rehabilitation in Site: An alternative and inclusive response to the issue of relocating the urban poor. Dhanas Rehabilitation Colony - Chandigarh, India.
Submitted by:
Juan Camilo Arboleda, Nadia El Hakim, Dominik Saitl
Country:
India
Category:
Housing
"Rehabilitation in Site" is part of the "Charging Chandigarh! Studio" which is a collaboration between the Chair of Dwellings and the Chair of Methods & Analysis at TU Delft, Faculty of Architecture.
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Entry: Wednesday, July 9, 2014
Title: Stage 0: the urban frame
Submitted by:
Matteo Biella, Piyush Verma, Sophie Stoebe, Viola Liedervald
Country:
India
Category:
Housing
The first impression when you to go to India is that everything is more messy, more crowded, more polluted, faster. This is because your plane is probably landing in New Delhi or Mumbai. Fortunately India doesn't show always this face, we realized this once arrived in Ahmedabad for the Habitat design studio 2014. Although it's house to more than 6 million people, Ahmedabad has another feeling, another flow, even more in its suburbs such as Gota, our project site for affordable housing.
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Entry: Friday, June 6, 2014
Title: HABITAT. Inhabited.
Submitted by:
Laura Katharina Straehle, Ellen Rouwendal, Rohit Raj, Marlen Beckedahl
Country:
India
Category:
Housing
To inhabit is to make a place yours. As part of the International Habitat Design Studio led by Prof. Balkrishna Doshi at Vastu Shilpa Foundation (India), HABITAT. Inhabited has been developed within a group of international students. The workshop served as a creative pool of ideas and inspiring discussions about social housing strategies.
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Entry: Monday, June 2, 2014
Title: Battleground Gota (TU Delft - Global Housing Studio / Vastu-Shilpa Foundation, Ahmedabad )
Submitted by:
Team Gunday - Hemant Pawar, Francesca Agresti, Zhen Zhang, Hugo Corbett, Thomas Ponds
Country:
India
Category:
Housing
Team Gunday seeks to explore the changing role of the architect in Ahmedabad as the city expands, rejecting nostalgia for the traditional Indian village, embracing the contradictions of contemporary Indian culture and acknowledging a new urban paradigm characterised by strange adjacencies, rapid expansion, form following finance, a paradigm which is unreflecting, contested, flexible and irrational. On the edge of Ahmedabad, one of Asia’s fastest growing cities in one of India’s wealthiest states, Modi and friends welcome large housing developers at the expense of local democratic processes, informal settlements, ecologies and ‘Architecture’ (in the city of Kahn, Corbusier, Correa and Doshi).
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