The project ‘Eco-Adhocism’ attempts to involve the unexperienced landscape into the city through redefining the idea of public infrastructures in Gandhinagar. The project aims to develop forms of bio-architecture that caters to social, functional and ecological characteristics appropriated to distinct land conditions. It redefines the unregulated expanse of river side through exploring the possibilities on existing site and enhancing them through the means of bio-architecture or follies spread across the site. Thinking of infrastructures that adapt not only to the fragile evolving nature of landscape, but also allows itself to work within the boundaries of ecology. Also being a public space, these forms become tools or method of creating diverse spatial journeys or experiences across the river site.
The site can then act as a precedent to its context for the inferences of such social, functional and ecological characteristics, a guide for city to understand the significance of these as a part of evolution. In order to enhance or bring coherence in development of an urban agglomeration, city needs to understand its relation between the urbanscape and its response to scales of ecology.
Interpretations about the site and its relation to the city. Gandhinagar currently has an urban setting and a fragile landscape that sits next to the river. As the city grew, the river has remained as a relatively unexplored ground.These snippets were used as a method to understand different land conditions and patches on site. Exploring the river edge raises two questions -
How can we further enhance these distinctive experiential patches that has a lot of richness and biodiversity to offer?
How can we unlock this expanse of landscape to be in coherence with city where one can experience different grains of forests, agricultural land, foraging gardens, and marshlands?
Starting from the J road to ending at river, the plans explore the transitions in grains of forests, agricultural land, marshlands etcA grid of 12m x 12m is imagined and all follies are designed with a similar armature so that they visually connect to each other. Kit of parts breaks down forms into smaller pieces that can be attached or removed as per the specific scenariosA system of bio-architecture is imagined that work on the basis of co-existence between built forms and landscape patches. These are simple follies spread across sites - designed in response to the micro conditions, and can allow different degree of human penetration and support lives of other urban fauna. There are three primary categories of follies - Ecological, social and functional.As mentioned that insurgence is the key concept, this a demonstration of phases through which the bio-architecture would evolve and be taken over by landscape for a more seamless coexistenceCollective appearance-An overview of how that transition might look like, imagining juxtaposition of bioarchitecture on land conditions.As seen on the river side, forms were located on the basis of patches and categories they fall under. Similarly at the city scale, land uses can become a factor to contextualise this forms of bio-architecture.The kit of part can then be taken back to the city where the catalogue of ecological, social, functional forms have been further extended to cater the scale of it.
