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UG - BUD - Studio - 7 | Spring 2022 | D-I-Collective Vista : Co-design, Adapt and Assemble
  • Student Samriddhi R Dugar
  • Code UG191219
  • Faculty Planning
  • Tutor/s Mansi Shah
  • TA Shubhangi Saxena

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The project ‘DIY Vista’ envisages Central Vista in Gandhinagar as a playful, socially engaging, and productive space that supports community interaction and brings together different ecosystem services. With this objective, the currently fenced and predominantly lawned underutilized area was analyzed in terms of usages. Further analysis was derived from studying the existing active zones and activities, those which have been developed and maintained by people. Based on the synthesis of data gathered, the design strategies for central vista were devised that makes it a space that harbors different activities as well act as a catalyst space for uniting the community. The design includes: 6 zones- Relax, Grow, Play, Experience, Community Interaction and Ecological. All the zones are connected by a network of trails traversing through various landscapes punctuated at certain intervals by pause points (gathering spaces). Within the design, flexible and transient space is a key strategy able to adapt and meet the changing needs of the users. This is achieved through flexible furniture design, planting palette and adaptable zones. Overall, the design will provide a seasonally and programmatically dynamic space, bringing a truly people-centric and productive plaza in the center of the city.

The Strategy Proposes a productive unit in each sector where multiple set of activities, some proposed in the catalogue can be practiced. The location for such spaces will be centrally located and would be categorized under the reserved land. The idea behind is to amplify the scale of such DIY productive activities that take place at a neighborhood level to sector level.
Proposed Central Vista Plan
Area Detail - Grow and Community Interaction Zone
Architectural Inserts
Sections Through Various Zones
The design is divided into 6 zones (Relax, Grow, Play, Interact and Experience) taking clues from the various DIY activities currently developed and maintained by people at a neighborhood scale. These zones are connected by a network of trails traveling through varied landscapes punctured by pause points. These spaces will also support DIC stations where people can rent furniture's and create changing possibilities of gathering spaces. Overall this manual guides the user to create static and dynamic conditions whereby spaces change, evolve, activate seasonally and different times of the day.
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Intervening of Human Activities and Landscape at D-I-Collective Vista
View providing a seasonally and programmatically dynamic space, bringing a truly people-centric and productive plaza in the center of the city.