Small exercises to trigger the sensitivity and understandings:
Concern 4: “Sustainable and Flexible”
Is our system “adaptable” to changes?
Description:
Many times we come across redundant and unused things. Some times we keep collecting things for our future needs (very much uncertain), thus we have 3rd/4th bed room and a huge SUV. Thus we end up making unwanted stock around us all the times. Right from the number of pens in your bag to provision of car parking in your home, every thing you wish to have an “extra”/ “spare”. I would like to connect it to some urban issue; we end up making extra concrete roads in an highway on the name of future needs. Every thing here are interconnected, our extra pen requires extra bag space, which demands for an extra space car (SUV), thus we need an extra space on the highway.
So, here comes an exercise to make a system which is more flexible and cuts off on this “Extra”.
Design Exercise:
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Concern 5: “Network and Topography”
Topography absorbs tremendous energy, if network of the place doesn’t respond in an efficient manner.
Description:
Here Network refers to many systems : Sewerage, Road, Rain water … Pedestrian movement etc.,Traditional streets are well known for their efficient natural rain water drainage system. This is because of their sensitivity towards the topography. As we expertized in constructing culverts and underground drainage systems, topography is not a concern anymore. Added to this situation, motor vehicles have built a capacity to pull against or along the slopes. Knowingly or unknowingly we spend lots of energy in handling these services, ignoring the main crux of the issue, response towards topography. This is an exercise, where an urban designer can optimize on overall energy consumption in a system.Design Exercise:Considering an Hypothesis: “Availability of Energy is dropped to a negligible percentage of existing”.
Is our system “adaptable” to changes?
Description:
Many times we come across redundant and unused things. Some times we keep collecting things for our future needs (very much uncertain), thus we have 3rd/4th bed room and a huge SUV. Thus we end up making unwanted stock around us all the times. Right from the number of pens in your bag to provision of car parking in your home, every thing you wish to have an “extra”/ “spare”. I would like to connect it to some urban issue; we end up making extra concrete roads in an highway on the name of future needs. Every thing here are interconnected, our extra pen requires extra bag space, which demands for an extra space car (SUV), thus we need an extra space on the highway.
So, here comes an exercise to make a system which is more flexible and cuts off on this “Extra”.
Design Exercise:
- Imagine a cluster of residences, where a building can transform its shape with time, and can accommodate things according to the requirements.
- Imagine a road section, which can change according to the requirements, and can accommodate multiple activities simultaneously or periodically.
- This exercise shall be conducted at multiple levels; right from furniture design to urban design.
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Concern 5: “Network and Topography”
Topography absorbs tremendous energy, if network of the place doesn’t respond in an efficient manner.
Description:
Here Network refers to many systems : Sewerage, Road, Rain water … Pedestrian movement etc.,Traditional streets are well known for their efficient natural rain water drainage system. This is because of their sensitivity towards the topography. As we expertized in constructing culverts and underground drainage systems, topography is not a concern anymore. Added to this situation, motor vehicles have built a capacity to pull against or along the slopes. Knowingly or unknowingly we spend lots of energy in handling these services, ignoring the main crux of the issue, response towards topography. This is an exercise, where an urban designer can optimize on overall energy consumption in a system.Design Exercise:Considering an Hypothesis: “Availability of Energy is dropped to a negligible percentage of existing”.
- “No motor cars in the future”; what would be the design of street networks?
- Necessity to optimize on the pumping mechanisms of Drainage/sewerage systems.
- Incorporating pedestrian and cycle modes of transportations.
- There would emerge demand for new “Morphology and Typology explorations…”
- Probably there would be only two kinds of street :
- Along the slope
- Cycle movement, because it easy to drive along the slope
- Against the slope
- Water channel and pedestrian network, with little efforts and using natural gravity – water can be drained.
- Along the slope