concept mapping

the mechanism

living landscape

on site transformation

model

community dynamics

zooming in at the individual module

site formation

temporal transformation

a new landscape

marshland mechanisms and architecture

the process

developing the new creek community, a dynamic relation of the module and the marshland

a new edge condition, penetrating the hard edge to redefine the porous edge of the marshland

Fluid studies on the site , a strategy for determining stable region of development

Design Defined

Spatial M oRphInG

M I G R A T I N G FORMATIONS

Driving Thoughts

Addressal of the phenomena of migration, motion, disturbance of soaking in the ecological constraints is the first step to the recognition of the concern of the submerging city
 

Fitting City Locally and globally, is an emergent pattern on that Lewis Mumford aptly described as an organic development with discernible boundaries


Blurring the Boundaries
Convention is a mere validation of an existing thought process of lines that are inscribed so hard that we don’t let the boundaries, disappear.
Topology and the built are considered as two entities and exist as independent layers. The interdependence of these layers cannot be ignored but need to be addressed and optimized. Architecture has to adopt the philosophy of Interaction versus Isolation. The underlined criteria being integration of land, water, resources and infrastructure
Hence this demands for the Blurring of the Boundaries.
Blurring the boundaries of the site and the built would be beneficial for utilizing the natural edges, contextual conditions, biological bounties as catalysts and not as constraints.
 

Architecture is an adaptive and not an additive system
• Evolution of architecture from that of being an object to a module of life, a system that not merely creates a shelter or protects life but architecture that integrates the structural and behavioral intelligence of a life form.
• Architecture that grows from the landscape and is not implanted
At a Micro level the scenario is that of treating architecture and landscape as an “Evolutionary paradigm”
 

overview of the creek

a zoomed in view of the area of interest , Bandra Kurla Complex, the new International Finance and Business District embarcing the creek , built completely on reclaimed land

a walk through the evolution of the city , to understand this new created urban city fabric of a linear city from an archipelago

an alarming situation that the marshland spine of the city is also the concentrated thread of pollutants and harmful industries

Destruction of the sponge of the city - a profound shift from soaked to flooded

MUMBAI, July 2005 - evidence of the outcome of our " CREATIVE DESTRUCTION"

realisation of the current scenario and the ecological imbalance created by man

This graph is the force that drove my concern to the extinction of ecosystems and the pressure we have created, it immediately brought concern to neglected ecosystems often considered as negative ecosystems like the marshalnds

manifesto

Manifesto

Conflict is the easiest way to address a problem, offense is said to be the best defense. Sadly so man has become offensive towards the very environment that he lives in.
The population pressure and insensitive construction boom is engulfing our ecosystems bringing them to a point of not just a species but an ecosystem being endangered.
It is hence time to destroy this existing aggressive relation between architecture and ecosystems and renew the dialogue of Architecture with the natural forces, that of it being a ricochet of its environment is that which will sculpt an efficient intervention in the ecosystem one that is driven to rescue a race, the Marshlands.
This interactive integrated system that wills absorb ecologic and eco intelligence from the bios to the built and will
„Echo the harmony of the Ecosystem‟.