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Architectural Questions

  • What would be the form of a shared space? One that is shared amongst varying species, allowing each individual’s life to thrive while having minimal conflicts?

  • What kind of architectural intervention serve the street animals in the urban?

  • How does one allocate/distribute space amongst various species? What would the spatial requirements be?

  • Architecture of inclusion; or of segregation?

  • What is a holistic, utopian form of architecture being an amalgamation of the natural, built and modified habitats, allowing the thriving of all forms of interactions? (cognitive, behavioural and physiological)

Thesis Findings

  • Several notions of fear, friendship, aggression, food procurement, danger makes the space an olfactory excitement for the street animal. Concretisation invariably makes the metropolitan city an olfactory bore, dulling out the sensorial possibilities of landscapes rich in smells, touch, and taste.

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  • Human-animal conflicts are minimal in a situation where the street animal and humans share the same space, especially in a case where a household is shared by varying species. Rather than conflicts, fruitful interactions emerge in the urban

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  • Humans (feeders, caregivers, health institutions) become ‘enablers’ allowing ‘friendship’ as a type of an inter-species social arrangement

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  • Spaces with a stark difference in the pace of life (regularity of eating, movement speeds) amongst species builds a speciesist difference leading to conflicts and derogatory tones of acknowledging the other. Spaces which allow equivalent paces allow fruitful interactions

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  • The desire for clinical, geometric cities curbs inter-species interactions.

Ambition of Project

  • Aim: Improve living conditions of all life forms on site to allow life to thrive

  • To be sensitive towards the living conditions of more than human life (and human life)

    • Create hygienic living conditions for humans

  • Improve interactions amongst species and be sensitive towards the natural habitats in the urban

  • Make the urban more sustainable and resilient to environmental limits and vulnerabilities

Site for Intervention

  • Unhealthy/unviable living conditions for street animals

  • Unhygienic living conditions in the slums

  • Informal planning of area

  • Poor housing for workers in warehouses

Scope of Work

  • Make Coal Bundar a circular habitation, introducing circular and sustainable strategies in the warehouses and the slums

  • Articulate a well-thought and efficient waste management system

  • To make Coal Bundar a flood resilient space

  • The residential (and warehouses) forms aptly sustainable and capable of accommodating all life forms on site

  • Provision of electricity and water (on the contrary, self sufficiency through circular processes)

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