The INterlace – Interweaving Tangible and Intangible | Urban Housing as a Product of Types, Density & Systems

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The INterlace – Interweaving Tangible and Intangible | Urban Housing as a Product of Types, Density & Systems

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  • Project Name: The INterlace - Interweaving Tangible and Intangible
  • Student Name: Prajit Gupte
  • Academic Studio: Urban Housing as a Product of Types, Density & Systems-1
  • Softwares/Plugins: AutoCAD , SketchUp , V-Ray , Adobe Illustrator , Adobe Indesign , Velux , Climate Consultant and Weather Data by IMD , Flow Design for Wind Analysis , Adobe Photoshop
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Excerpt: The Interlace – Interweaving Tangible and Intangible is an Urban Housing project by Prajit Gupte focuses on affordability, community driven spaces along with light, ventilation and thermal comfort. The project’s final outcome attempts to create a response at the smallest scale, i.e., unit, by crafting the climatically and spatially beneficial spaces for the users. This cluster system helps create the desirable housing density in any natural shape of the site, making it replicable.

Introduction: When we talk about affordable housing projects, high-density community living, and slum rehabilitation, there is a vast amount of focus on creating community-driven spaces, infrastructure, and interventions for the community. Hence, the actual buildable units suffer in light, quality, ventilation and, most importantly, thermal comfort. 

The INterlace - Interweaving Tangible and Intangible | Urban Housing as a Product of Types, Density & Systems
Existing house types and their everyday acitivites

In the context of Amravati, where the climate is hot and dry with humidity going as low as 28% in peak summer (May), community spaces made to gather people become open plots due to heat. Hence, there is an attempt to create a balance between the thermal comfort inside the units and through the cluster formation by using climate study and integrating socio-cultural aspects in the final design project.

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Site Context

The site is located in the central part of Amravati city. The slums predominantly existed during the British era as labour for wood transportation through railways. Therefore, the site creates an important street edge and opportunities for commercial infrastructures for the people of Hamalpura.

The INterlace - Interweaving Tangible and Intangible | Urban Housing as a Product of Types, Density & Systems
Preliminary analysis of the site and context

Design Process

The design process started by understanding the nodes through diagrams and superimposing the existing internal network. The street edge helped in understanding the cluster differentiation along with orientation. The clusters were designed through a back-and-forth process focusing on hierarchy, quality of larger spaces, and thermal comfort in units. The cluster was then refined through wind analysis and lux level analysis. The master plan was developed through a series of iterations that looked into aspects of spatial qualities, hierarchies, geometries, and focal points and created a network of spaces and thoroughfares.

The INterlace - Interweaving Tangible and Intangible | Urban Housing as a Product of Types, Density & Systems
Wind Analysis through flow design
The INterlace - Interweaving Tangible and Intangible | Urban Housing as a Product of Types, Density & Systems
Selected matrix of ideas

These fundamentals, i.e., units, clusters, and cores, are then modified through a set of rules derived through the site creating a system that can be replicated to achieve the desired density on any given site in the context of Amravati.

Final Outcome

The project’s final outcome attempts to create a response at the smallest scale, i.e., unit, by crafting the climatically and spatially beneficial spaces for the users. The clusters are designed in such a way that they can be modified into a system that can be altered, modified through a set of rules on any given site in the context of Amravati. This cluster system helps create the desirable housing density in any natural shape of the site, making it replicable.

The INterlace - Interweaving Tangible and Intangible | Urban Housing as a Product of Types, Density & Systems
Formation of the cluster – Main
The INterlace - Interweaving Tangible and Intangible | Urban Housing as a Product of Types, Density & Systems
Combining Units – A1-A1 Configuration
The INterlace - Interweaving Tangible and Intangible | Urban Housing as a Product of Types, Density & Systems
The zoning and planning on the site

Due to the arid climate of Amravati, an attempt has been made to passively cool the units by using materials and screens in a way that resonates with the design and the function. 

[This Academic Project has been published with text submitted by the student]

Site Context

The INterlace - Interweaving Tangible and Intangible | Urban Housing as a Product of Types, Density & Systems
The INterlace - Interweaving Tangible and Intangible | Urban Housing as a Product of Types, Density & Systems
The INterlace - Interweaving Tangible and Intangible | Urban Housing as a Product of Types, Density & Systems
The INterlace - Interweaving Tangible and Intangible | Urban Housing as a Product of Types, Density & Systems
The INterlace - Interweaving Tangible and Intangible | Urban Housing as a Product of Types, Density & Systems
The INterlace - Interweaving Tangible and Intangible | Urban Housing as a Product of Types, Density & Systems
The INterlace - Interweaving Tangible and Intangible | Urban Housing as a Product of Types, Density & Systems
The INterlace - Interweaving Tangible and Intangible | Urban Housing as a Product of Types, Density & Systems
The INterlace - Interweaving Tangible and Intangible | Urban Housing as a Product of Types, Density & Systems

Design Process

The INterlace - Interweaving Tangible and Intangible | Urban Housing as a Product of Types, Density & Systems
The INterlace - Interweaving Tangible and Intangible | Urban Housing as a Product of Types, Density & Systems
The INterlace - Interweaving Tangible and Intangible | Urban Housing as a Product of Types, Density & Systems
The INterlace - Interweaving Tangible and Intangible | Urban Housing as a Product of Types, Density & Systems
The INterlace - Interweaving Tangible and Intangible | Urban Housing as a Product of Types, Density & Systems
The INterlace - Interweaving Tangible and Intangible | Urban Housing as a Product of Types, Density & Systems
The INterlace - Interweaving Tangible and Intangible | Urban Housing as a Product of Types, Density & Systems
The INterlace - Interweaving Tangible and Intangible | Urban Housing as a Product of Types, Density & Systems
The INterlace - Interweaving Tangible and Intangible | Urban Housing as a Product of Types, Density & Systems

Final Outcome

The INterlace - Interweaving Tangible and Intangible | Urban Housing as a Product of Types, Density & Systems
The INterlace - Interweaving Tangible and Intangible | Urban Housing as a Product of Types, Density & Systems
The INterlace - Interweaving Tangible and Intangible | Urban Housing as a Product of Types, Density & Systems
The INterlace - Interweaving Tangible and Intangible | Urban Housing as a Product of Types, Density & Systems
The INterlace - Interweaving Tangible and Intangible | Urban Housing as a Product of Types, Density & Systems
The INterlace - Interweaving Tangible and Intangible | Urban Housing as a Product of Types, Density & Systems
The INterlace - Interweaving Tangible and Intangible | Urban Housing as a Product of Types, Density & Systems
The INterlace - Interweaving Tangible and Intangible | Urban Housing as a Product of Types, Density & Systems
The INterlace - Interweaving Tangible and Intangible | Urban Housing as a Product of Types, Density & Systems
The INterlace - Interweaving Tangible and Intangible | Urban Housing as a Product of Types, Density & Systems
The INterlace - Interweaving Tangible and Intangible | Urban Housing as a Product of Types, Density & Systems
The INterlace - Interweaving Tangible and Intangible | Urban Housing as a Product of Types, Density & Systems
The INterlace - Interweaving Tangible and Intangible | Urban Housing as a Product of Types, Density & Systems
The INterlace - Interweaving Tangible and Intangible | Urban Housing as a Product of Types, Density & Systems
The INterlace - Interweaving Tangible and Intangible | Urban Housing as a Product of Types, Density & Systems
The INterlace - Interweaving Tangible and Intangible | Urban Housing as a Product of Types, Density & Systems
The INterlace - Interweaving Tangible and Intangible | Urban Housing as a Product of Types, Density & Systems
The INterlace - Interweaving Tangible and Intangible | Urban Housing as a Product of Types, Density & Systems
The INterlace - Interweaving Tangible and Intangible | Urban Housing as a Product of Types, Density & Systems
The INterlace - Interweaving Tangible and Intangible | Urban Housing as a Product of Types, Density & Systems
The INterlace - Interweaving Tangible and Intangible | Urban Housing as a Product of Types, Density & Systems
The INterlace - Interweaving Tangible and Intangible | Urban Housing as a Product of Types, Density & Systems
The INterlace - Interweaving Tangible and Intangible | Urban Housing as a Product of Types, Density & Systems
The INterlace - Interweaving Tangible and Intangible | Urban Housing as a Product of Types, Density & Systems
The INterlace - Interweaving Tangible and Intangible | Urban Housing as a Product of Types, Density & Systems
The INterlace - Interweaving Tangible and Intangible | Urban Housing as a Product of Types, Density & Systems
The INterlace - Interweaving Tangible and Intangible | Urban Housing as a Product of Types, Density & Systems
The INterlace - Interweaving Tangible and Intangible | Urban Housing as a Product of Types, Density & Systems
The INterlace - Interweaving Tangible and Intangible | Urban Housing as a Product of Types, Density & Systems
The INterlace - Interweaving Tangible and Intangible | Urban Housing as a Product of Types, Density & Systems
The INterlace - Interweaving Tangible and Intangible | Urban Housing as a Product of Types, Density & Systems
The INterlace - Interweaving Tangible and Intangible | Urban Housing as a Product of Types, Density & Systems
The INterlace - Interweaving Tangible and Intangible | Urban Housing as a Product of Types, Density & Systems
The INterlace - Interweaving Tangible and Intangible | Urban Housing as a Product of Types, Density & Systems

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