OPEN SOURCE URBANISM

Preamble

A means of bringing about constructive and agile change to the Urban Built Environment of the City of Delhi via the Site by evolving the School engaging the Stakeholders in a Continuous Process of Development

 

Urban Built Environment

Everything that is included in the ‘real’ and ‘perceived’ - Discursive, Perceptive and Historic Register of the Built Environment

1.       1. Discursive Register

a.       Discourses and thinking on the urban environment – academic rigour

b.      Trivial discourse on the urban environment – sound-bytes on the ‘street’

2.      2.  Perceptive Register

a.       Built form – look, feel, touch of ‘buildings

b.      Open and void spaces – look, feel and touch of ‘voids’

c.       Infrastructure and systems – transport, communication, means and modes

d.      Sustainability, ecology and environment

3.      3.  Historic Register

a.       Heritage of the built environment

b.      Conserving and interpreting histories of urbanism

 

City of Delhi

1.       1. The many pasts of the City – the seven re-birthings

2.      2.  The many presents of the city – the city for the various peoples and communities

3.       3. The many futures of the city – the city and the ‘river of time’

 

Site

1.       Physical constraints and issues – topography, vegetation, soil

2.       External geographical parameters influencing site – wind, rain, sun

3.       Sociological context of the site – city, village, forest

4.       Ecological parameters – ridge, water, lung

5.       Urban surroundings, issues and concerns – residential, commercial, rural

 

School

1.       1. What the school was meant to be

2.       2. What the school has become – ‘the inheritance of loss’

3.       3. What the school needs to become

 

Stakeholders

1.       1. Academic People – professors, researchers and students

2.       2. Professionals: Architects, planners and policy makers

3.       3. Other institutions: Other schools, CoA, IIA, Central and State Governmental machinery, other institutions

4.       4. People of the city: People affected directly [due to either proximity to the site, or proximity to people in the institution], and people affected indirectly by the school and the site.

 

Continuous Process of Development

The method of continuing development

1.       1. Derive from issues, concerns and context [The SPA UD design process]

2.       2. ‘Set the stage’ on the site [The SPA UD proposal]

3.       3. Define policies and method

4.       4. Engage with stake-holders

5.       5. Delta-change on site by stakeholders affecting

a.       The site

b.      The school

c.       The city

d.      The stakeholders

e.      The urban built environment

6.       6. Query "Is the School's work here done" IF 'Yes' THEN GOTO <7> ELSE GOTO <3>

7.      7.  End