"uuid","repository link","title","author","contributor","publication year","abstract","subject topic","language","publication type","publisher","isbn","issn","patent","patent status","bibliographic note","access restriction","embargo date","faculty","department","research group","programme","project","coordinates" "uuid:22740724-7086-43cb-8c82-28ff27661a9c","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:22740724-7086-43cb-8c82-28ff27661a9c","Towards a Habitable Earth: Transitional Logistics: A New Transportation Template in The Kullu Valley","Mc Gaffney, Ryan (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","van Bennekom, Henri (mentor); van der Meel, Hubert (mentor); Lousberg, Louis (mentor); Amorim Mota, Nelson (mentor); van den Dobbelsteen, Andy (mentor); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2018","Manali, the second largest urban settlement in The Kullu Valley, is a major tourist destination in the state of Himachal Pradesh. The town is made up of two setlements, Old Manali and New Manali. The original settlement of Old Manali is located high in the hills above New Manali and has an urban morphology which
has been built up slowly over time around a major market street. The location and urban fabric of Old Manali makes it inherently resilient from the major natural hazards which Manali faces, mainly landslides, avalanches, and earthquakes. However, it is the heritage, alongside the recreational activities which bring tourists to Old Manali. These activities are accommodated by the local inhabitants of Manali, who mainly live in the settlements closer to the river, in New Manali, and by doing so put themselves at risk of landslides. This risk has come about through over development in New Manali. New Manali’s urban belt has expanded into the town’s nature reserve to create access to the Manali highway and The Rohtang Pass beyond. By doing this, New Manali provides and entry point for tourists traveling to Old Manali, with the linking road between the two settlements being continuously occupied with traffic which moves tourist between the two settlements. Here we see a system of Supply and Demand between these two sub regions of Manali. Therefore, the tourism industry has destabilized the resilience of New Manali, through uncontrolled over evelopment, which has led to an environment which is highly susceptible to landslides but also contains living environments which on an everyday basis are detrimental to
the health and safety of the local residents of New Manali. However, it is not tourism itself that is causing these problems, it is the way in which tourism is managed that creates this unsustainable environment. The most notable aspect of this is road traffic. From this analysis, a new station house is proposed, removing the car from the streets of Manali and replacing the link between Old and New with a cable car. It is located in an expanded nature reserve which aims to re-stabilize the ground which leads from the towns urban belt to the river,
preventing landslides. The station house will be constructed from a new typological hybrid which interrelated the building methods of the vernacular Kathkhuni with the typological flexibility of the modern vernacular, allowing it to be adapted from a singular home to a large public building. By doing this, small units will interlink, enabling the construction to be completed by unskilled workers and make it a constructible typology available to all.
This station house acts as a test unit for the reproduction of this typology throughout the valley, enabling the expansion of the cable car system and the hybrid construction system, to renovate unsafe concrete structures. This
transportation system is then connected digitally through the introduction of a digital mobile app, connection people and transport both physically and digitally.","Resiliency; Sustainability; Circularity; Transportation; Kullu; India; Global; Circular Economy; Himalaya; Architecture; Construction; Bamboo; Hemp","en","master thesis","","","","","","Ryan McGaffney is a Scottish architecture graduate with a deep interest in the implementation of sustainable development and resiliency in the built environment. He is a graduate of The Mackintosh School of Architecture, The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, United Kingdom, holding a Bachelor of Architecture which he received in 2014. In 2018 he graduated cum laude with honourable mention from TU Delft, The Netherlands with a Master of Science in Architecture, Urbanism, & The Built Environment. He has worked in the field of architecture at Tham & Videgård Arkitekter in Stockholm, Sweden, and Denton Corker Marshall Architects in Melbourne, Australia. - August 2018","","","","","","","Atelier for Resilient Environmental architecture","32.245879, 77.191282"