Grounded Growth
Rethinking housing for migrant workers in Ahmedabad, India
S.E. Hoţoi (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
R. Varma – Mentor (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
M. Tabassum – Mentor (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
F.M. van Andel – Mentor (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
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Abstract
The subject of this thesis emerges from the critical observation of the contemporary Indian landscape. The hands that build the cities have nowhere to sleep. In Ahmedabad, the skyline is in a constant vertical rise, while the people that help build it sleep in its shadows, on pavements or slums. Overall, the economic engine of the city relies on a massive migrant workforce, textile weavers, factory hands, rickshaw pullers, and construction laborers, which suffer constant housing threats. This project, titled “Grounded Growth” is an attempt to bridge the gap between the exclusionary architecture of the city and the kinetic, precarious lives of its workforce. This report represents the final thesis of the graduation project called Global Housing. It is part of the Master architecture at TuDelft.