The Dual Home
Creating Spaces for Living and Work in Ahmedabad
P.T. Aung (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
R. Varma – Mentor
F.M. van Andel – Mentor
M. Tabassum – Mentor
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Abstract
The urban fabric of Ahmedabad, India has witnessed a drastic structural change following its post-industrial decline. Shifting from salaried factory employment to casual and informal home-based labour. Consequently, environments originally designed for an only single domestic purpose were forced to take in economic activities, resulting in spatial conflation, spatial stress by overcrowding and inescapable visual confrontation with the labour. Addressing this reality, this graduation project researches how housing typologies in the Calico Mills can be designed as a dual use environment that supports home-based work without jeopardizing domestic wellbeing. The project reframes privacy not as a strict barrier but as a transitional zoning system of private, semi-public and shared spaces.
Using a context sensitive, mixed approach, the research utilizes ethnographic fieldwork, multi scalar architectural cataloging and case studies to develop a design proposal. Rejecting complete tabula rasa redevelopment, the project adopts site specific interventions to preserve existing urban familiarity and daily routines.