INTERIM CRIT 1

Crit went terrific with meaningful feedback by Prof. Nirmal, Kelvin & Lim. Idea of mutual symbiosis through skills of slum people and its use for city was acceptable by jury. Few innovative ideas shared by tutors as below:

By Prof. Joseph Lim
*Use existing low frequency train for mobility of infrastructure, train is not necessarily to be drive by fund of people only.
*Set a target model like Dabbawallas (person with lunch box) from Mumbai e.g. they deliver every lunch box on time and they recognized for their punctuality. Similarly idea of Papad making and other local food art can follow such system within rail corridor by use of existing train.
*Socio-economic development.
*Analyze potential of unambiguous areas on site and then make a decision on programme.
*Take benefit of existing low frequency train.

Prof. Nirmal Kishnani
*Issues of safety, security and barrier free environment especially children, because last year one student did railway land development and in the end she designed playground for children without safety measure consideration.
*One student won competition of future arc competition, problem was to build within 1000km of radius and student took project near railway line and proposed use of
transportation for construction. Use similar strategy of existing transportation for development.
*Make people think for second level of livelihood e.g. In delhi one Tea maker using solar panel to charge mobile phones and opening more opportunity for earnings.
*Study highland corridor of New York for lucid analysis of site potential.
*Use parametric architecture only if needed otherwise avoid in this particular project.

Prof. Kelvin Kan
*Idea of mutual symbiosis is strong enough to derive Design Programme.

Existing Pressure zone on Metro line.

Existing 21 station along Rail corridor.

Restting nodal point system to create minimum distance model.

Skills determine habitation

RE-ROOTING RAIL CORRIDOR- HOPE FOR SLUM UPGRADATION- A CASE OF DELHI

FINDINGS:

According to the UN Habitat, 2006, slums typically have the following characteristics:
LACK OF WATER
LACK OF SANITATION
OVERCROWDING
NON-DURABLE STRUCTURES
INSECURE TENURE

It is estimated that, on average, a slum area that contains around 20% of a city’s population will have around 50% of its diseases.86% of the urban poor in Delhi are illiterate. 23 million children aged 5-14 are believed to work. Nearly 200,000 people migrated to Delhi every year between 1991 and 2001.Source: http://www.asha-india.org/news-and-information/facts-figures.The lives of hundreds of millions of slum dwellers are threatened by the lack of access to the most basic human requirements: water, sanitation, shelter, health, and education. The nature and extent of the daily challenges posed by existing slums are threatening.

World Bank 2008 survey stated that Developing countries will triple their entire urban built-up area, generating the same amount of urban area as the entire world had cumulatively generated by the year 2000. Mumbai holds Asia’s biggest single slum, which is larger than National population of Norway.

For a case Delhi, the national capital of India, has the country’s second-largest slum population. Due to the rapid urbanization process, the urban core of the city today is under intense pressure of growing demands. There has been considerable rise in the demands with increase no. of population over the year. This population comes in structure of informal pattern of urban sprawl around or inside the city.
The vision is to look at informal pattern as resource, which seeks integration with city, which is essential for mutual symbiosis. Major attributes will be decongesting slum through physical, economic, community and environmental development, with existing urban fabric. A prototype low cost development for rest Indian metro cities.