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Architecture of humanisation and claims

 Claims and its Spatialities
Shrushti Jain, 2018


This work aims at understanding the architectural form that is able to hold diversity of activities and lives. As a case study I looked at public transit related infrastructure which includes flyovers and skywalks.

My main research question is:  How do people claim planned public infrastructure such as streets, skywalks, sidewalks and flyovers in the city?

The aims and objectives of the research are:  To understand what is the architecture of claim? How is public infrastructure humanised and how is it appropriate to lend itself for multiple use of the spaces.

The sub question includes:
● Who is claiming it and why?
● What are the different types of strategies of claim?
● What are different forms of claim?
● How do different forms of claim manifest as a space?
● What are the different arrangements or mechanisms through which the claim operates?

THESIS STATEMENT: Appropriation of planned transit infrastructure such as streets and flyovers through various claiming practices generates new spatial configurations that humanise these mega infrastructures.

Glossary for this work:

Infrastructure: Drawing from the writings of Abdoumaliq Simone’s paper on People as Infrastructure, I intend to extend the notion of infrastructure to the social practises defined by people’s everyday activity in the city. We understand that human bodies and infrastructure have a dialectic relationship, where they constantly make each other.

Claim: In an urban context, claim is a belonging or notional right that one acquires over property, land, space by occupying it over time. The nature of claim shapes the form of the space. The transformation of the space is often assessed with the idea of increasing the affordability of the space.



Read also under ‘Claims and its Spatialities’:


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The claims of everyday street



Claims and its Spatialities
Abhilasha Ambhire, 2021

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Mumbai's street religiosities: spatial negotiations and making of public space

Claims and its Spatialities
Karan Dalal, 2018

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Land tenure dynamics and built form


Claims and its Spatialities
Nidhi Mehta, 2021

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Architecture of watching



Claims and its Spatialities
Riya Parekh, 2018

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Architecture of mass living | retelling of tenurial relationships


Claims and its Spatialities
Ruchita Sarvaiya, 2021

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Objects of the street: understanding articulation of street-space through furniture

Claims and its Spatialities
Vidhi Gandhi, 2018

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