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Humanising infrastructure

Humanising infrastructure
Aakash Bhanushali, 2019


Over time cities have consolidated their neighbourhoods when new infrastructure is built to respond the requiring city conditions and often they don’t function with the neighbouring context. These are designed to function for a singular purpose which often fails to identify the multiple spatialities, the form and the characteristics of an infrastructure offers. Due to this, the infrastructure and the space it occupies remains dead and disruptive. The designs of the infrastructures de-humanise the space they occupy and the landscape becomes grey.

This work looks at the public infrastructure like flyovers and pedestrian subways in the city and analyses their spatial characteristics such as form, activities, movements, scale and materiality. This analysis is undertaken to understand the spatiality that makes the infrastructure disruptive and dehumanising. The work aims at developing public infrastructure that is less disruptive and sustains the urbanity of the place.

The methods used for the analysis is to sustain sociability, performability, inclusiveness and dynamic quality of place-making with respect to their spatiality of the neighbourhood. This will help on how the design of a flyover/ subway can be humanised with its spatial characteristics. The main question for the research is: - What will be the spatial form of a flyover/ subway which is humanised for the neighbourhood? The thesis aims at developing functions to answer the question.




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