This community housing project for traditional performing artists and craftsmen, attempts to fuse the design skills of the architect with the collective consciousness of the dwellers.
This project involved the participation of a traditional community of performing artists and craftsmen in re-designing the urban fabric of their unauthorised slum/squatter settlement and thereby gaining legitimacy in the city of Delhi.
Unit plan, mud houses
(1) Verandah, (2) Room, (3) Cooking, (4) Court © Kamath Design Studio + Members of the Anandgram Community
A unique design process tapped into the community’s nomadic history while taking into account their contemporary socio-economic reality and skills, and their aspirations for the future. The project thus dealt with the generation and visualisation of urban form, and allowed all the complex parameters which generate that form to interact simultaneously and structurally to provide a built fabric for the community.
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"Looking Beyond – The start of a new Vistāra." In Vistāra - The Architecture of India, Catalogue of the Exhibition, edited by Carmen Kagal and MN Ashish Ganju. The Festival of India, 1986.
"III. 1975-1985: On Our Own, the Evolution of Contemporary Indian Architecture." In Architecture In India, 154-172. Paris and Milan: Electa Moniteur, 1985.
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Migration, Living and Earning, Shelter Meanings, Quality of Life. GREHA. Delhi, India: Greha, 1981.