Thirty-six foreign students of social architecture will study the history of Indian town-planning to prepare a hypothetical housing project for employees of Tata Motors’s Nano plant.
Thirty-six foreign students of social architecture will study the history of Indian town-planning, and analyse housing plans and the area around Sanand, to prepare a hypothetical housing project for employees of Tata Motors’s Nano plant. The project prepared by the students, who are in Ahmedabad for a two-month architectural workshop, will be taken into consideration by the Sanand Municipal Board.
Students of the fourth and fifth years of architecture from Germany, Spain, Belgium, Australia and Bangladesh began their project on Sunday. The workshop is a joint project between Cept University and the Vastu-Shilpa Foundation for Studies and Research in Environmental Design (VSF).
“The students have just arrived. First off, they will visit buildings designed by professor B Doshi. Their workshop will also include visited to other architectural monuments like the Adalaj ni Vav, temples at Patan and Ahmedabad’s Walled City. The lectures will be held at the VSF and Cept campuses,” said Vishwanath Kashikar, professor at the School of Architecture at Cept University.
Some of the students who are part of the workshop will be an added advantage because of their experience in social infrastructure. Kordian Camill Wirkus from Stuttgart in Germany has already help design schools in Egypt.
“We kept applications open to architecture students from across Spain and selected the 15 students who are here today. They were selected on the basis of their keen interest and experience in habitat design,” said Luis Basabe, an architect and faculty member of the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid in Spain. Basabe will also attend another three-week workshop with ten other architecture students from Spain, at Cept University.
In addition to resolving economic, social and cultural dimensions of buildings and enhance environmental sustainability, the students will built a hypothetical township for the employees of the Nano plant.
“The students will be divided into groups of four or five for the housing project at Sanand. The project will involve planning and designing between 100 and 150 houses with facilities for community and building representatives. When we spoke to the Sanand Municipal Board about the project, it expressed a keen interest in the study,” Vishwanath said.
(Aidila Razak contributed to this story)
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