Provide housing facility to Bhadra Plaza caretaker in vicinity: CEPT study

Fourteen students of CEPT University have recommended that the Bhadra Plaza caretaker’s family be provided with housing in the campus’ vicinity. As part of studio project ‘Rebel Bodies, Rebel Cities’, the students studied the plaza along with the Queen and the King’s tomb and the surrounding areas to understand the issues lying there. 

Their project aimed them to re-think rebellious actions or constructions, usually unrecognized by the urban designers, politicians and architects following a radical methodology. 

“Non-compliant individuals and communities who claim their own identities, aesthetics, and patterns of behaviors through radical spatial practices give shape to the rebel cities.” 

“The idea was to help students understand the problem in a holistic way rather than a biased manner. The families have been living inside the tomb and Plaza campus for many years now, the vendors have been selling in the surrounding areas for decades. Rather than discarding them, students learnt how to include them in design intervention in a more sensitive manner,” Mansi Shah, studio coordinator said. The students found families residing in Badshah no Hajiro, using the space inside the tomb. The issue of squatters in the tomb of the Queen and King is pertinent issue, says students adding. 

“In this process, they have knowingly or unknowingly damaged the integrity of the heritage monument.”The to-mb being a religious place as well, the family is paid by the Waqf committee to take care of this place but still, they carry out an occupation inside the tomb.” 

Our solution is to provide them with housing in the same vicinity so that travelling is not an issue for them thereby involving them in the design intervention.”

THE PURPOSE

Their project aimed them to re-think rebellious actions or constructions, usually unrecognized by the urban designers, politicians and architects following a radical methodology.