| Title of the Lecture | Expressing ownership in community living - A study of residential entrances in CIDCO Housing in Navi Mumbai. |
| Subject | Architectural Design |
| Session | 2023-24 |
| Year | Fourth Year |
| Semester | VII |
| Faculty Subject Coordinator | Prof. Rupali Vaidya |
| Faculty team | 1. Prof. Rupali Vaidya 2. Prof. Jinu Kurien 3. Prof. Anand Sahasrabuddhe 4. Prof. Avinash Sabhagani 5. Prof. Sayalee Kulkarni 6. Avishkar Bharti 7.Prof.Aditya Gujarkar |
Aim:
To understand the importance of an Architect’s role in the process of designing with due consideration to the participants’ sensitivity to user customization.
Objectives:
- Customization of boundaries by users to claim ownership of the place.
- Employing Architectural/ Design elements to customize boundaries to form an identity of the users.
- Identifying the gaps that exist between the mindsets of architects and users when it comes to designing a residence.
Mahatma Education Society’s Pillai’s College of Architecture, New Panvel organized a guest lecture by Ar. Pooja Ugrani on 21st July, 2023. For the Semester 7 students. This talk was supposed to trigger and orient them towards design considerations that will handling a social housing problem. In this talk, the speaker primarily focused on the expression of ownership at the boundaries of a domain by studying community living in an urban India environment. Her aim was to understand how architects play a crucial role in the process of designing, taking into consideration the participants’ sensitivity to user customization. Through the presentation, she discussed several case studies that she had conducted in Navi Mumbai, providing valuable insights into this topic. The students got an insight of incremental housing considerations while designing which if not done can develop in the form of illegal encroachments. The talk concluded with how appropriation and customizations feed into the creation of an identity for residents, how architects could become sensitive to user customizations, how can one bridge gaps in a fragmented practice by adopting a new design process and directions to study for other researchers. Residences in community living are symbiotic in nature and prefer to coexist in a peaceful manner that is advantageous to all concerned. Sensitive design of boundaries and the intermediate spaces that separate them can bring about peace and a lot of happiness in all our lives. Question and answer session followed in the end where students interacted with the speaker.
