DESIGN SYNOPSIS FOR
RESIDENTIAL AND COMMUNITY
INTERVENTIONS FOR URBAN POORS
• ARCHITECTURAL THESIS DESIGN
SYNOPSIS :
• Aim
• Scope
• goals
• Objective
• requirements
• Limitations.
AIM GOALS
AND 1.
SCOPE OF THE DESIGN:
2.
Vijayawada a city in Andhra Pradesh,
which is situated on the banks of river
Krishna, with an area of 61.88 km.sq .
According to 2018 statistics the
population is 14lakhs.
After the bifurcation Vijayawada has 3.
become a major city of Andhra Pradesh
and it is developing rapidly.
A city is a combination of both positivity
and negativity, poor and rich, educated
and uneducated, literates and illiterate's, 4.
cruel and kind people etc.
"In every community, there is work to be OBJECTIVES :
done. In every nation, there are wounds to
heal. In every heart, there is the power to 1.
do it.” - Marianne Williamson
2.
As an architecture student I want to
address the problem of urban poor. So the 3.
main aim of this design is going to focus
on provision of residential and community 4.
intervention for urban poor, as there are
more than 111 slum region with more 5.
than 52990 households who are in the
conditions which are below the standards 6.
of living.
Reference : Ravij gandhi awas yojana pdf 7.
SUBMITTED BY :
silpa.v
15co1c4026
sem 7
pre thesis
11-07-2019
mspa v
To identify any informal settlement which is
easy access to me.
2. Talk to the residents and ask them about
their life, routine, festivals, rituals; neighbours
and community; their aspirations, their past.
Talk about safety, access to facilities, basic
needs, nutrition and diet, schools, education,
play and opportunities.
Explore their current dwellings and try to
understand their evolution. Dense, congested,
overcrowded , playing, community gatherings,
celebrating festivals, weddings and much more
spaces study.
To analyse and give solutions to the problem
that the urban poor are facing.
To design one community building and a
residential building.
To design a space which is programmatically
integrated to the users.
Building based on their religious and cultural
requirement's.
Providing an economically linkage with other
communities
Providing a platform where they can meet the
standards of living.
Provide a facility which correspond fully to the
issues and needs of the unique community
considering the phenomenal approach.
To invoke a architecture sense of belonging
and integration to their building.
• DESIGN REQUIREMENTS: There are two components to the design problem. Participants need
to work on both for a complete submission.

• ENLIVEN (MICRO) : A. COMMUNITY INTERVENTION: ADD TO THE COMMONS

• 1. Based on your onsite studies and community interaction identify one core public function
(Anganwadi, dispensary, waste management system, urban garden, play zone etc.) that can be
developed as a small-scale design problem.
• 2. Identify a site of not more than 200 sq.m and create a program for the same. This need not
be the regular plain ground we are used to; you can use the roofs, create a bridge over
pipelines, use temples and their courtyards, adaptive re-use an abandoned building. You may
even design temporally e.g.: The dhobi ghat shuts at 8.00 pm and when the washer
• men leave the space is converted to a night school classroom by a makeshift collapsible design.
• 3. The design and details must be developed such that the proposal can be executed on site.
Take into consideration the local laws and community approval. Your intervention should not
create any conflicts, but be supported by the community and other stakeholders.
• 4. The budget for the proposed intervention should not exceed Rs. 2 lakhs.
• 5. If possible, take into account adapted replicability of your intervention to other similar
contexts in your city/region.

• ENLIVEN (MACRO) : B. HOUSING DESIGN

• 1. Identify a residential area of 50-150 households. Understand the site, surroundings and
context.
• 2. Identify the category of users it is closest to in the PMAY policy document.
• 3. Design a housing for the identified household units taking into account all necessary
services and amenities.
• 4. Each dwelling unit needs to provide a comfortable living environment for a family of 5 with
25-30 sq.m carpet area (based on the category chosen as per PMAY) and the predominant
living condition. Think of incrementality; will the house grow with the family?
• 5. Plan for ancillary, community functions based on the community aspirations. Take into
account the needs of different users and their specific needs- women safety, accessibility for
aged etc.
• 6. Propose in-situ rehabilitation of existing slum dwellers using their land as a resource.
• 7. For this competition the project need not cross 50-150 households. If the settlement has
more than 50-150 units, kindly plan the solution in phases and detail the first part with
appropriate community spaces.

• LIMITATIONS :

• Wherever detailed data on socio-economic and community characteristic have not been
available, reasonable assumptions have been made based on observation and interviews with
local people.
• Submitting a research paper on PMAY.
•
• MACRO :
• Designing a residential area of 50-150 households.
• Structural, material and services calculations is ignored.
• Doing a local case studies for understanding the application of PMAY rules according to the
state bye laws.

• MICRO :
• Increasing the budget of community intervention up to 1.5% the actual budget.
• material study and application is considered for community intervention.