<Building Stories>

2019
RV College of Architecture

This book is a documentation and research published as

a part of Urban Design Studio of 2019 in RV College of
Architecture, Bangalore

Research and Publication under the guidance of:

Dinesh Rao
Kamlesh Pohekar
Sneha D S
Swetha Gowri

All information unless cited are primarily documented by

8-B, B.Arch Batch of 2015 of RV College of Architecture.

Composition:
Pranav Singh
Kaushal M Y
Krishna Vamsi
Kiranmayee Kothapalli
Keertana Murthy
Keerthana Vivin
Kirthan Shekar
Karthik Shetty
Ketan Naidu
Lakshmy Narayanan
Muralikumar V
Madhuri Sharma
Monaal Mattoo
Melbin Babu Joseph
Mrinalini Anand
Mrinalini BM
N. Ajay Aravind
N Srishti Prabakar
NSS. Akhil
Namitha G
Naresh S
Neha Harish
Nikhil U Raikar
Nikhila U Raikar
Niriksha R Kadur
Paarth Agarwal
Ravi Kiran S Brief and Introduction
Pravani Pagadala <Ar. Swetha Gowri>
Richa Bhasin
Ramakrishna S Print
Roshni S <Printon India Pvt ltd,24th Main Rd, 1st Phase, J. P. Na-
Sumanth Nulu gar, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560078 >
Sachin S Gola <Building Stories>, RVCA B.Arch15B, 2018
Sadhvi Shridhar Chandrakesari
Vishal Kumar Patil

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CONTENTS

1. History and Introduction 8

2. Pedestrian Movement 12

3. Informal Boundaries 17
a. -Fixed, Floating and Fleeting
b. -Mapping Informal Boundaries
c. -Moving Vendor Carts
d. -Tea Stalls
e. -Water ATMs

4. Formal Boundaries 49
a. -Between The Building Sidewalk and Road

5. The Roads of Frazer Town 57

a. -Traffic Infrastructure
b. -Garbage Segregation and Collection
c. -Sections

6. Squatter Settlement 74
a. -A brief study

7. Borders and Boundaries 77

a. -A reading of Frazer Town

8. Studying The Nallah 81

9. Frazer Town Base Map 83

10. Site 1: Annaswamy Mudaliar School 85

-Re-evaluating/Connecting the community

11. Site 2: Annasawmy `Mood’ Dispensary, 91

An Urban Settlement And A Tree

12. Land Use 94

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The study led us to understanding an urban context with sensitivities that were projected onto
us by our faculty. We would collectively like to thank our core faculty for the guidance provided
throughout the semester, making us read urban environs in order to form our personal ideologies
on such a dense context. We would like to specially thank Ms. Sneha Seshadri, Design faculty, in
helping us put together this report which is the culmination of work compiled by every individual as
part of the studio.

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STUDIO BRIEF
Architecture Design 8

URBAN DESIGN STUDIO

Studio Duration: 01 Feb to 23 May 2019
FACULTY: Dinesh Rao, Sneha Sheshadri, Kamlesh Pohekar, Swetha Gowri

“….these are landscapes that do not just predate the enterprises of the European Enlightenment as much as cross
them and continue on their way…they are dynamic living trajectories, each a way of seeing as much as making
a land. We call these trajectories traverses. Traverse. a word that found common usage among naturalists of the
nineteenth century who recorded their observations as they crossed a land, refers as much to an act of transgres-
sion that stems from the imposition of a new imagination as it does to the transformative power exercised by the
land on the traversor, compelling a constant negotiation in the pursuit of a shifting horizon. It invokes landscape as
a phenomenon that is always in the making- both in the eye and in the land……
At first glance these crossings may appear as conflicts; but they are not. The difference between traverses is
too profound to entertain a convergence or, for that matter, a divergence. Each traverse instead is autonomous,
demanding the engagement of a particular language through which it represents, negotiates, intervenes and
transforms the land that is perceived. In this sense, property lines, tanks, mapped entities, events, photographs,
mantaps, gardens, and thotas do not share a common ground in Bangalore; rather Bangalore shares in their many
grounds…
This Bangalore, constituted by coexistent traverses, cannot be held to a boundary or a plan….neither can it be held
to a past…It is time perhaps to return Bangalore to an open terrain……one from which the Garden City emerged in
an intersection of extraordinary enterprises and one from which new traverses can begin to cultivate new imagina-
tions and fresh vocabularies for future interventions…”
Anuradha Mathur and Dilip Da Cunha
From the Epilogue, Deccan Traverses

PROBLEM:
The core objective of the studio is to speculate the nature and notion of the Urban; and demonstrate
through design, new paradigms of designing Urban space that is both socially relevant (inclusive) and
ecologically sustainable. It must also acknowledge and seamlessly accommodate the dynamic, layered
and functional aspects of the typical Indian urban life (without the typically accompanying chaos) with
meaningful interventions in the proposed sites.
PLACE:
The area of study is Fraser Town and the project specifically is an infill project dealing with a dense urban
situation with sites for intervention being currently un-used or under-used.
PROCESS:
The studio started with an exercise that required students to capture the essence of Fraser Town through
a visual narrative. A mapping exercise followed with given parameters for a systematic exploration. A
more defined site context was chosen as a result of the mapping. A Context Study was done with no giv-
en parameters but as a fluid, open-ended exploration. The Context Analysis (Neighbourhood Mapping)
was done in groups of two with a collection of 4 sites chosen for the intervention. After the context was
studied in substantial detail, a “Vision Plan” was conceived by each group integrating ideas of what they
deem as important in the area and how the proposed intervention extends and works with this vision.
Important generators for the program were derived from the Context study.
DESIGN:
A part of the Context study was to pay attention to Urban typologies that become important amenities
affecting the experience and liveability of a place. These typologies were studied not only in the Fraser
Town Area but as a recurring typology throughout the city of Bangalore and the Minor Project involved a
re-designing of the studied typologies:
Stationary Vendor assemblages, Moving Vendor carts, Toilets, Tea shops, Bus stops, Urban furniture,
Water ATMS, Information Centers (an imagined amenity for which they had to examine the feasibility of
having “information centers” and whether they would improve urban experience or sense of community).
The Major Project was to propose an intervention that takes off from the broad outline of the Vision Plan
that was arrived at collectively and addresses the issues, values and needs of the community through a
meaningful insert at the individual level.
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 FRAZER TOWN- HISTORY
URBAN DESIGN JOURNAL 2019

Earliest recorded maps of

Bangalore, before 1799
(4th Anglo- Mysore War)
Marking the beginning of
the British Settlement.
Sigekai shrubs act as
hedge boundaries of the
city- ‘Pete’. Road to
Madras marked on the
eastern boundary
British Troops from Madras
use this road to enter
Bangalore and army
troops settle around South
Parade (East of Halsoor
Gate) (1)

The northern portion of the Ulsoor lake Is encroached.

Increase in trees, Huge decrease in lakes. (2)
1820

1900

Stated that the British made an effort to increase the number of

trees. Seen that the number of trees around the Pete decreased.
Formation of the Ulsoor lake can be seen. (2)

1. Original maps sourced

from British Council Library
Archives

2. Nagendra, Harini:
1924 Nature in the City:
Cubbon Park Growth of Bangalore marked Bengaluru in the Past,
out. Cubbon park is seen acting Present, and Future-
Fraser Town Oxford University Press -
Ulsoor Lake as a buffer between the Shows lesser density of planted/ numbered trees. Higher
2019
Bangalore Pete and the British density observed around the main Pete, not much around
Pete
Cantonment (1) the Cantonment area. (2)

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NAME OF BOOK | FRAZER TOWN

PARAMETER STUDY
Earliest British
Settlements seen.
Civil-Military Line
marked; Current
extent of Fraser
1820’S
town within the
boundary Present extent of Fraser town.
functioning as
Cavalry Drill
Ground. Mention of
earlier village named
“Papareddypalya” Riding School
and Cavalry Drill
Ground seen.
Parts of current
Sivanchetty
Gardens used
for agricultural
1820’S purposes.

Railway Line
Established.
Extension of British
Settlement called
Cleveland Town;
north of General
Bazaar area
(Current
Shivajinagar)
1900
established to
decongest the
dense Bazaar.
Possibly as an
outcome of the Settlement
1890 plague.. observed
Extent of Ulsoor bordering
Lake bordering Railway track;
current boundaries current area of
of Fraser Town Richards Town.
St John’s
1911 Church acts as
prominent
landmark. Fraser
Town officially
planned and built
Clear from 1909
settlements
of Cleveland
Town and
Fraser town
on either
sides of the
valley/ nala
seen (to
1924
Inferences from Elevation map and settlement pattern:
perhaps
avoid the • The low lying parts (yellow) acts as a valley; a nala / stream that
mosquitoes). drains into Ulsoor Lake observed. The higher ridge (pink) has been
East used historically, for the most prominent buildings; buildings of
Bangalore significant power- churches and religious schools.
Railway • Least likely to be flooded and gains maximum visual prominence.
Station • Settlement seen away from the Nala, possibly because of the
marked on mosquitoes.
the official
map.
• The Northern edge of Fraser town is defined by the railway line,
while its South- Western edge on the lake contours.
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• The St. John’s Church Road eventually leads to Ulsoor Lake.

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PEDESTRIAN MOVEMENT
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INFORMAL BOUNDARIES
Fixed, Floating And Fleeting

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 GLOSSARY
1. ORGANIZED COMPLEXITY - the term refers to the complex nature of how an urban street works
depending on the time, place and nature of the event.

2. MULTICULTURAL - the term refers to the mix of different sects of people who reside in fraser town
with mutual understanding and negotiations.

3. FIXED - scale 1 - the term refers to the stationary spot of a vendor. eg. chai shop
scale 2 - the term will refer to the territory occupied by the vendor.

4. FLOATING - scale 1 - the term refers to the temporary stalls/ shops setup by vendors
scale 2 - the term refers to the produce/ raw material / goods of the vendor

5. FLEETING - scale 1-the term refers to moving carts, etc.,

scale 2- the term refers to the people/ customers

METHOD
The method employed to study the characteristics of the informal street vendors was photography,
interviewing and mapping through sketches and maps.
Four informal street vendors at different parts of fraser town were identified and analysed for the
following parameters - background study of the vendor, type of stall setup, mapping the movement (if
applicable), cycle of events, and so on..
This analysis leads to understanding the importance of the infomal street vendors in preserving the
urban ecology of a street and in the larger context .. city.

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THE STREET ECOLOGY
THE STREET ECOLOGY

The streets directly represent and reflect the identity and image of a placeor at large a cit
The streets directly the hotspotand
represent locations
reflect fortheindividual, group
identity and expression,
image sites at
of a placeor forlarge
exchange
a city.ofStreets
information
are and i
the hotspot locationsdialogues, leisure,
for individual, performane
group expression, andsites
display, a mode ofofsystem
for exchange for access
information and connectivity
and ideas, forums, and
of representation
dialogues, leisure, performane for athe
and display, modenature in the particular
of system for accessplace.
and connectivity and also a mode
of representation for the nature in the particular place.
Similarly in Fraser Town, Bangalore the streets represented who the people living are, what
theyBangalore
Similarly in Fraser Town, are leadingthe their life, the
streets different stakeholders
represented who the people involved
living in their
are, what daily
theychores, and so on
do, how
they are leading their life, the different stakeholders involved in their daily chores, and so on.
Although it seemed like there was a certain sense of equilibrium that was generated at the la
By thorough
Although it seemed like there wasobservation
a certain senseit was
of noticed thatthat
equilibrium therewaswas definitelyatimbalances
generated the larger created
picture. and equ
reached
By thorough observation to counteract
it was noticed thatthe unstability
there was deficaused by a certaincreated
nitely imbalances action.and equilibrium was
reached to counteract the unstability caused by a certain action.
Streets were seen to hold the idea of MULTICULTURAL nature of fraser town.
Streets were seen toVendors
hold theespecially were seen to understand
idea of MULTICULTURAL nature ofthefraser
instability
town.and makes balances through mu
tions.seen to understand the instability and makes balances through mutual negotia-
Vendors especially were
tions.
The streets of fraser town were seen to have diversity and easily adaptable spaces.
The streets of fraser town were seen to have diversity and easily adaptable spaces.

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Vendor 1 : fruits vendor

ASPECTS :
FIXED : location
FLOATING : fruits
FLEETING : customers

Vendor 2 : samosa vendor

ASPECTS :
FIXED : location
FLOATING : samosa
FLEETING : customers

Vendor 3 : Tender coconut vendor

ASPECTS :
FIXED : location
FLOATING : tender coconut
FLEETING : customers

Vendor 4 :Vegetable vendor

ASPECTS :
FIXED : location
FLOATING : vegetables
FLEETING : customers

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VENDOR MAPPING - TYPE AND ROUTE OF THE VENDOR

4
3

1
2

LEGEND

Vegetable vendor Origin of vendor

Fruit vendor Origin of vendor

Tender coconut Origin of vendor

vendor

Food vendor Origin of vendor

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 MAPPING LOCATIONS FROM WHERE THE VENDORS PROCURE THE MATERIALS
MAPPING LOCATIONS FROM WHERE THE VENDORS PROCURE THE M
Vendor 1 : fruits vendor
This vendor procures
his fruits from the
Vendor
elcetronic city market 1 : fruits vendor
on a daily basis.
This vendor procures
his fruits from the
elcetronic city market
Vendor 2 : samosa vendor
on a daily basis.
This vendor procures his
food materials in whole-
sale from K R market on
alternate days.

Vendor 2 : samosa vendor

This vendor
Vendor 3 : Tender coconut vendor procures his
food materials
This vendor procures the tender in whole-
coconuts from K Rsale
market on
from K R market on
alternate days and during sum-
mer time on a dailyalternate
basis. days.

Vendor 4 :Vegetable vendor

Vendor
This vendor procures 3 : Tender coconut vendor
the veg-
etables from K R market on a
daily basis. This vendor procures the tender
coconuts from K R market on
alternate days and during sum-
mer time on a daily basis.

Vendor 4 :Vegetable vendor

This vendor procures the veg-
etables from K R market on a
daily basis.

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 Vendor 2: Tender Coconut

“I open the stall at 8am and close by 8pm and make

about 2000rs on good sell days and otherwise
250rs to 300rs on normal days” Map showing the location of procurement
Of tender coconut.

The tender coconut vendor sets his stall by 8am

every morning. He brings produce every 2-3 days
from city market

The place chosen for selling coconut is ideal as it

is outside the dispensary unit. Patients who are ad-
vised to have tender coconut buy from here.

The garbage generated is mostly wet waste and

he leaves the day’s garbage in a carton box that is
picked up by the bbmp employees.

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10 pm
EVOLUTION OF THE STALL TIMELINE

At 8/8:30 pm everyday the Idle

left over tender coconut
is wrapped in the covr and
weights are laid in them

7 am

II Setting up stall
8 am

The tender coconut is ar-

ranged and ready for sale

Selling time

III

The shading is erected on

days on extreme heat

IV

8 pm

Tender coconut is gotten

in a mini truck and unload- Closing of stall
ed at the stall location
10 pm

The everyday cycle of the tender coconut vendor.

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th

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7 AM - 11AM

11 AM - 4 PM

4PM - 9PM

Understanding the movement pattern of people Understanding the traffic pattern through the day.
through the day.

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Structure, durability, materials Mobility, ease of movement,locking
system, turning system

Tarp roof

Wooden structure
with bamboo supports
Wheels chained to each
Wheels chained to post
other.
when not in use.
Metal sheet roof
street food, pani puri
Plastic panel
Three main wheel types Ope
Painted wood supports were seen. 1. Ordinary pane
tyres 2. Tubeless tyres
Steel inner surface which have longer life 3.
Bicycle wheel which is
seen all carts without
shelters.

Type 1 2 types of manual push pull Mo

mechanism hav
and
um
There is no existing halt
turning or locking
Wood mechanism for
these manually push
pull carts.
Steel spokes

Fruit,peanuts and
corn
 pull carts.
Steel spokes

Fruit,peanuts and
corn

Type 2

Type 1- four wheels

Wooden strips

Joinery of cart
Spokes made of steel/ pvc
hollow pipes
Rubber tyres
Extra wooden strip
to pull
Vegetable carts
Type 2- three wheels

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 Design: Keerthana Vivin

The design attempts to understand the needs of the vendors by looking at modifications they were already
doing and incorporating it in the cart design itself. The result was a cart that gives the vendor the flexibilty to
easily change his set up based on the kind of produce he is selling. Eg. Fruits, vegetables, cut fruit slices.
The design also also allows him to use the environment around him according yo his needs. Eg. With the
pole system for shelter; latching onto a neighbour’s cart.
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 Design: Kirthan Shekar

Framed Structure 50 x 50 x 5 Box sections

Water Tank
380 x 420 x 1600 Hinged at top

Ingredients Storage Shelf

750 x 420 x 600

Cylinder Storage with 2 Cylinders

750 x 420 x 850

4 x tables Cash Box

1400 x 420 x 100 1400 x 380 x 300

Ice Box
Utensil tray 1400 x 380 x 550
1000 x 420 x 300

folded adjustable telescopic supports

hinged to the enclosure`

Boiler flasks 1000 x 420 x 550 Dustbin

with 3 flasks for Milk, Coffee and Water 350 x 350 x 600

5 x collapsible chairs
350 x 350 x 200

Snacks bar 1000 x 400x 1000 + 300mm tall jars

bajji, bonda, biscuits, mitai jars, tobacco

2 x ramp 1500 x 400 x 50

for transportation

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Washing and Utensils

Tea, Coffee, Milk Pot

Storage

Ice box

Furniture
upports
Water Tank

Gas Cylinder Storage

Cash Box

Dustbin

Buscuits, Cigarettes, Snacks

Buscuits, Cigarettes, Snacks

COMPACT TEA
Mobile Tea Shop in an Auto

URBAN DESIGN STUDIO | Kirthan Shekar | 1RW15AT047 ? BARCH15B

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FORMAL BOUNDARIES
Between The Building, Sidewalk and Road

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C C
A A
S S
E E
1 2

R I
E N
S S
I T
I Sidewalk
D paved and
E T maintained.

N U
T T
I I High stone
O compound walls of
A No compound
height 1.5-2m with
walls. Built N
Setback metal fence on top
L edge is same
for institutional
as sidewalk A buildings on
edge. No Compound
L Promenade road.
setback. walls of height
1.5-2m

C
A
S
E
3

R Layered entrances.
Arched opening
E leading semi open
 E
3

R Layered entrances.
Arched opening
E leading semi open
space covered with
L tensile structures, that
I Legend leading to the
colonnade and then Huge front yard
G to the interiors. All of space.
Built these mostly visible
I from the street.
O
Sidewalk
U Compound wall
S with details
Road
showing the
building type i.e,
religious.

Fenced
sidewalk

Placing of
architectural
element on
the road.

FORMAL BOUNDARIES:
RESIDENTIAL AND RELIGIOUS

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No compound walls.
No sidewalks.
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CASE 4 COMMERCIAL (STAIRCASE LEADS TO ENTRANCE OF THE STRUCTURE)

Shaded Sidewalk region

sidewalk paved with
serving different
Sloped more as a material/ pattern
sidewalk. customer indicating the
No space for entrance the
compound. the shop. store.
Katte as
seating for
public

Setback
 Sidewalk space
used by shop for
seating area for
Setback customers.

Staircase
Sloped jutting onto the
sidewalk. sidewalk
Width of
about 1m. Katte also acts
as seating for
public as well as
customers of the
shop

Low height
compound
walls. About
1m high.

No compound
walls

Lighting techniques to
FORMAL BOUNDARIES: COMMERCIAL
enhance ambience of
the sidewalk

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CASE 5 COMMERCIAL (SIDEWALK DIRECTLY LEADS TO ENTRANCE OF THE STRUCTURE)

Sidewalk space Entrance

used as recessed.
additional Sloped
Entrance of the
storage as well sidewalk
shop deeply
as to draw connecting
recessed.
attention from to road
No compound.
customers.

Sidewalk paved
with different
material-
privatising that
Privatised with part of sidewalk
 Sidewalk paved
with different
material-
privatising that
Privatised with part of sidewalk
pavement infront of
material of cafe/shops.
shop owner’s Sidewalk here
choice. mostly used for
parking.

Part of cafe
open to the
street. Part of cafe
open to the
street.
Stone sloped
No sidewalk. sidewalk.
Platform for ts.
seating area of
customers

Inferences :

The Edge Conditions of building and street differed drastically

based on following:
● Building type
● Location of building on the street
● Number of users for the building
Sidewalk as ● Active time period of the building
preparation /
● Security
buying/ selling
area. ● Expression of privacy and public distinctions / way of
marking territories.

Keertana S Murthy
SPACE BETWEEN THE BUILDING AND THE STREET 1RW15AT043
VIII Semester

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THE ROADS IN FRAZER TOWN
Traffic Infrastructure
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Garbage Segregation And Collection

Vegetable

segregation is evident
because only a certain kind of
waste is generated.

Commercial
building

Fruit
Vendors

segregation is not unifrom

Food across fraser interms of Residential
residences.
Building

Idea of two bins and a bag

Segregation at source is the only way to
remedy this and here is where two bins and The infographic above explains the complete cycle of
a bag comes into picture. The ease of the
formula and the way it instantly cuts down
consumption and disposal of waste by different user
on plastic bags and the need for landfills to groups in fraser town.
accommodate them has made it a resound-
ing success. The colour coded system
makes it uniform and effortless to follow.
 organic waste rejects recyclable materials

Map explaining the segregation

and collection
points in fraser town on a daily
basis.
GARBAGE IN FRAZER TOWN
Inference:Garbage collection and segregation throughout Frazer town has been done con- Architectural Design Studio

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FraserTown sidering from small scale vendors to medium scale commercial sector and residence. Which
almost depicts the entire path of the garbage from the doors to the landfill/recycling unit. Namitha G
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 Inference:Although there is an understanding of the segregation of waste, considering there are a lot of people Architectural Design Studio
involved in the network it seems to have lost its importance due to which the proper recycling and reusing of the waste
FraserTown is not seen. Namitha.G
Sources: ”MAPBOX - Google Search”. Google.Com, 2019, https://www.google.com/search?q=MAPBOX&o-
GARBAGE COLLECTION q=map&aqs=chrome.2.69i57j0j69i59l2j69i60j69i61.5280j1j8&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8. Sadhvi Chandrakesari

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ROADS IN FRAZER TOWN
Sections
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MM ROAD - SECTIONS
SECTION -01

MM ROAD ENLARGED
SECTION (1:200)

IMAGE OF
SECTION -02
SSECONDARY ROAD
NEXT TO MM ROAD

01

MM ROAD ENLARGED
SECTION (1:200)

02

IMAGE OF SSECONDARY
ROAD NEXT TO THE
MOSQUE ON MM ROAD
SECTION -03
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IMAGE OF SECTION 3
ON MM ROAD

MM ROAD ENLARGED SECTION (1:200)

04

SECTION -04

IMAGE OF SECTION 4
ON MM ROAD

- RESIDENTIAL
- INSTITUTIONAL
- COMMERCIAL
- OPENSPACE

- FOOTPATH
- ROAD
- NALA
MM ROAD ENLARGED
SECTION (1:200)
PART PLAN ( SCALE 1:200 )

ROADS: SECTIONS

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MOSQUE ROAD - SECTIONS
SECTION -05

MOSQUE ROAD ENLARGED

SECTION (1:200)

05

SECTION -06

06

MOSQUE ROAD ENLARGED

SECTION (1:200)

07

08
SECTION -07
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08
SECTION -07

MOSQUE ROAD ENLARGED

SECTION (1:200)

SECTION -08

- RESIDENTIAL
- INSTITUTIONAL
- COMMERCIAL
- OPENSPACE

- FOOTPATH
- ROAD
- NALA

PART PLAN ( SCALE 1:200 )

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A Brief Study

KEY PLAN

DETAILED PARTIAL PLAN OF THE SQUATTER SETTLEMENT AND

ACTIVITIES MAPPED ACROSS THE AREA
(FROM TOP LEFT TO BOTTOM RIGHT) 1. Praying to their gods as and when they go to school and get back and even
casually when the children play in the afternoon, 2.The common space or the shared space is more often than not the work
space as well, 3. Children taking care of childern while the parents are away at work, 4.Typical scene in the afternoons when
it gets too hot to sit inside the house and there is time to kill, 5. Mid day homemakers break, 6.The shared spaces cater to
everyone, 7. Along the periphery of the main road, 8. Grandparents and their grandchildren, 9. Gardening as a past time

74 The squatter settlement has existed for the last 70 years along Netaji road and is today known as the "Ashoka Slum" with a total
of 200+ houses. The people living here stay either on a rental basis or continue to stay here across the third generation. Some of
.the original inhabitants have moved towards Pottery Town and beyond in search of income as well as due to space constraints
Srishti P
SQUATTER SETTLEMENT Niriksha R Kadur
Sachin S Gola
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1:100

DETAILS MATERIALS COLOUR PAVEMENTS DECORATION

SQUATTER SETTLEMENT: STUDY

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 BORDERS AND BOUNDARIES
A Reading of Frazer Town

“...as if the complexity of daily life could be accommodated right away through the freedom offered by the free plan, or
as if all the experience of fragmentation and what this meant to perspective could occur without disturbing the territory
of the city.”
Rem Koolhaas
Taking into very little or no consideration of people, when a portion of a city is planned, it is done so in
isolation. This violates how this planning could evolve by responding to its immediate surroundings. More
over planning is done in such a way that they provide boundary conditions instead of borders. This creates
fragmentation in cities, both physically and socially.

...The contemporary city, the one composed of these peripheries, ought to yield a sort of manifesto, a premature hom-
age to a form of modernity, which when compared to the cities of the past might seem devoid of the qualities, but in
which one day we will recognize as many gains as losses.”
Rem Koolhaas

Relation to the understanding of Frazer Town and what Koohlaas meant by this quote: I observed Frazer
Town to have certain few types of boundaries. 1 – Physical boundary conditions such as the railway line,
Ulsoor Lake forming a fringe boundary condition, etc. 2 – The social boundaries between different religions
in the neighborhood. Frazer Town for long has been associated with being a manifesto of diversity, but the
real intermingling of different communities in the smaller hubs are absent in most places. Therefore, when
Koolhaas refers to a sort of new-age modernity which according to him should take over, it applies directly
to places like this where in forging a new relationship with these boundaries can eventually turn them into
borders.

The neighborhood of Frazer Town is seen as a vessel. We have even come to the conclusion, through our
neighborhood analysis, that it is more of a source than a destination. But what I am pointing at is that this
could also be looked at as a place that provides for interactions with the rest of the city. By acting in a dual
condition, where it holds onto its nature of being a source, but also produces dialogue along its boundaries,
the very rigid, solid nature of these boundaries can be altered into becoming more porous and permeable
– thereby making it a border. This also aims at reinventing the visual imagery that the words ‘border’ and
‘boundary’ create. Borders need not only be fringe conditions, it can even become transition zones. And
from being on the periphery, they themselves could be centre conditions creating a new language for read-
ing of a city.

-Neha Harish

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A READING OF FRAZER TOWN
 Studying The Nallah In Frazer Town

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 THE NALLAH

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 THE NALLAH

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 NALA SECTION MAP

The Nala Here Has Road Next To It

Which Is Only Used By The People
Residing Here And Also Childern
Playing On These Roads And On
The Other Side The Building Just
Face Services And Few Windows
Over Looking The Nala
SECTION 1 SECTION 2 SECTION 3 SECTION 4

SECTION 5

SECTION 6

The Nala, After Mosque Road Has A

Very Different Character When
Compared To The Earlier Sections.

The Built, That Is The Settelements Are

In Very Close Proximity To The Naala.
Some Are Even Sharing The Sam Ewall
With The Nala. Due To This Sinario, Few
SECTION 7
Of The Buildings Dump The Sewage
Directly Into The Nala, Without Any
Sort Of Treatment. This In Turn Makes
The Nala Very Unpleasent.

Some Parts Of The Nala Is Being

Restored. The Reconstruction Of The
Retaining Wall Of The Nala Defines It
Well.
SECTION 8

SECTION 9 SECTION 10 SECTION 11 SECTION 12

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Nala Influence The Context Around It And These Sections Show The Variable Size Of The Nala
Architectural Design Studio
And The Variable Characteristics Is Also Seen In The Settlements Next To The Nala.
Ketan Naidu K(1RW15AT045)
Sources: Ravi Kiran S(1RW15AT076)
 THE NALLAH
NALA SECTIONS
BUILDINGS OVERLOOKING INTO
THE NAALA. NOTHING MUCH THAT
CAN BE DONE HERE DUE TO THE
CLOSE PROXIMITY TO THE NAALA.

SECTION 7

THE NAALA IS FENCED TO A

HEIGHT OF TEN TO TWELVW FEET
TO AVOID OVERLOOKING INTO
THE NAALA.

SECTION 8

SEWAGE PIPES DIRECTLY

DUMPING WASTE INTO THE NAALA
WITHOUT ANY SORT OF
TREATMENT.

SECTION 9

CONSTRUCTION HAS BEEN

STARTED TO BUILD A MUCH MORE
EFFECTIVE RETAINING WALL OF
THE NAALA.

SECTION 10

THE STREETS IN FRONT OF THE

SETTLEMENTS ARE NOT PRIMARLY
USED FOR VEHICULAR MOVEMENT
BUT INSTEAD, USED AS A
COMBINED BACKYARD.

SECTION 11

SECTION 12
2m 8m

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4m 10m

Inference: 83
Nala Influence The Context Around It And These Sections Show The Variable Size Of The Nala
Architectural Design Studio
And The Variable Characteristics Is Also Seen In The Settlements Next To The Nala.
Ketan Naidu K(1RW15AT045)
Sources: Ravi Kiran S(1RW15AT076)
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SITE 1: Annaswamy Mudaliar School
Re-evaluating/Connecting the community

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 RE-EVALUATING / CONNECTING COMMUNITY - NATURE
RELATIONSHIPS IN DESNSE URBAN SETTINGS

BUILT

FIXED

Demonstration / exhibition / gallery / event space - 800

Rental machine workshop. - 500

MACHINE-MATERIALS

Tool library and material drop off - 200

Maker space and RnD - 500

SUPPORTING

Vocational training with workshops. - 1000

Storage. - 600

EATERIES - 500

COMMUNITY BUILDING

Community house with provision for - 1000

small indoor sports,

festivities and hobby classes

Admin office.

UNBUILT
Water treatment

Community farming + Urban agriculture

Sports and Þtness

Transit

Event space

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MOORE ROAD
MAIGUND
ADEDA MUD
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40000

MAIGUNDAD
EDA MUDALIA
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50000

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 MARKETS, VENDORS AND HOUSING
Site 2
Annasawmy `Mood’ Dispensary, An Urban Settlement And A Tree

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 PROGRAM STATEMENT

MARKET PLUS VENDORS ASSOCIATION:

(Traditional market & Office for vendors association) = 600m.sq

COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTRE:

(Recreation + dispensary + community hall + 2 meeting rooms + community

kitchen+ OAT ) = 800m.sq

COMPOSTING:

(Wet waste) = 100m.sq

UPCYCLING WASTE:

(Studio to work on the up cycling process of materials + Stores to display the

up cycled items for selling = 600m.sq

COMMERCIAL EDGE:

(Eateries + commercial shops) = 500m.sq

HOUSING:
(30 UNITS)

80X5
40X15 = 1500m.sq
25X10

NAME : NARESH.S
USN : 1RW15AT064

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 MARKETS, VENDORS AND HOUSING
A Study Of The Urban Settlement

Case 1: Case 2:: Case 2::

The compound wall of the dispensary serves

as a background for vendor activities. The wall
which was actually intended as a visual
separator from the road an in between layer of
sidewalk activity has evolved.

Since the residences face a fairly busy

The backsides of these house open out into the street.
street with many vehicles passing by, an
The other side of the street is bound by a compound wall.
added sense of security is achieved by the
gate.

Case 4::

The street, leading to the nala does not see a lot of

vehicular activity. Also, with the dumpyard at the
entrance of the street makes it very unwelcoming.
Hence the street is used only by the people of the
colony and sees various activities involving all age
groups alike.

The end of the street has a slaughterhouse with

a blank facade facing the street which is in use
illegally.

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LAND USE
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