CSI INSTITUE OF TECHONOLOGY

CSIIT

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN PRE THESIS

Undergraduate synopsis submitted to csi institute of technology as a practical

requirement for my degree

Under the supervision of

PROF AR.SUMAN REKHA
PRINCIPAL

By
BOJJA SANKAR
18031AA012

TOPICS
1) Water experience center/water front development
2) Cenotaph (memorial) kappri shrines
3) Brown field development

JUNE 24th 2022

INTRODUCTION-

TOPIC- water experience center/water front development

JUSTIFICATION-Rivers are the genesis of civilization and over the time period, later
which became a cultural and spiritual symbol of life.
This topic basically is to evolve a design that pays a tribute to water and peserve it
for the current chaos that is being created by humans specifically in the ganga river
basin.

HISTORY- In Hindu mythology the Ganges river was created when Vishnu, in his
incarnation as the dwarf brahmin, took two steps to cross the universe. On the
second step Vishnu's big toe accidentally created a hole in the wall of the universe
and through it spilled some of the waters of the River Mandakini. The Mandakini
River drains into Alaknanda at Rudraprayag. Alaknanda then makes its way to
Devprayag and merges with Bhagirathi river to form the mighty Ganga River

Meanwhile, the great mythological king Bhagiratha was concerned to discover that
60,000 of King Sagara's ancestors had been incinerated from the stare of the Vedic
sage Kapila. Wanting these ancestors to reach heaven, Bhagiratha asked Kapila how
this might be achieved. The response was to pray earnestly to Vishnu and perform
ascetic acts for a thousand years. The great god, gratified by Bhagiratha's piety,
agreed for Ganga to descend to earth where she might wash over the ashes of the
60,000, purify them, and permit them to ascend to heaven. There was a problem
though, that if Ganga merely dropped from heaven her swirling waters would do
untold damage. Therefore, Shiva offered to gently lower the goddess in his hair
which he did, rather cautiously taking 1,000 years. Safely arrived on earth,
Bhagiratha guided Ganga across India, where she split into many subsidiaries, and
successfully washed the ashes of Sagara's ancestors in her sacred waters.

NEED- The ganga river is one of the most prominent and largest river in india where
it stretches from allahabad to to varanasi. This river bearing the greatest history of
india has its own traits, as it has rich for its biodiversity that it created along the
stretch and also for the marine ecosystem that it created, the no of people that are
dependent in it for their livelihood and the religious deeds that it holds needs a lot of
attention.
AIM-

The aim is to create a experience center that allows users to experience the water in
a different way as the list of activities that based on the river and its banks are
polluting it right now.

To achieve this there is a need to study the ecosystem,marine life, activities that
happens on the banks(cremation,rituals,baths etc..) and about the economy that it
creates for local people (dhothis, brick klins, fishermen etc..) and also the aspects of
the river (flow,capacity, climatic conditions, soil conditions, water levels etc….)

OBJECTIVES-

Strategies that involve are rejuvenating the usage of the river, The provision of ritual
tanks and various other urban design structures, which come in the form of
platforms for discourse and cremation, will allow activities to take place in a
controlled way, thus potentially reducing pollution, introduce reforestation with
resilient plants stabilise the edges, building ghats will help stabilise the river edge
while offering an interface between human and water, to create a whole new center
that allows all the activities to go simultaneously with out interrupting or causing any
damage and also to design prototypes or design solutions that can be used in
multiple areas of the banks in different spaces.
METHODOLOGY-

INTRODUCTION

THEORETICAL UNDERSTANDING

BACKGROUND STUDY CASE STUDIES

-Location study -study of the site

-Ganga basin study -auditoriums
-Strategies behind the existing - religious spaces
Built form -ghats study
-History (ram ghat,ujjain)
(nanded riverfront development)
(Seoul water front development)
-comparative analysis

SITE STUDY AND ANALYSIS

SITE SELECTION AND JUSTIFICATION

CLIMATE

-perception of rainfall
-annual floods

PHYSICAL CONDITIONS SITE ANALYSIS

-topography -existing conditions
-evolution of the location -issues of the site
-built fabric of the city -potential elements
-accessibility for redevelopment
-landscape patterns -inferences
-built forms
-edge conditions
-services
-social and economics
-religious spaces
-transportation
-study of existing ghat
-movement mapping.

DESIGN STRATAGIES THE DESIGN

-mapping the memory the design interventions
-redevelopment or designing new ghats
- new built forms according to the site study
-enhancing the local architecture and respecting the user
SCOPE-

Research scope- To study about various activities that are generally dependent on
the river river like dhothis, brink kilns, agriculture, fishing, sand mining, boat men,
pundit, sadhus, aghoras, tourism. To create recreational spaces thats adds value to
the design there is a need to study about auditoriums for government meetings,
seminar halls for spiritual teachings, exhibition spaces to educate the importance
and the history of ganga, temple areas for poojas and yagaas etc.

Design scope- To design elements that help people to rejuvenate the whole process
of how they experience water like designing ghats,cremation centers, housing units,
public washrooms, bathhouses, spaces for public uses on an urban context and
design spaces that add value to the existing structures and respects them by
understanding the site context.

LIMITATIONS-

INTAKES- to design spaces like gallery spaces, sculpture centers, offices, research
labs, art studios, library performance centers(indoors and outdoor), pavilions,
educational spaces, ganga action spaces, NMCG office (national mission for cleaning
ganga), temple spaces, yoga center, restaurants, retail spaces, spaces for ganga
harathis etc.