This document summarizes the on-site land survey and materials inventory conducted for an architecture project upgrading slums in North Kachpura, Agra, India. The project aims to utilize readily available local materials. An initial survey was conducted to map the slum area. An abundance of discarded railway materials was found on site, including 868 concrete sleepers, 1,384 wooden sleepers, 248 tracks, 62 I-beams, and 62 overhead electric columns. These materials will be reused in constructing a 750-meter pedestrian bridge connecting the slum settlements to the more developed market side across the railway tracks. The bridge design camouflages the materials to appear as if they have always been there.
This document summarizes the on-site land survey and materials inventory conducted for an architecture project upgrading slums in North Kachpura, Agra, India. The project aims to utilize readily available local materials. An initial survey was conducted to map the slum area. An abundance of discarded railway materials was found on site, including 868 concrete sleepers, 1,384 wooden sleepers, 248 tracks, 62 I-beams, and 62 overhead electric columns. These materials will be reused in constructing a 750-meter pedestrian bridge connecting the slum settlements to the more developed market side across the railway tracks. The bridge design camouflages the materials to appear as if they have always been there.
This document summarizes the on-site land survey and materials inventory conducted for an architecture project upgrading slums in North Kachpura, Agra, India. The project aims to utilize readily available local materials. An initial survey was conducted to map the slum area. An abundance of discarded railway materials was found on site, including 868 concrete sleepers, 1,384 wooden sleepers, 248 tracks, 62 I-beams, and 62 overhead electric columns. These materials will be reused in constructing a 750-meter pedestrian bridge connecting the slum settlements to the more developed market side across the railway tracks. The bridge design camouflages the materials to appear as if they have always been there.
This document summarizes the on-site land survey and materials inventory conducted for an architecture project upgrading slums in North Kachpura, Agra, India. The project aims to utilize readily available local materials. An initial survey was conducted to map the slum area. An abundance of discarded railway materials was found on site, including 868 concrete sleepers, 1,384 wooden sleepers, 248 tracks, 62 I-beams, and 62 overhead electric columns. These materials will be reused in constructing a 750-meter pedestrian bridge connecting the slum settlements to the more developed market side across the railway tracks. The bridge design camouflages the materials to appear as if they have always been there.
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ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO ONLY IN INDIA SLUM UPGRADING, NORTH KACHPURA, AGRA ARCHITECTURE OF RAPID CHANGE & SCARCE RESOURCES
NICHOLAS SOCRATES 2012
4 On location land survey, drawn on our rst day on site. Here we had to map a part of the slum which was not present on any map before (centre). This preliminary survey shows signs of looking into nala ow direction, land use and locating areas of neglect. All of which were further realised on later surveys in the following days on site. ONSITE LAND SURVEY QUANTITY SURVEY: REUSING THE ABANDONED RAILWAY ELEMENTS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE BRIDGE 81 On location, there was an abundance of railway material lying around not being used. Sleepers, railway tracks, OHEs, I-beams, etc, etc. I measured these materials with the intention to build with them. The theme of the project is Architecture of Rapid Change & Scarce Resources, so therefore whatever materials which are readily avaliable must be utilized in the project. There were thousands of materials all over the place on the site, so not only is it wise to utilize them, they are already part of the sites aesthetic. 868 concrete sleepers are used throughout this masterplan as foundations for the containers and also for channelling clean and dirty water. 1,384 wooden sleepers used on the bridge for oor planks and railings. The sleepers are thinned - decreasing their weight. 1860 halfs are used. 248 tracks are used on the bridge grouped in four for columns. Totalling 1,984 metres. 62 I Beams of are used on the bridge. I Beams at 9.5m (x 62) 62 OHE columns are used on the bridge as banister posts. One column is cut in 5 to make the posts. (5 x 62 = 310 parts) 186 OHE beams are used on the bridge as beams. 84 RECONNECTING COMMUNITIES: THE BRIDGE WILL LINK THE SLUM SETTLEMENTS WITH THE MORE DEVELOPED MARKET SIDE Ramp leading onto the centre of the site The community we got to know well over the two weeks on site Rail and pedestrian bridge 750m long. Pedestrian bridge only crossing one track. There is a big dierence between the quality of living on the market side, campared to the side of the slum settlements. INITIAL BRIDGE RENDER & SECTIONS 1:1000 & 1:2000 88 107 BECAUSE THE BRIDGE IS MADE UP OF THE VERY FABRIC OF THE RAILWAYS IT EXISTS AS CAMOUFLAGE; LIKE IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN THERE 90 THE MARKET SIDE THE WRONG SIDE OF THE TRACKS; Slum settlements segregated / cut o by the railway tracks. With a busy market on one side of the railway tracks, and a collection of slum settlements on the other; the two sides are separated. The slums, somewhat isolated from main-land Agra; exist as Edge-Lands and they have a rural /urban-rural feel to them. MARKET SIDE As soon as we crossed the railway lines, from our site, to the side of the market, we noticed a sudden change in the infrastructure; where everything is paved, the sewers are concreted and they are working very well; the quality of living is evidently higher on the market side, where the proximity to the centre of Agra (across the near-by Yamuna bridge) is much more accessible. The market sells most things and has a general industrial feel to it; selling all types of building materials with various factories and workshops in the area; here, business is relatively booming. There is a big dierence between the quality of living on the market side, campared to the side of the slum settlements. Here, on the market side, there are many things being sold, there is business and activity. Also, importantly the nalas are cemented - they are still open air sewers, but opposed to the slum settlements, where the waste water get discharged into the soil, which then spreads and pollutes the ground., here many things have developed much more rapidly. It appears that therailway tracks havesecluded or divided a community. 103 BRIDGE ASSEMBLY DETAILS 87 MASTERPLAN 1:2000 SHOWING THE CONTINUATION OF ACCESS FROM THE MARKET ACROSS THE TRACKS AND TO THE SITE 01 02 04 05 15 14 15 14 15 18 18 22 x 8" = 14'-9 1/4" 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 14 x 8 1/2" = 9'-10" 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 14 x 8 1/2" = 9'-10" 123456789 10 11 12 13 14 14 x 8 1/2" = 9'-10" 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 14 x 8 1/2" = 9'-10" 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 19 x 6 1/4" = 9'-10" 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 #DrgID #LayID #DrgID #LayID #DrgID #LayID #DrgID #LayID Parked Trucks Parked Rickshaws x 10 Parked Rickshaws x 5 Handicraft on Street Buffalo Farm Inside Dilapidated Building Wastepickers Waste Land Wood Factory Building Materials Bricks Bike Shop General Store School Industrial Materials Clothes Washing Clothes Shop Building Materials Hair Dressers Electrical Store General Store Clothes Shop Food Stall Rickshaws Dilapidated Building New Water Tower Abandoned / Dilapidated Old Railway Offce Abandoned Tunnel / Old Railway Station Railway Control Center School Abandoned / Outdate Railway Control Centre; part used for storage Hindu Temple Waste Pickers Railway Building / Generator Old Water Tower Abandoned Railway Maintainance / Warehouse General Store General Store General Stall Outdoor Muslim Temple 99.000 99.500 99.500 100.000 100.000 100.000 100.000 100.000 100.500 100.500 98.500 100.500 101.500 102.000 102.500 103.000 103.500 104.000 105.000 44 PHASES 15 PHASE 1: DEWAT PHASE 4a: CONTAINER WALL PHASE 3: BRIDGE PHASE 2: CENTRAL BUILDING PHASE 4b: UNDER THE BRIDGE MARKET PHASE 5: UNZONED TRADING MARKET