EUTOPIAN URBAN VILLAGE

Project idea

A land that may be the target of developers and builders in order to create and generate capital for personal satisfaction leaves a dispute between the governing bodies and the people. Therefore, this project takes forward a narrative which holds the government as the client and a ray of hope arise for the people to look forward to their leaders. Recently, with the increasing diplomacy and economic development in India, the Prime Minister has been smart to promote India as a “soft power”, for example, the establishment of the “International Yoga Day” on the 21st of June. Therefore, this project is seen as a way to extract maximum investment for the village from the elite businessmen by promoting “Spirituality and Cosmology” and balancing the increasing inequality in India, at the same time, maintaining a sustainable and spiritual growth of the nation

Project description

This architecture thesis paper takes a ‘eutopian/pragmatic’ approach in tackling the problems occurring in our daily lifestyles, by carefully placing a new kind of self-sustainable urban village in the farmlands across the Ganga, in Varanasi, India; farmlands that may be lost due to chaotic sprawling and land acquisition by developers as suggested by the 2031 Masterplan of Varanasi resulting in overpopulation, affecting the state and country’s GDP and loss of livelihood of the farmers thereby. The new ‘urban village’ takes all its resources, technology, creativity from the ‘urban’ and maintains the agricultural identity, its soul and unity between the people from ‘village’. In turn, this ‘new’ self-sustainable urban village holds the possibility of saving this land by providing a thriving environment that has a certain independence, supports the spiritual growth of its people, generates capital/job opportunities and saves transportation costs in the chosen area. The research’s quest on spirituality led it to unexplored terrains of certain new concepts. One, a way to eradicate the negative energies in a space, i.e. geopathic stress and one to come to the realization of ourselves as a part of something greater than ourselves, i.e. archeoastronomy.

Technical information

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