Breaking Wall

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: The Urban Escape, Designing a community of eco-habitats.
POSITION: WINNERS (Second price)
DESIGN TEAM: Manish Mahendran, Jayanth S
The site is located on the outskirts of Bangalore which is a beautiful city with several large lakes, numerous gardens, charming bungalows with flowering creepers and fruiting trees, and teeming birdlife. But however due to the rapid growth of urban population from 2001 – 2021 causing unplanned urbanization with a high density of population, more traffic jams, high level of pollution, unaffordable housing, crating slums, urban crimes, high cost of livings, environmental degradation, and sanitation and water shortages. Keeping all these questions in my mind we are trying to propose a regenerative community, our prime focus is Green building, clean energy, sustainable farming, water harvesting, and management. Creating a sustainable social happiness experience for everyone. The housing buildings are simple open house plan. Made of only locally available materials like mud, stones, and wood. Passively ventilated with courtyards to ensure a cool climate, added with rainwater pond, solar roofs, individual permaculture kitchen garden, and solid and wet water management. A greenback courtyard connects the cluster of houses crating open spaces, social interation zones. The pedestrian pathway leads to waterfront community dining, urban garden, and greenhouse, market, and clubhouse areas.