16 PART
A DISCUSSION WITH THE EXPERTS • DR. SAMEER DESHKAR Assistant Professor Architecture and Planning Department
Visvesvaraya National
Institute of Technology, Nagpur Areas of interest Urban Environmental Studies,
Climate Disasters, Disaster Management & Risk Resilience, Socio-
Ecological Systems &
Biodiversity Conservation, Green Infrastructure Planning.
Summary: 1.
To find the core intent of the project – Aquatecture.
Aquatecture is defined as an architectural adaptation typology used to mitigate and manage flooding (long and short term. With this typology, water and architectural design can unite to produce dynamic and reliable mitigation solutions. Solution in such cases can be categorised into 3
parts such as before flood, during flood, after flood. Three different categories may have different functional solutions according to their need.to understand
such solutions or aspects, there is a need to study the site context. What are the different Stages through which Architecture can help in Disaster Management Mitigation, Adaptations and Management on disaster prone areas are the basic architectural intents of the project. A detailed study of need can resolve
the activities to mitigate, adapt and manage floods.
Mitigations can allow us an early alarm due to which the mob can evacuate the space and resettle to some other space which are provided by the government. Adaptation can allow us to stay at the same location of disaster while adapting a typology which can sustain such disasters. (for. E.g. Amphibious Housing) Mitigation can allow people to evacuate and settle in temporary tents or refugee shelters fora period. Management of floods allows us to manage the flooding through architectural elements such as stilts or the form of the building can help us in many ways to manage floodwater and allow us to stay in that space during crises. How do they (cities) function during such situation Properly gathering the data of Indian floods and news updates, people usually are evacuated from such
crucial points of disasters, resettled or relocated from the area.
17 What will be the scale of the Affected area and through which you will be able to find the site Through different types of flooding one can find the suitable space to build an architectural intervention. But need a through data of flooding systems and their occurrence frequency. Different spaces will have different intervention need, such as rural or urban or semi urban area.
• DR. SHANKHA PRATIM BHATTACHARYA PHD. (BIT, MESRA)
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