Project period: 14th January– 23rd April 2019
Participated MLA students: Mitali, Xiaowen, Manasi, Wing fai, Chen nan, Yuke, Elsa, Yanru, Isabel, Liu ye, Rahmat, Mengjiao, Qinqin, Lixia
Studio tutor: Yun Hye Hwang
Local collaborators: Dr.Harini Nagendra (Azim Premji University), Dr.Annapurna (Jala Phoshan Lake), Sriganesh (FICUS), Rahul Paul (InDe), and Maithily Velangi (BMSCA)
Bangalore is water stressed. The water source in Bangalore, apart from the Kavari River, is a hole in the ground. Increase water demand is emptying the city’s lakes and drying up aquifers. At the same time, the central part of the city is struggling with frequent flooding because of the loss of natural flood storage areas and leaks in hydrologic engineering systems. 13 students in the Landscape Architecture (MLA) program, part of the Architecture Department in the National University of Singapore, participated in a studio to develop Blue-Green landscape infrastructure for the district of Hebbal Kempapura where the area contains various urban landscape typologies within a dense urban village context. These typologies have potentials to be successfully transformed from monofunctional spaces into water-resilient landscape infrastructure for integrated water management that could address water-related environmental issues in the city scale. The key issues are: draught and flooding on a nested scale; associated environmental issues (e.g. wetland degeneration, waste disposal, environmental pollution); water consumption and everyday landscapes; participatory community development against the projected water crisis.
See more details are in the studio book.