 Good morning. Welcome, everyone, to this final session of this exercise of Dreamweaving the Crown. We have a lot of people with us today. We have our Dreamweaving architects. We have people from the focus group bringing different perspectives to the table. We have our experts, our analytical group. And we also have some silent observers from the community sitting at the back. And we have, of course, VSF here. Thank you very much for coming. Rajeev and Jaydeep, and we have Madam Secretary. Thank you for coming. And yes, so with this I will hand over to David and Mona. Good morning, everyone. So as we come to the final session, we are just giving you a few lines about how today we are structuring it and what happened in the last two weeks since we saw you all last weekend before two weeks. So our process, or our role, David and I as facilitators of this Dreamweaving the Crown process has been to kind of create a safe space for the Dreamweaving architects, the ones who came forward and took up this challenge to kind of actually see how to merge different, differing, strong opinions. And it's been quite a challenge for us because we are kind of winging it as we go. We have done this kind of for this large number of people. But we've been very nicely and ably joined and supported by the Citizens' Assembly team. And sometimes we had to kind of play in between all the differing interests of people and what they wanted and how they wanted the Dreamweaving architects to see things. And so we had to also be in between trying to figure out how to create this process in a harmonious way. And the Dreamweaving architects themselves also had after the last session some express that they missed the interaction between themselves. Just amongst themselves more because it's not just about presentation. So we also had some sessions where we had some meals in between us, just a lunch, a pizza evening, a tanghuri lunch in the forest. And it's really helped us to come together and make this kind of team where they all feel that they can work with each other, something that we have been hoping for a long time in Orville. And we hope that this is the beginning of something larger eventually. We've also had some crown walks and cycling. So with Jayanthi Ji we've had a cycling tour around the crown. We've also invited different people like the focus group and the randomly selected citizens to work on the crown, which was also very nice attended by some of the experts as well. So all this has been going on in the background in these last two weeks so that everybody can give the maximum and also support the people who are doing the work. I'm sure we might have maybe not satisfied everybody, but we're trying. We're also thinking what are the best ways. Like today's session we had I think last week about four meetings with the citizens assembly, sometimes three hours meetings because just to figure out how can we facilitate this in the best way possible with the time, with the limitations that we have. And I think it's been a great teamwork. So with this I'll hand over to David who is going to talk about what's going to happen in detail. And David maybe you would like to say something about the beautiful exhibition. Yes, some very special sketches from Roger actually. It's a wonderful coincidence I think that this moment that we're doing the presentation in the Unity Pavilion as the exhibition is going up. So I would highly recommend when in the breaks for people to sort of take a look at those. Yes. So basically to give you all a slight overview of the process till to date. So of course we started with a three-day workshop sessions which gave people the overview where the different experts were able to come and share their knowledge. And then as you can see at the top of the board it says dream weaving third weave. So the first one of those was just amongst the architects. It was actually decided as Mona was pointing out because a lot of the architects don't know each other very well and perhaps and certainly haven't worked together before we felt we keep that one more in-house. So that was the first one. And they got the opportunity to share their ideas and we actually shifted the thing. I think I made the mistake when I presented originally in the Unity Pavilion of talking about people stealing ideas from each other. It was meant as a little bit of a joke but it was pointed out maybe borrowing would be a slightly better term. So the architects have been borrowing ideas from that very first weave and then two weeks ago everybody here from all the groups that Mona was highlighting are here today. And so that was the first opportunity to actually be taking feedback from experts from the wider community in the different ways that we saw that through the focus group or through the random selection. And the idea was that that session the architects were focusing in their presentations on the things that they borrowed from each other. So the hope is today throughout the course of the day through these presentations in this last major weave the architects will be presenting back to all of you again more ideas that they may have borrowed from each other but also the ways in which they've integrated the feedback that you all gave in that weekend two weeks ago. So this is this is the sort of build up sort of reaching a sort of crescendo and then probably in the next couple of weeks there will be an exhibition which we'll have to organize that and figure out how we do that with the architects that we can actually in a much more calmer environment just be walking around interacting and so forth but this is the kind of the end of that sort of official series of dream weaving. So with that yes we also sorry mentioned the model just something for people to refer to this of course the galaxy model which has just been remade apparently because I think the original is in an exhibition in New York is that correct? At MoMA in New York and we're just we're working on this this is a work in progress because we're hoping that also in time for the exhibition the architects if they choose to can also be adding the proposals to this model so this is very much a work in progress but if you look at it today it will pretty much show what the existing situation is on the ground obviously the trees are not literally where they are on the model okay so with that we'll kick start with the first presentation which I think is Radhika and Shivangi No it's not Not quite yet Thank you David so just sharing of a little bit more key information for today's session before we jump into the presentations so last weekend really the focus was for all of you randomly selected focus group technical to give actually your feedback on the designs that have come up and the focus of today's session is going to be both in the presentations and in the Q&A on really how has this feedback been incorporated how have the designs evolved since last two weeks with your feedback that is what really distinguishes this weekend's session from the last time and so the focus of today will really be just on the presentations and then tomorrow we'll be having a session with the participants really to actually go into the evaluation of this process of the outputs of all of this aspect so in the Q&A we will really be inviting questions really on how has the feedback been incorporated how have the designs evolved from last time and since all of you participants who are here and giving your feedback all of you are welcome invited to participate in this Q&A this time last time it was for the architects to give their feedback and this time it's really for all of you to be able to engage on how this feedback was incorporated and how the designs have evolved and as facilitators we want to ensure that all of you who are here whether randomly selected with the experts with the architects all of you really have the space and the chance to ask these questions so when we'll be taking names for the Q&A we'll just take three names at a time and then if facilitators were noticing oh only the architects or the experts are feeling comfortable asking questions please note that we will really invite some of the participants who are not maybe as comfortable speaking to ask their questions so please don't be offended or confused if at some point we're just asking for questions from other members of the audience even if you might have your hand up so I hope that's clear so as I mentioned tomorrow will be the day that the participants will really be engaging in the evaluation both of the outputs and of the process but we did want to give you the format for the evaluation those participants today just so that you have a sense of what it's going to be and you can maybe take notes during today on these key points so you have all the forms with you we want to ask you please don't fill in those forms today because we really want you to hear all of the presentations that will happen all the way till 6pm we'll have dedicated time tomorrow to fill them in but feel free to refer to them to take notes so that you can really follow in a conscious or with this point of awareness and just to say today is a packed day in terms of presentations Q&A we have tight timings tomorrow we will have an open space and it might have been elements that are across more than one design that you think the best captured these specific headings which are drawn from the brief that was given to the architect so we're really integrating what was initially the brief given to them and what is being evaluated tomorrow so with that I'm just quietly going to read through these headings and we can go into any more questions that you have on these tomorrow so the first will be grounding the vision synthesizing and grounding the principles of the master plan the essence of the 1968 vision model the galaxy the human experience creating spaces for meaningful nourishing human experiences social, cultural and spiritual the diversity of experiences offering a diversity of experiences yet retaining continuity for example in the different zones and parks times of day, times of year and for visual interest then looking at the dimensions and proportions so creative solutions for the challenges of width and scale on and along the crown mobility, connections and permeability solutions for the mobility challenges of Orville to enable sustainable and conscious movement bio-climatic principles and urban form designing with the sun, wind, topography water flow, flora and fauna of the region experiencing water so a consideration of the flows of water as a solution for Orville's water security as well as a spatial and experiential element the city of nature so the integration of built spaces solids and voids with natural ecosystems density and phasing possible solutions for phasing implementation in response to gradual changes of densities enriching existing developments enhancing the function, quality or experience of our existing buildings, spaces and infrastructure designing for change so spaces with adaptable capacities for future changes and finally the essence of Orville in the designs, the expression of the poetry so the ideals and the experimental nature of Orville of this unique township and community so with that we can maybe take just a moment of silence and the first presenters can come and set themselves up with their mics meanwhile and then we'll begin one thing I forgot to say and this is for the architects presenting today so we are going to be ringing a bell at 20 minutes and we're going to be ringing a last bell at 30 minutes so mostly we've asked you to prepare for those of you at individual presentations to prepare it within 20 minutes some of you said you need a little bit more time so we will be ringing at 20 that's a good time to start wrapping up but we're giving just a little bit of comfortable time so you really have the time to wrap up today so you'll hear a bell at 20 and at 30 we really need to switch over bell at 20 and then last final bell at 30 is it working now? so good morning everyone yeah maybe that will be helpful oh okay that's what he said but at least you have the red dot first one good morning everyone I'm Shivangi my name is Radhika and we are presenting here the last weave of the crown and we would just like to take a moment to thank everybody who was involved in the process directly and indirectly and all the interactions that we've had has been very touching and inspiring and even like two weeks before the feedback that we've received even if they've not come out but it's still there so yeah thank you and in some ways it did inspire us and gave us a direction to move forward which probably we didn't know would be the direction after so yeah the feedbacks and already gave us the direction on where we are today so we mean this is a recap so we just began with looking back at the inspiration given by the mother and her sketch and how the different directions give different meanings so since it's a recap I won't go into the details of it next again this is a recap so while looking at the inspirations from the mother we also both of us being Vasu Shastra students we also thought that it would be interesting to see how the galaxy model or the horrible plan in general and the directional meanings and what could be the parallels between what symbolism mother gave and this so next Sophie yeah so to take it further this is I mean the previous slide is where we left it last time so take it further we brought in the concept of Pada Vinayasa which is a 9 by 9 grid module as per the Vasu Shastra text and we saw how the different energy lines which would be the grid lines the diagonals and the vital points which is the Marmastana and Brahmastana which we would explain in a bit would start giving us clues on how to begin working on this model before we go into those details I would like to give a disclaimer for now the kind of the enclosure and the space that we have defined for doing this exercise is what was given into the brief for this particular exercise that is for designing the crown so the enclosure or what we call the Vasu that we have defined is really the 100 meters on the outside of the crown is the boundary that we have defined to actually begin with this look at the larger contour we cannot directly apply this grid to a larger context because the grid has to be redone even if there will be a relation of macro and micro but yeah so the first grid that you saw that was divided in 9 squares so these intersections, these becomes the Marmastanas and then the center is the Brahmastana like also the last presentation we spoke about the banyan being the center and holding the very potent energy and what we found also interesting was after all this process it was kind of overlapping with Ganesh and Neha's geometry and the DNA study so we also tried to work around that yeah and these Marmastana points are actually the main intersection points and these are the points that we would I mean normally advise for them to be kept more open and since they are the energy centric points similar to how the Brahmastana is and the idea to do this is also to see how the energy is spread and how we can start looking at the centric points and where the energy is spreading and where it is getting concentrated yeah so then like we already mentioned last time that we would be focusing on the industrial zone so over this exercise we tried to strengthen the industrial zone which is the north of our plan by making this the driver for the development since it's the industrial zone so we really thought that while moving towards the self-supporting community industrial zone could become the driver which allows us to do this development and also the concept which we mentioned also last time about how we can make the zone the industrial zone in itself integral by also having some kind of merging from the adjacent zones so our exercise was to really look at the strengthening of the industrial zones with these factors also starts forming around that enclosure and then we start having the Marmastanas and the Brahmastana of that enclosure and then how this part relates to the whole maybe in future how that relates to the whole city that would be very interesting next so what we also strongly looked into was there is this so we are all kind of manifestation of the one the absolute and we all represent something and constantly we are trying to find the balance which we inherently in the memory it is there and but throughout the life we are kind of constantly trying to seek that initial balance so there is this movement of the individual journey which is kind of anti-clockwise which is going inward and then so we try to connect the Marmastanas of the part the whole to the symbol of the inner reflection Matrimandir so that is the anti-clockwise movement and then but we are also in awe for our collective process coming together and that is really like radiating clockwise movement so we took the amphitheater as our collective symbol and then joining them to the Marmastanas and other points in the energy grid and really coming up with some energy points which we can look into strengthening further and also we can start kind of also defining a little bit between the personal and the collective since when both comes together and the path which we take for the personal and collective together would be what would really cohere and create this harmony that is there and just to note that the movement that we are talking about the anti-clockwise and clockwise is really when we are at the center so while we are talking about the personal we are at the center of the Matrimandir because most of us connect to that place being where our personal journey could be reflected and the collective is at the Matrimandir so at some point it would be we have not done that here at some point it would be also interesting to just see the relation and how we can re-look at these three centers that we have now created Banyan is the Brahmastana, the physical center and the two other centers being the center of the collective and the center of the personal so this is again a recap of the previous one so this is where we start coming back to the idea of the industrial zone and strengthening the industrial zone where we spoke about how the inner part of the industrial zone could be more of the quieter activities and the interactions or the city interactions the artistic layers the co-working spaces could take really the center of the I mean towards the center of the city and towards the outside could be the interactions with the outside world so that would mean the manufacturing units, the production and those kind of activities that can be done outside so I just like to mention from the previous slide also the movement it was also very much inspired by Nicole's presentation of inward looking and outward looking both of them kind of coming together in different zones and different activities that we do in Oregon just wanted to also mention so before we move further this is a good recap to give while working on this exercise we really took this as a typical section where we tried to look at some of the infrastructure could be decentralized for example the water switch and for the other infrastructure we could look at something like the trench track system so what we really thought was one side of the road could be the trench track system a service road next to it and the right now this section depicts one of the areas where the current HD line is marked so we thought some similar place the trench track system could come and the crown center is here so each time this would little bit differ and this whole space we could start defining differently for different areas so that way we have a little flexibility on how we are looking at the section of the crown yet we give the space for the service and the infrastructure so with all this we tried to bring them together into and also the previous idea of us wanting to have different activities on the crown and then merging with the adjacent zones so we really tried to bring them to a plan which is of course just the so to begin with I mean on this side we have the first line of forest building which also is a part of the Akali forest and so we thought that so we thought that this is the place where we could have the merging of the international zone coming in so this could be the place where we could have different food experiences and this was also inspired by Raj's presentation where he really talks about the food experience being an important aspect of the community and of this development so we really thought that different kind of international food experiences could be here so initially we started to put those experiences on to this line of forest that's when we realized that this line of forest really is entirely on a canyon and is also a parambok land so we also thought that it would be good to give something adjacent but an alternative place to give the idea of this community food experience and how we name it is like community food court so not really like a kitchen but because we are talking about diverse experiences and a diversity so something like a food court would be an interesting thing to look at then we thought that while this is happening here there could also be again I mean for sure there's lot of things needs to be looked at different phasing and how what is required now and what is required eventually but what we thought was something concentrated here can eventually start also spilling over to the crown itself because when we saw in the previous typical section we really have this space within the crown between the crown center and the structure where we could redefine each time what we want to do so we thought that this could start becoming something like a each street which could become more active in the evenings while this area of the food court is a little bit more calm because it's more close to the forest and it starts becoming more calm so it could start becoming like a each street here and then as we move forward we thought that one of the line of forces probably somewhere here would be an interesting place to start doing the the place where the construction activities like the storerooms for construction some kind of manufacturing that could start happening and why we are also putting most of the activities to this side of the line of forces because this side is where the lowest level of the line of force is if you could see in the model this is where the lowest level of the line of forces so we thought that this side could start becoming and it could even be the line of forces could even also be done in phases in such a way that we do the smaller part in some time and start testing it out and then eventually we do the rest then then we move forward then we thought that somewhere towards the center of this industrial zone we need to have some places for things like the postal service common delivery points delivery services that could be there and then then more towards again more towards the center we I leave this for now because this again is a very is a private land so I thought it would be more nicer to define this area where we know the trees and we have the marking of the trees so here we define the like a cluster of services which is more like the services for the people working in the industrial zone so things like day laundry some kind of tea stall some kind of lounges those kind of activities we thought could start coming here and a cluster like this in future could start repeating at different places so one could be somewhere here and so that it can have different experiences though the activities are the same but it could start having different experiences eventually then though in the next slide we will talk about it a little bit more but things like what master plan document mentions about the activities on the crown for the industrial zone things like hostels and all can start already be happening in these areas because we'll see that would also add to the night presence in the area then we thought that some activities like the stargazing could happen on to a line of force like this because it really is the line of force very close to the crown at the highest levels if you see the this particular one it's close to the crown and it's quite high next to the crown and then yeah and then as we move more towards the cultural zone we have something like a center for arts and crafts training so we really thought that this could be more like the arts and crafts which requires discipline which really needs a bigger center to be there and not just like not just a daily vocational training or something but becomes more like a center for the art and training that's there and the current place where youth center is can also start becoming a youth plaza which very well reflects the idea of the cultural zone and mixing of the industrial zone which could have markets and vocational trainings a little bit spill over of the crafts and arts center so yeah this is how we started placing the activities on to the crown in the industrial zone to add something to the grid just if we look at the Marma Sthanas around these areas what we would propose is to have more open spaces and not really built spaces yeah and also from the previous diagram if you see this could be more like because as per our way of working our the way we read the energy lines this could really become the personal spaces within the industrial zone so Dorley I think brought this up which was very interesting that within the crown we need also some collective spaces and also some personal spaces so that gives us some time to reflect and be able to have that space so these kind of spaces as was also mentioned in the in the previous slide these were the Marma Sthanas that were connecting to the to the center to the Matri Mandir so these could start becoming those personal spaces into the industrial zone next to the crown so this is just a diagram of how we see that some of these activities could have the night presence one thing in the activity diagram that I didn't mention was a possibility of looking at having some kind of night camps so that could be something like a Matri Mandir model where there are just very simple little area so that will give a night presence there but also a very good experience for the for the kids or the youth in Auroville to start the presence here was some of the each street so that could have a night presence it could have some relation to also the nearby areas and the stargazing and hostile areas having a presence and the youths youth plazas and some of these activities like we said as and when required could also repeat along the crown so that the presence is there all through so please bear with us for the next few slides it's a bit skewed sketch but basically this is the town hall area, and the path that goes Ilangarkai school and that's the youth centre crown stretch what's developed next and then yeah so so every time we were thinking at the beginning of the exercise that there's a crown and how are we going to have this experience of crown going through different places and different zone next and one of the main thing when we looked at industrial zone was also this lines of forces which are going to which are planned to be quite tall towards the centre so we were constantly thinking that these proportions are a bit disturbing and then I think after the last feedback session Peter when he came to our table like somebody asked what's your next step and we were really enquiring this like okay what does this mean like this kind of high thing going up and then Peter said that you will actually not see it and then like two days later it just kept coming like what did he mean you will not see it and then next slide please and then yeah then actually we started realising that crown is not just the ground but it's also the canopy that's planned on top and one of the one of the things that also came back was Mari's sketches of the reality how the buildings are actually planned so far but if they are close together and if we have this canopy we are we almost have like a protection kind of thing from top and then there are these cutouts which when we are passing through the crown you see and then you see the sky up and then you see some of these elements going up like that so and then next and then it also took back to this idea of the changing phenomenology of the crown and we have actually in Vastu Shastras the proportions and the proportions have different names so one is to one and so on and the highest one is kind of one is to two which is adhbutam and adhbutam means something that is a wonderment so and it's not just architecture but there is Indian aesthetic principles which are applied throughout different Indian art forms and there are these Navarasas Nine Rasas which actually take you through different emotions and so we really felt like if we start looking more into the qualities that the galaxy and the crown wants to manifest it can start bringing out these different qualities and evoke different emotions as we go through the crown yeah so I mean this is again a recap from our previous presentation where we were trying to look at the different spaces into the crown and how those could be dynamic with the different shadows being forming and how it could adapt according to the different times of the day and different times of the year and how we could get some gateways like the green gateways and all formed so that we can mark a little bit transition between the zones between the park and the zone or any other places that we require next slide so what we really propose is there is a stretch of crown already existing in the industrial zone so we all together look at it how we can live it how we can kind of start defining it already and bring some activities so we can test it out what could be done so this is really just a diagram of what could be done at the crown right now and also a little section on top of it that while we do this we could also start imagining the idea of galaxy plant coming on top of it how would that form spaces so that as a community together we can already start having some of these activities coming there and yeah before we close we just want to have this slide which we already showed last time where we are really talking about what was existing around here what is there right now and what is yet to come so kind of the layers of different the Kalapurusha layers so we have the the purple the bigger ones as the archaeological sites one of them being the Kali temple in the center is the timeless banyan and this is what was there and then the existing scenario and then what is going to become like our galaxy model our aspirations that are going to come and there is an interesting picture of Kali temple which I didn't show last time this is a little part of the tree which probably was cut while doing the whatever while making the place or doing this and how we really read it is that there is this little turmeric being put and they kind of redo this every day so it's kind of healing the tree even after that little part of it is being cut so we really propose that while we say the industrial zone is the driver and it can become it can help us develop we do this development very consciously I also want to bring back what was presented into the vastu presentation by Mona and Sashima about following some rituals while we cut trees while we do any kind of any kind of movement towards this development we really look back at some of those rituals that we were able to do it consciously thank you Radhika and Shivangi just to mention that we will have blocks of presentations so now we've had Radhika and Shivangi and we'll hear from Manu and Tanya and we'll have the Q&A after that and then after the tea break we'll hear Sonali Marie, Ganesha and Neha and have again a collected Q&A after that so just hold on to your questions for now and we will go right into the next presentation with Manu and Tanya yeah so we were also very grateful for all the feedback it was amazing to hear so much and next slide so we have summarized it and said together and there was a lot of overlap in feedback so we made these points so one was good to have the details of a few core concepts then weaving of schools a safe compass including all Auroville schools then a dream plaza free food 24-7 a free landing place then a food forest with water catchment, kunds and columns then four city sections with a charter of the dream the lightness of the buildings wooden regenerative aspects develop social aspects then safety of children to be emphasized further and suggestion at zero waste bring more details to the current reality so now we are jumping straight into the details I hope you remember our last presentation just to give you a brief outline of the core concepts we already presented actually when we started the image of the crowd we started separately I hope you remember we had two different streams too far away from your mouth sorry this is not happy with me this is not getting easy but it's on but I don't get any sleep why don't you speak so so when Tanya started she started with the crown image and when I started I started with the images of circular cities from ancient history to now and somehow our designs seem to were converging in terms of the interpretation of these two images so at one point we said we'll start working together and when we started working together we said that we need to have a new starting point so we came up with a new paradigm which somehow brings our concepts together and that's the paradigm of health and the health good health requires some very big factors good assimilation good elimination and good sleep so we said that if we had to look at the health of our city what is it what are the factors that we need to assimilate especially in the design of the city and it's quite clear from our brief as well that the charter, the dream, the vision model these are the three major aspects and we try to weave together these aspects in the previous presentation not going to get into details elimination we said that certain phenomena that exist sadness that is evidenced by the increased rate of suicides danger to children on the street which I witness every day with my child water runoff which is very well established sweat means very uncomfortable conditions in the summer unemployment a lot of people feeling stress because of that food insecurity not everyone has guaranteed meals unfortunately every day here in the city which is still a travesty of the dream and twists in infrastructure which actually cause a lot of inefficiency in all the systems the technical systems and the last one waste was introduced by the feedback which came from the last session so zero waste so all of this around the concept of zero and rest of course what should I say that's what we do best so we're not going to get into rest so let's move on next so this is the the plan we came up with the last time we dreamt up a whole lot of programmatic functions for the crown because we felt as previous dream weaving exercises also felt and analysis by architects like Swasini and all felt that there's not enough at the massing of the crown so we said we'll come up with a lot of new buildings and institutions and all that so that is done as part of the feedback we were told that we should focus on certain core concepts one of the core concepts was the dream plaza that we should have one place in Auroville everyone can go to any time of day or night it's active and it's buzzing so that's around the solar kitchen we'll get into details later we said we'll look at the sensitive zones the eco sensitive zones Dalkali, Aurodam and the bliss forest and we'll try to detail it out as much as possible next and then one of the big feedbacks that came was to integrate the schools of Auroville in one campus so Tanya so what you see in yellow is what we consider this campus area it has all the existing schools and it's also the area where the future schools develop it also includes here the Mahalakshmi park which we consider would be the safe path for the kids to travel basically we have given it some highlights which I will present now and we have two paths here one crossing over the crown then going to Deir Shakthi over the Gaia field another one following the crown and then going in between the schools and going this way to Deir Shakthi so next yeah so we have taken the existing situation with its road in future it can be elaborated and we have really detailed now some of the improvements next so the first one I hope you saw the blobs in the last one no no it's okay it's close to Neem Tree because that is the closest to the kindergarten and pre-crash and we sort of giving it here a little sand pit a nice sand pit with water elements and buckets and an edible garden because that's the way for the small kids also to go to their kindergarten and pre-crashes next and then close to the Deepanam buildings close to that side there's another little path and we sort of putting there one of our Mandapams we've used last time Mandapams a flexible use building a bit like Sao Choo with public toilets and a storeroom attached and in this case little study tables for maybe like up to 10-12 people that are little semi-private around so we have placed one of them close to a Deepanam school that can be used by the schools for study circles but of course for any other purpose we have made this one round and pale orange because it's in the cultural zone and we have picked up Mother's idea of giving it round shape and pale orange next so the next one now along the Mahalakshmi path would be a very quiet area a sensory footpath that is best to explore even closed ice so I'm just giving a couple of ideas like a log to walk upon then this is a rope and you have big stones then you come to the actual footpaths here which is boxes filled with different material like leaves, pine tree needles twigs, sand, soil all kinds of things to be explored next then here along the same path could be something like a science and musical exploration for kids so just ideas this is a vortex cycle then we have Newton's pendulum this is music tubes some elements like that where kids can actually explore something and which is not just a playground ok so this is one of we are already close to the crown here at the section not far from the section that is now blocked because it's not our land and we had in our last presentation Kunz to irrigate irrigate subsurface and to have food forest close to the Kunz and Manu will go into the details later this one is one especially for children so we have made it into a galaxy shape and one special feature it's very shallow the other ones are much deeper so that it's really safe for children what is special is the stone in the middle it's one of the designs of Hugo Küchelhaus who designed a stone that you can actually roll because it's suspended on water it cannot roll off of course but it's very interesting that such a big stone can be easily rolled and another feature would be that it has fountains but the fountains will only work when there's a lot of wind so the kids will have to put the windmill and have only sometimes when the fountains go on ok next so this is the actual crossing over the crown so we are suggesting a net kind of structure that crosses the entire crown that you can climb on this side here you have then some relaxation on the top and a nice view and on the other side you can either slide down on the net or you can walk down climb down anything and the photos are just to show you that this is actually possible to make it safe it's not something completely out of the box ok next so now from here we have two ways one is the way going to the Aschakti through the Gaia field and the other one will go towards La school and the other schools and we have placed a playground there behind Kreeper and we are close to the multi-purpose stadium that might be in future used for like big gatherings so it could be good to have a playground there for the kids yeah just some features the highlight here would be this comes from Japan it's again nets like several floors and you have these blocks swinging blocks that are hanging there and and yeah I'm happy to explain in detail if somebody is interested this is it's tilted to one side I know it myself you can either spin it by hand or run on it and it spins sit on it and this is self speaking I think ok next ok then the next thing if you wouldn't have gone towards the Gaia field but you would have taken the road towards last school and future school we have planned one a construction playground called in German a Bauschpielplatz we have many of those in Germany it has to be supervised the kids will get building material nails hammers and on the supervision they will be even sewing so this is for us to make our future builders of the city where they can explore their skills and may come up with designs so we have allocated that here close to the schools where the older kids are ok next then we have we have given it a little bit of a new path which is now already in use but not officially now all the three schools have different entrances and they are really separate so we got a lot of feedback to bring the schools closer together so the path would then actually weave through the schools and you would officially take that path yeah and then we have placed we want to play the most needed right now would be a basketball court and maybe volleyball court there might be there's space for smaller ones that could be more quiet in between and this could be a bigger area because it's nice to group some together then it's a bigger play area for these things ok so next yeah yeah but this is the canopy walk ok yeah so we have at the youth centre bliss forest we feel that there could be a canopy walk which is directed from the crown but going through the higher trees the taller trees and of course more activities like the skate park and adventure activities next ok so now we come already to something else we have detailed areas of the crown starting from human scape and going all the way asola kitchen and beyond so we went more into details because we got a lot of feedback that we should rather crown experience so the first thing we wanted to suggest is in order for us to slowly make the transition to having the crown unmotorized we are suggesting to get a couple of e-shuttles and have them run on the crown to have e-cycle spots along the radials here you see the vikas radial this is just one example but on all the radials there would be e-cycles and then the first step would be to park we are just giving some ideas what could happen at a bus stop while people are waiting so this of course needs a special atmosphere it's a singing stone we are going to play with a little bit wet hands this would be a safe way for kids to have the monkey bar without being able to climb on and fall down then on the other side would be of course again a bus stop but we would like to design them in a very playful way so these are ventures rising up giving a backrest kind of that also designs the space here a little bit and on this side there is this light going down for kids then we have a plant a light structure building here that can be used by anybody to serve something like juices or snacks or anything and one side develop with fixed tables but the other side again like for more resting area benches here a water body and then we have a highlight here kind of we want to highlight the line of light that is crossing here so one suggestion would be to put a mother symbol as a glass kind of structure that throws a colored shadow on the ground but while discussing it yesterday we felt it was maybe a bit squashed here it should maybe have another space so that's why I didn't take this skateboarder out because I didn't want to do that that we had in mind to develop some stretch here for skateboarding like one part of it because this is a higher area giving already a back to the road and then to develop this area for skateboarding or something but that's only an idea then this is a roof area that will be accessible with a skywalk which we didn't put here the view you see in a later slide then and then the fireplace so we liked also this idea of fireplaces so we have placed one fireplace here that is designed in a way that you can again easily join all these places we designed for people to join any time of the day where you feel always comfortable to just sit and meet people or not meet people or just sit and observe so this fireplace would be a place that you can go anytime in the night and join ok next slide in order to get people accustomed to changing their behaviors slowing down on the street we felt that we could use plants on the road and the planters could be on wheels hidden in the design of the planter those wheels could be locked perhaps with a simple number lock system so once you place the planters in a particular configuration you can't simply move them until you unlock it and then you can move it in other configurations as you want to further reduce the speed of the traffic we felt that sadness and depression is one major aspect of the city and so one way to address it is with bringing in chance encounters so all these places that we talked about means people just hanging around and bumping into people as they walk so this would be a big contributor next ok this is now the next stretch here we had the bus stop in front of opposite Kalpana this is the radial so now we are suggesting for kids to go along that path to put some interesting elements to balance again a footpath this time not sensory but was it the green oh my god ok alright so then to have this path again designed a little bit interesting for kids then the library area to give this a complete new use we have a big hatch which is protecting it but we could design it in a way that all the activities are serving the library function so we are suggesting here benches comfortable benches on the library site this with magazines and books that you when you pass by you might pick up one and rest here a bit and read something this is a pond kind of like in Verity where you hang your feet inside and you sit on the edge on this side is again a bench that giving the back to the road to create a safe little silent plaza inside and this would be a chest human sized chest and then for the library if you want to form study groups we have given another mandapam this time in the shape of hexagon because it's the residential area with another set of tables all that you could use even dream weaving could happen in such a place okay next coming to the dream plaza this is where we left last time these are very preliminary sketches next we detailed it out a little bit this time incorporating the line of force that is coming close to solar kitchen as you can see there is an inner ring of buildings you have an inner ring of buildings that are like that which are completely following mother's principle of no money so none of these buildings would charge money for accessing it the library already doesn't the lounge of Auroville where people can hang out 24 7 will not above the lounge we propose an indoor games area that too and then we propose a new solar kitchen when the population increases the current one would be saturated already it's almost saturated now the new one will operate on the principle of simple meals like one pot meals and those one pot meals will be free and it will be served 24 7 so anytime people go there they would be they would be given food and this is another special place called the free landing zone so anybody who comes to Auroville will have a roof on their head it's a guaranteed thing not forever but for the time that it takes for them to find a place to stay so it's not like you have to stay in Pondi and then explore Auroville so Dharamshala these are concepts very much ingrained in Indian culture in Gurudwara's all over India and these are co-working spaces anybody who is wanting to start an enterprise in Auroville will have a desk and internet connection and they will be able to work without having to pay rent so when we propose things like this it sounds utopian because it seems like there's no economic sustainability thought about how will these facilities function in terms of the long run even if they were built with grants or donations how will they run on a day to day basis that's where the outer ring comes now the outer ring is all about commerce it's all about what we do best there's a lot of examples bread and chocolate, tanto there's a lot of enterprises that are outside in Kuala Palem but why should they function in Kuala Palem Aurovillians have to go all the way there why can't they be brought to the center and so the 33% that these units would give to Auroville would actually go there to the inner ring the inner ring would be supported by the outer ring and they both have to coexist that's the idea of the city and then of course there are other things like the handicraft bazaar we'll talk about it later next so zero runoff, this is something that we talked about the last time it's more a recap next buildings that would integrate water systems like wastewater and rainwater next and the same this is at Aurodam and how do we do this in Aurodam, I'm not going to get into details we don't have time, next this is a section of Aurodam how it will be we're talking of lightweight buildings made mostly in wood regenerative materials next to integrate boardwalks and canopy walks on the ground to stay as much off the ground as possible not put concrete into the ground next integrating windmills and coons so that we have a constant flow of water from the lower levels of the ground to the upper levels to the upper coons and that water can flow by gravity subsurface to irrigate the whole inner city area the inner city area can then be water rich without drip spring class and you can continue to grow things grow food next this is multiple types of coons or columns with windmills attached and food for us around it next integrating all the layers the water ground roof and sky layer next regenerative design principles now that's an 18 story building made entirely in wood and this is a new technology called compressed laminated timber it's I guess 12 years old or something and this is something eminently usable for the eco sensitive zones at least the lines of force next darkali can this be a place of peace concord and harmony where our fighting instincts have been transformed this is mother's dream can we do this with flowers this is our question next so the lines of force can it be an impression of mother's flowers next next you see how the flowers are the flowers are actually camouflaging the tree houses and the trees from above so that you can actually see only flowers in the lines of force these are very interesting mechanisms these are large nets of different colors nylon nets reinforced by steel next that's how it works so you have big flower it's tensile net and that collects water into a 100 litre water tank actually it's pure drinking water and I see this every day where I live at international house every day there's rain and in the morning at 5 you wake up you see with the condensation so this is very real with the high humidity that we have and all the drinking water for the lines of force on the wooden buildings could be generated with flowers next unemployment now we feel that this is a very serious topic and this is not only true for Auroville but also for the village and how can we encourage bazaars where village people as well as Aurovillians can put up their craft and at solar kitchen plaza we feel that there could be a handicraft bazaar where people like next this lady Lakshmi who actually sells these lamps, shades at visitor center parking she sells these for 125 rupees each next and the boutique the same pieces are sold for 735 rupees so you see it's a 600 person increase in price and poor Aurovillians can't afford those prices so it would be a win-win situation for Aurovillians if those crafts people from the village who do cottage crafts can be brought to the center of Auroville so we can afford our own creations it's a win-win for both next the idea of craft weaving with AV artisan elements like with windmills it could be musical, windmills are noisy so if we can convert the movement of the shaft next I'll show you the system there using these sound boxes if you attach a sound box at the shaft and we convert the movement into a crank which loads the spring and that generates music there we can eliminate that problem of the windmill we can integrate wooden tree houses or bamboo tree houses along with it and food forest and the Coulomb so the water from the Coulomb comes up to the water tank above the building at the crown and overflows into a waterfall where people can you know, cool themselves in the summer and that waterfall flows into a a line of water, a water channel which we propose to run in eight sections along the crown, it's called the Lakshman Rekha it's a physical barrier that vehicles cannot cross so the inner city is completely kept motor free the water channel is the physical barrier it also has other purposes I'll come to that later so that's the we have all this adventure stuff going on and all this movement and people get sick of it at times so you need points of retreat from the activity so we feel the lines of light the lines of light coming from Matrimandir could offer clues so we have these lines where we create pathways and we create these retreat pod nests so that's can you these are very mildly gyrating platforms where you can sit and it slightly sways in the wind yeah, that's how it works it's a ball and socket joint here and the ball and socket joint there so they neutralize the movement to create a slightly gyrating platform where only one person can sit in the nest and this nest is facing Matrimandir lake and it's at a height you climb with the ladder and you can sit there for as long as you want retreating from the noise of the crown and it could be a dream weaving or craft weaving exercise between various horrible units this is the idea of solar kitchen light with free food, one pot meals simple Southwick food next so yes there's a lot there we'll just go to the sections next so that's the section between Kalpana and the multipurpose hall that's Kalpana and that's the future multipurpose hall which I think Gundolf has proposed and at the middle of the crown we say that we have a high line that connects the buildings so this high line would help to integrate the roofs which is one of the concepts of Roje to integrate all the roofs so that's the section between the Auroville lounge and the food court so that's the Auroville lounge upstairs is indoor games and then you have a bio pool it's a natural pool which does not use chlorine or ozone or anything it's just root zone filtration and then you have the crown and then you have a food court where all the Auroville restaurants on the other side Banto and bread and chocolate can all serve into one dining area which has also got a playground integrated next so that's the bio pool where you have water and where you have the filtration the reed bed and the system is that all this water has to go through the reed bed two times a day that's the principle very simple if you design that this water will be clean and it's there are hundreds of such pools all over the world next that's the section between the Dharamshala and the handicraft bazaar so you have that's the Dharamshala area the Mandapa and you go down that's the restaurant and that's the place where you have the handicrafts next a section between the co-working other co-working spaces on one side it's offices which are charged on the other side it's free co-working for startups next so that's the section between the co-working and the slow dining spaces so that's co-working areas which are free and this is slow dining which is probably expensive next so that's the section between the Dharamshala again and the art center so the art center is exhibitions below like in citadine and upstairs is art studios which are also shareable so the art pieces from the studios go straight down next that's the section through the slow dining and the co-working again you see the bio pool there as well we're trying to see that these pools are available and accessible in as many plazas as possible on the crown because it's a perfect way to cool off in the summer next so the water channel that we saw earlier is a way to keep the vehicles off the inner city next so just a reminder that tomorrow we will have time to go into more details we have just under 10 minutes left for questions so if we could just wrap it up in really 30 seconds that would be great so the other purpose of the Lakshman Rekha was to irrigate under the surface all the vegetation on the crowns all the crown would be irrigated by the lake next so for the infrastructure we propose a combination of decentralized this is after the Javeri Associates meeting with Doshiji's office we feel a combination of a central infrastructure corridor which has electrical and OFC decentralized 8 loops which has sewage, stormwater biogas as well biogas plants can be installed in each zone this might work but this still means that the central infrastructure corridor has to be very efficient and straight next we don't want situations like this this is not India, this is Paris and this is happening everywhere in the world and so we want certain regimen which is followed at least in the central area next next first steps next, what can we do? next so can we animate the street life with street furniture there is already an offer from Islam that he could donate the wood for it so can we make furniture at specific areas next can we make transit mandapumps which are easy to move and erect which are good for urbanism next can we do happy streets like all over India cities are going for these certain timings of Sundays are kept reserved for people to go and so can we do the full stretch of the built crown from Mahalakshmi Mahalakshmi home to solar kitchen on Sundays for people to be free to walk and do their thing next thank you thank you to both of you and I would like to invite Radhika and Shivangi maybe the four of you can sit just here and we are going to be inviting questions from all of the participants and just a reminder really we are inviting questions on how the feedback that was given last session has been incorporated in these designs how they have evolved as a result of this feedback so this is really your opportunity as participants in this process to understand how your feedback was taken into account and integrated so any of the participants will start with three questions from anyone amongst the participants on these two presentations and I invite you to share your name and also for which architect team your question is Hi, my name is Nicole so I've been very touched by the fact that really an effort has been made to integrate the social aspect especially in the last presentation to really integrate that aspect and the problems that we have today and that cities all over the world do face and to try and bring answers to that one thing that I'm kind of wondering about is you know what I see is this effort that the inner part of the crown would be kept as a change of money part but then the outer part of the crown would be open to the other aspect which is really the commercial aspect in an effort to be able to support the non-commercial aspect now this is just my reaction to that that I feel this is too close together in the sense that there was a few years ago a very good paper written by Min on the perception of poverty and I think it's something that would be good to revisit in the sense that if things are put too close together people do get this impression that they're really missing out on something what we perhaps should try to aim for now I'm not saying I perfectly understand the step by step but then that has to be made conscious that what is our end purpose in terms of the type of society economy and exchange we want to have inside the city thank you thank you are there another one or two questions that we can harvest at this stage Mona and I want to request all the participating architects to please use this model that is there to indicate because I think for Rajiv and Jayadeep would be easy for them to visualize what we're talking about so it would have been just nice or of course like you used for the lines of force it's good to have that it's not perfect but at least we have an indicative model any last question or comments before we hand it over to the architects Lily I just wanted to say also in the last presentation looking at materials used for the construction that's really important to me and well I guess more of a comment than a question but very much in support of that and looking at what alternative and regenerative and zero carbon or minimum carbon or how we can reduce our carbon footprint in the materials that we use to construct and how that can be implemented and I'm very curious also to look at what you suggested about irrigation and how both if we build formability and movement and in the constructions that we make that we're still looking at rain percolation and irrigation and how that can be integrated so I'm very curious to see where that can go and I'm happy to see that you considered it thank you so we have just a couple minutes before tea break so I will hand it over to the four of you if there's any response you want to make to these comments anything at all just pass the mic well thank you thank you very much for the comments I totally resonate with you Nicole this is just a very like I would even call it a brainstorm it's not like a hundred percent thought out proposal you know most of this work we do in early morning hours and we are in this kind of thing so we actually of course there is this logic of bringing those aspects together but how do we do it we need a lot of inputs from people who have the experience and so this would need to be changed a lot in the future and I totally resonate with I feel totally lost sometimes in a lot of concrete when things can be a lot more regenerative in Auroville and things can relate to the land by growing our own building materials so like bamboo and wood we have lots of wood all our wood is going into constructions outside Auroville why should it be why can't we build more with wood in Auroville alright thank you so much to all four of you for the presentations for the work that's gone since the last session really appreciated we can give them all a round of applause I think thank you and with that we'll break for tea we'll have a 20 minute tea break and we will come back at 11 people if you could regain your seats and start making some silence we would like to start Sonali's presentation thank you very much yes so welcome back from the tea break we'll have three presentations in a block again and then a shared Q&A Q&A so we'll start with Sonali then we'll have Marie and then we'll hear from Ganesh and Neha and then we will have our Q&A before breaking for lunch ok so with that over to you Sonali is it on? ok so little intimidated to be the opening act in this session since I know what's coming next but I think I feel I have better clarity than when I started thanks to the dream weaving process and I'm hoping that I managed to bring it across today in this presentation so so last time I talked about the character of the crown as I understand it through Roger's sketches and how the buildings create the pattern of voids and the voids buildings actually give shade to the voids and the voids are not just actually needed for light and ventilation which is very much relevant to our climate but they actually create a unifying passing space so they are also meeting points and circulation points and also the mobility lane becomes more like a service corridor and it's like mother calls it it's a zone of transport so the combination of this mobility lane and these building character is for me the beginning of this exercise so this is in continuation with what I presented last time and this is to understand now how this concept relates to the context which is the land people and nature without compromising the vision which is the galaxy and altering the dream of the mother so if you see the dynamics of galaxy plan galaxy plan has lines of force in industrial and residential zone so that actually brings the character but in cultural and international zone if we have to retain the galaxy plan the zonal plan becomes more important because we don't have lines of force in these two zones and going to the cultural zone mother has talked about cultural zone as the place where children would be able to grow and develop integrally without losing contact with their souls and it's also the zone where beauty is needs to be represented in all forms of painting, sculpture, music, literature so this is actually the essence I'm bringing out not using the exact words and if you see the character on the crown it is something like that I have superimposed the crown street as we are designing right now which is here so this is an earlier sketch which was done by Roger where he is actually doing the sub-classification of the zone of different areas and he is talking about how the schools are progressing and on the crown there are services and the interesting part about this sketch is actually the vocational training center which is E is also continuation of the cultural zone so basically as I understand cultural zone cultural zone is actually unifying art and educational activities and this is a proposed plan of cultural zone and if you see here and I have superimposed this on the galaxy plan the voids start appearing in the same shape the greens so these actually are the correlation between the zonal plan and the connections which create between the buildings so what is cultural zone in today's context is actually just a half kilometer stretch there are two parks on two sides and right now we have Kripa, Kalabhumi and schools and Leelaloka so here I have superimposed the cultural zone concept plan on this satellite image and here you see the crown is crossing over at different points but the buildings are actually not necessarily laid along the crown they are sometimes inward looking and they very much represent this void or zonal concept and they create these different clusters so it's not like the urban design differs on both sides but the buildings on both the sides of the crown street it's going too fast so if you go a little zoomed in what we have is there are these big kaya trees here they are actually taller than probably 10, 12 meters and the land actually slopes towards Mahalakshmi park here it slopes towards Gaya field here on this side we have the industrial zone to cultural zone and these are the water shells so if we have to integrate this and retain this the patterns of the buildings the plan can become something like that and these are the building forms if you see the scale of these buildings and this is the scale of Kripa so it is possible to create big buildings with a lot of space in between the trees and retaining the language which Roje is talking about so here I have highlighted only the mobility lane the spaces in between can be water bodies they can even be visual water bodies integrated in architecture and even the greens and here actually the important point is the input for infrastructure will be as as the zones are crossing probably we will have to bring the building forms closer to the mobility lane because otherwise the scale when the buildings are crossing will grow enormous and we don't want to create pedestrian bridges so that the scale needs to be retained so probably the structural forms or structural supports will need to be closer to the mobility lane and actually this is if we forget about the mobility lane this becomes the right of way and you can see the right of way becomes the space between the buildings and we forget about the road is passing through and this was actually the program given by cultural zone group and they write it as a journey of joyful immersion in the mobility through spaces so this part can be later densified where Kalabhubi stretches and if you see the immediate cluster of development can be near Kripa and we can even if we do some buildings on both the sides actually it can create that cluster another input of this exercise would be that not just the building pallet in the crown needs to be same but the building pallet across the two buildings also need to be similar so that we actually relate to these clusters and also the inner facades need to speak to each other otherwise we don't actually read it as one cluster so going through the parks I thought of actually continuing this cultural zone exercise through the parks because parks if you see the crown is not broken in the parks crown is continuing and I see parks are actually the overlap between the two zones so a lot of functions actually which are common to the zones can come in the park and if you see the progression of parks through the city actually we come from the green belt which is the forest and the farms and then it starts opening out in the form of more greens and when it actually intersects the crown there is a zone of activities and then you go to the innermost meditative plaza which is Mathur Mandir so don't go by this picture this is just a concept to understand that crown is actually passing over and the green is flowing under so we are actually framing the green by doing crown over the park so this is something, this park between residential zone and cultural zone and so the location is somewhere here where also there is Mahalakshmi home for the elderly and we can create a deck where the green is passing under it's going backwards so this is actually a lot of this feedback came from the citizens input and people talked about creating morning life because we are talking only about night life so we will have a lot of morning life so I really like that point and we can have morning life here in this stretch where we can create terraces and if we have ramps for the elderly to go up we can have viewing decks and spaces like tai chi and yoga for them and also we can integrate children's park stores, plant stores, ice creams and pet stores a lot of people walk their dogs including me park and obviously bus stops because I think these parks need to be accessible to all the people for all the ages so in fact I think parks should have bus stops so that people can walk from one park and come out from the other park so the idea is actually that we get to experience the park without actually losing the essence of the park but creating the crown so this is not architectural design of it that these are the buildings and these are the green terraces the trees are retained and you can still walk through Mari has created these actually quite nice level surfaces where you can go inside and this is the ramp which goes from Mahalakshmi park so we can actually climb on the deck on the other side since the water infiltrates to Mahalakshmi park we can create water terraces for children to enjoy it can be something like that and the viewing decks so this actually becomes a lively zone when we come to the northern side which is actually the park between cultural zone and industrial zone this is just a concept to understand that the crown is passing over it's not like a heavy traffic road that we are crossing but I'll explain it next so here this is actually closer to youth center we can have a little stretch where we are crossing higher the space underneath is very much connected here again to retain the concept as the vocational training is part of the cultural zone and we can use these terraces as something like that so these are actually steps overlooking the side of the schools and the green parks and we can walk over and again don't go by selection of pictures but just to understand that we can have rooftop restaurants or coffee shops under and the steps actually are interactive spaces and again bus stops and eating out spaces and actually this part can have let's say nightlife so outdoor cinemas and this can be create exhibition spaces so it can be created without it can be just mounds which are created no need to have steps I think I have to go back and to come back to the plan so it can become something like that here I have shown only the mobility lane which is actually in the same nature of the other spaces on two sides and this can be water and you can go from future school or cross here with exhibition spaces and these are these outdoor cinema and the steps on the other side so this becomes the crown stretch of two parks and the cultural zone I mean this is not an architectural design I let architects to come and express their creativity I let you imagine what you can create in this so international zone I actually chose international zone and cultural zone because they are kind of in unison since international zone is also called the zone of international culture and it's actually where we represent the culture of the countries and she talks about soul of a nation so there is a difference in the soul and there is a difference in the culture so both of these need to be represented in this stretch so if you highlight the crown stretch in the original galaxy plan it's very difficult to read the crown street and it's kind of let's say defragmented so this was the international zone concept plan which was done by Roger later and this was done when Bharatnivas got built and then he placed Bharatnivas to be in the center of the international zone where the countries are laid around and also the Tibetan pavilion is in the same line and both these pavilions are actually in the direct axis of Madhura Mandir and then here you see the pattern of the crown is emerging with the crown street and the buildings are kind of laid around the street in similar manner and here you see actually the existing buildings so this is the super imposition and if you relate to the galaxy plan and the concept which is later and the parks so this park is actually very much the visitor center I mean the guiding of the visitor center to the inner city like line of Goodwill has represented ok so in order to relate to the context this is what we have right now if we actually superimpose the crown street on the existing land and there are two buildings Unity pavilion and Savitri Bhavan and language lab on the other side and Bharatnivas actually right now stands here and we need to connect this zone there are also two parks on two sides so it's a similar situation of cultural zone and you see now the pattern of the buildings is kind of similar it's defragmented but it's actually on both sides of the mobility zone and it's similar this land is more challenging for development because it has Porambuk land it has archaeological sector it has this water canal I mean the canyon which actually flows and also the soil has very little rate of Bharatnivas buildings which are partially underground get flooded because the water flows there so we have to catch the water here there are not many trees but the water needs to be catered to and also there is Bharatipuram which is actually quite close to this straight so if I mean again I have tried to make some shapes of the building in order to relate to this concept to bring actually both the zones together both the crown and the zone together so it can become something like that so here actually the axis will get connected to Bharatnivas and we can open up these two buildings and here there could be restaurants of let's say international cuisine so we actually represent international culture here and this stretch actually can be densified little later where the land situation actually gets solved and international hostel and other utilities can come here we can actually connect Savitri Bhavan and Unity Pavilion and create some spaces also on both the sides this is actually the continuation of the loop road so something can happen here right now Bharatnivas parking is proposed here so in future the parking areas will become something else so these spaces actually can be utilized for big public gatherings and the water bodies actually can be in the form of kund here because it actually very much represents the culture of India so the the purpose of this exercise is this language can be treated in different zones to have varied experiences without losing the essence of the zone and still retaining the language and the galaxy concept so this is where I have my two crowns haven't managed to do the other zones I don't think I will have ever time to do that so yeah that's it thank you Senali next we have Marie presenting just take a moment to put the mics but it's in French impressive yes so my name is Marie and I will present you mainly the four parks which are like the gates of each zone so I think it's kind of interesting to be after Senali after the two zones on both sides let's start yes so I start to take the profile I mean the section of the crown as we receive it as a brief as a 16.7 meter and the different lane put together yeah it's exactly no it's not exactly but it's close to the last presentation so for the people who already seen it just I will go a bit faster but it's a different type of lane all together and we create corridors and we have this 16.7 which can work to me if you have these two type of building on both side which hold the street again it's a question of proportion but I would question the width of the road as maybe a misunderstanding since 99 till today when you see the sketch of Roger here when you see the 20 meter is not talking about the road side but the crown size so I really question the word crown because I think crown is defining a road access but also the building a life urban settings so that's my first question question the width of the road next and I will also question the type of road because that define everything if it's a road with heavy traffic with motor vehicles with speed of course the building will not try to hold the road they will go as far as possible you don't have a urban life because as pedestrian or cyclist I don't really appreciate this type of road so the 16.7 meter are not anymore hold by urban facade and today when we see Kalpana library which are lower building they are far apart and in between we don't use the crown to do any urban spaces we don't do the we don't use the crown as water retaining or collecting it becomes a space which we don't really know what to do with it so I question also the quality of the road and of course like many of you many of the architect present it I will try to go for non motorized vehicle at all for this road at all of course emergency any kind of thing so we still keep a width which accepts some vehicles but it's not the main rule the main rule is pedestrian cycles alternative vehicles, electrical and public transport next so I start from the center which is Matrimondier and I express it as a radiating center which will touch this crown in several place and it's a kind of an influence that give us a inner and outer when we are on this circle around Matrimondier I did this exercise of putting all the lanes we have one for pedestrian, one for cyclist one for bus one for car one and I will question that next, so yes you saw the four cardinal points coming from Matrimondier now it's a 12 gardens which also touch the crown in different place next and then we have the four parks which have also the name of the four pillar entrance of Matrimondier which indicate that there is a relation between this and the four parks are touching the crown not only touching but intersecting the crown next and then we had a lot of experts telling us about the eco-sensitive zone that we have in Auroville and we have three men's one which are crossing the crown one in Gaia which is about it's a very it's a zone which accept a lot of percolation the soil type of soil is very good to percolate the water so if we want to save water for our city, for our park for our garden, for our forest it's a good place to save the space for percolating we have in Dark Alley which is different type of water problem it's a water catchment it's a type of canyon how to retain this water before it goes and it create a lot of problem and Aurodam, the canyon of Aurodam which are on that side what I see is that they can be combined with a park you see the blue lines the green is the park the blue is the eco sensitive zone next and from that I decide that these four lanes maybe we can reduce in this area so you can see in the three parks that I reduce it to one lane meaning there is only one place where I can have my public transport going through of course I have my pedestrian and cyclist and the others I can just create different type of section for the crown that's what's missing for me to have only one type of section for a crown which is four kilometers around Matrimondier without adapting adjusting to the context feel a bit weird so I will create four type of section for this crossing of this four park next yeah so you see I keep the coherence of the crown but I change the experience that you have during your passage on the crown so it becomes a very rich experience you have different of things there is contrast you can really see the different type of location you cross next it seems a bit abstract but it's not abstract it's located on the on the map so this circular crown which I give different thickness and different quality I connect it with a circular road to this visitor center road let's see if I manage that yes which is I mean we saw last time it's a road on Perron not sure we will be able to change it before five years I say five years because I think that's where we will for now that's where we can imagine and have an idea we can always think of the bigger plan but I think it's kind of interesting to see what we can achieve within five years in order to re-establish for the next five years after so this road is here which in fact helped me to feed this type this part of the residential zone but I don't have going through then I have this type of road I thought the mobility guys will be before me so you will understand better but so you have the road from College Road to Kotakarai and here instead of going through there is another option which is a bypass on the west part you will really see them with my colleague this afternoon I guess so and then so I feed the cultural zone from this part or with a mobility node here with my public transport only so that's again it's a matter of phasing we're ready to use public transport to reduce our individual cars and how much we can evolve towards a non-motorized city next and then that's a new slide then we were we were rotating on this ground road here even this model reflect a little with that and then we completely forgot that there is not a void in the middle so if I have to move from point A to point B maybe I will not do the long road and maybe I will just go through because that's the obvious movement if I am a pedestrian, if I'm a cyclist even if I'm on a e-bike I think I will try so that was a trial first to show you that I put the lake here even if it's not existing today today's road is going very very close to Matrimonier here so I suggest that we create an alternative road here and that helps to feed all this area of town hall and hall from both sides but again we can imagine that it's a filter traffic only for a civilian only for certain type of people, certain type of vehicles again it depends on our readiness for non-motorized community then you can see that what is, yes the green so I put as a landscaper I believe that the landscape can create the galaxy so one of the feedback from last time was oh we love greens, it's fantastic it's very nice this forest and all but how can you merge it with galaxy for me for galaxy pattern what we dream when we see this type of things for me the landscaping any green elements, any plantation can create this pattern so it's really what I try to do for the inner road around Matrimonier I imagine that it's the trees on this road I say road but it's straight path alley whatever it's this green which will create this type of circular things and then we can have some connection which replicates radials so that's something from the center you can see that there's different bridge crossing the lake of Matrimonier because I believe that you will have this need you will have a need of maybe the visitors and then maybe the residents here and here from the residents area on that side you will need maybe to for the maintenance you will need for security you will need for VIP so you will need several space to cross this lake the challenge is not to get to lose the coherence of the lake that's it next that was the inner circle and then comes the park the four park and I imagine the park as being the green microstructure of the galaxy so we are talking a lot of the line of force being the microstructure for the city for the building the park for me are the microstructure of the galaxy and they create this type of pattern from the ground of the satellite picture but also on the ground a certain type of density of plant forests and that's why there is a need of a certain width of the park that we need to respect please architects of course a tree is always more it's always possible to move and to place a building but if you start to not to have enough width for your green infrastructure for your green structure microstructure park you will start to lose it you will just have some plantation but you don't have a park and then while the green circle here it was more following the path here for me what is more important is a mass of forest and the paths are around and you may enter into it so it's a bit the same idea of here if the line of force are not exactly at the right place they constantly change depending on the map so I think it's good to be a bit relaxed about the location of the line of force but it's interesting I don't know if you will see it on the other place it's interesting to see that they exist on the two other industrial and the residential area not on these two areas that you describe because here it's more a compass feature while here it's really maybe more dense and build area here the distance between this line of force are between 50 meters to 100 meters just to give you an idea of the scale it's massive I mean it's small in between the building and it can be massive so again how to keep this proportion to have a happy life here I mean to have something that we can just breathe and we can be in contact with nature and we can interact peacefully next I think Sonali touched a little bit also before me it's these gradations, these gradients from the center to the end so we are talking about park we have all different type of idea of park we are coming from all different type of background and culture what I see for me is that from Matrimonier being really the center even in the shape this is a I mean I didn't show it here but the very famous shape of Matrimonier being a symbol an authentic symbol of unity and creation it's from that that the movement of park starts so it's quite interesting to to look at that from that center which is more manicure, sophisticated garden ornamental I mean you have a lot of water you have a lot of maintenance in this area you go from here to the garden to more park where maybe you don't have too much of shrub but more trees, isolate tree like arboretum then you go to a forest where you have the three layers where you have the shrub the creeper, you have the ground cover, you start to have a density and you start to have a much more wildlife coming into and at the end you go to Sanctuary at the end of the line so it's really how to it's not to have a monotonous experience of the park it's not everywhere the sand in the middle it's more sophisticated you need to water maybe and slowly you don't need to water and you use native plants it will be much more resilient than other plants what you can see in this it's not super clear but it's just to show you the existing plantation I mean existing forest planted with TDEF the park from the galaxy so it's two different type of layer which are not exactly saying the same things the fact that here we are completely near the village so whatever we talk about green belt or being a very massive green area on that side is already lost it's okay it's another way to contact the village and to try to find another way of bordering but we will not have a forest on that side so that means it's quite interesting and quite important to protect this area as a balance at least for now and also what I think this gradients means also the gradients where you see the sky for example for me I just love to go to Matrimody also because I have the experience of the stars, the moon the sun rising and if we have this experience here maybe we don't need to have the same experience everywhere so why not to have in the forest and in the deep park that's what the cover of the tree again it's to have different types of experience next so we have the four parks Malakshmi, Malakshmi, Malakshmi, Malakshmi and the idea is to have different types of thematic on each of them to connect them with a tree like we saw before and Gaia, which means I really increase the green part of the crown. What I want to show here that you don't see now anymore in the master plan, before there was, oh, maybe it's forgotten or maybe it's intentional, I don't know, this two ring of green here, it's very much the footprint of the galaxy, because I think there was some misunderstanding. People thought that because I'm talking only about green, I just don't talk about galaxy or footprint or building a town, so I think it was important to to see that, but in a different type of film, I mean to be creative, no? So in the residential zone, but you will see also at the last part, it's more to reinforce, you know, the paved area. We have a very open space, that's what I show you with the first section. Why not to bring the facade much closer to the road with different type of structure, light structure, permanent structure, shade structure, you know, to really have to create a shade that we cannot create with the trees anymore because we, it's too big, so it's 20 minutes. Okay, and then to continue with the same type of pattern here in the park, but it's not building, you know, with the landscape, we can create this same type of pattern. So for me here, what was important was to leave a space here for to plant the tree very close to my road, my street, and then to create a kind of paved area or shade area inside. Yes, I can tell you this first. I extend, I intentionally extend the Malakshmi Park. It was only a hundred meters stretch. I intend, extend it towards the cultural zone because as you saw before, it's much more like a compass way of urbanization, so it tolerates much more green area. Yeah, so you can see the idea is that it's not, you know, it's not, it's not, I mean, it's porous with all the cycle paths and to create more percolation pits next. That's a sketch to express what I said before, to have a shared space for this one. I keep the two lanes for me because I prefer to have one space in this area, all the vehicles, and to save the rest and not to have different type of crossing. It's much more, I mean, I think it's much more, I mean, it's more ideal for water percolation to save the rest of the area for water. So everybody is coming on the same lane. I don't have a motorized individual vehicle and I repeat myself. Next. So that's a section for that. You see six meters for the road because it's everybody here and two meters on both sides to tolerate this type of shade, infrastructure and all. Infrastructure, I didn't go too much in detail about that. I changed it before. I put it under the road and now I put it outside the road because it seems that we need access to it. I mean, what is important for me is that infrastructure are not defining what is outside. You know, it's buried in the ground. So we need to be practical. We need it, but it's not something that will create a type of life outside. It's not something that could create a city or a street feeling. So we will need to see that, but I'm sure that we can find solution and also solution in phasing. You know, it's not that we have to bury today pipes and cable for 50,000 people today with the technology of today. While we know that in five and 10 years, it will be obsolete. So we can do something. Maybe we change this gradient of 50,000 to something which is more realistic in five or 10 years and then in five or 10 years anyway, we will have to change it and we will know exactly where we will change it. Next. So now we are in my Cali Park. I didn't increase the size of the park. It's about 300 meters. That's where, I mean, we are in youth center. That's where trees have been cut recently while it's a park. I mean, it will be a park. That's the idea. The only thing that I will say, it's this access here that is today existing and that helped to feed the cultural zone, blocked completely all the, the sport ground, the school to the other side on that side. So are we ready to leave our vehicle here or here? Again, it's not only a personal effort or individual effort. It's a public effort. We need to create, I mean, I saw on the previous presentation, e-cycle pool, transition, I mean, mobility, parking. So all this can be done and can be done if we are enough on our cycle or on our e-cycle to ask for this change. Again, here you see, really, I don't see any building on this stretch because it's quite small. I mean, you have a lot of water that you need to live, to go through this way. But with hedge. Yes. Next. So next, it's illustration for that. And it's just to show you that with native species hedges, we can create space. On this terrain, it's a bit more fluid. On the previous map, it was a bit rigid because I wanted to follow the galaxy. We can play. We can do next. Yes, I hear you. So the section here was just to show you that by dividing this different lane, I don't have any motor vehicles on that park. By dividing this different traffic, and by playing, it's meandering, I can plant on the side of it, and then I can create the shade for it. I don't need to be in the sun because it's small. Again, the proportion with the forest beside can help the shading. Next. So that's quite important, but it's dark early forest. I'll go fast. Here, that's water bodies that we saw today. I propose to go with only a catwalk to have a public transport on the side and to have the motorized individual vehicles going on that side. This is new. It doesn't exist. I mean, the main idea is really to preserve the water. I mean, it's our main richest and our main... I mean, it's something that seems obvious to me. We have so much space on the other side of the ground to build. So why do we try to put something here? Maybe in 10 years, I don't say. Maybe we will find a solution to combine. But today I don't see really the point. This is a line of force that are transforming to line of light. That was this, no? No, light of life. Yes. You will see just after me. So again, we can create this type of... For me, it's not something too rigid, but it's where maybe we collect all the water. We create more water body. And that's the idea of line of life. Whatever we do here in the first five years will help us to find a solution for this one and this one. Because the water is going in three different parts, intersects with the crown in three parts. Next. Yeah, so enjoy the drawings. Next. You see. I mean, it's the idea of the axis of the crown is here. And we just create the next. I thought that would be very short. Okay, so that's residential zone. My primary park is here. Depending on the map, the line of force or the line of goodwill is different. So it's a bit on top of each other. As a landscaper, I have to defend my park. I'm sorry. So what does it mean? That means maybe we can extend the park on that side. Or maybe we can really, really, really emphasize the fact that the line of force should have any green facade, green roof, urban farming. It has to give this type of typology on that side. Residential zone here, double line in the central, double line of trees in the central part and building on both sides to protect the canyon and to protect the education zone here. Next. Sorry. So you see that the double line here. Next. The line. So now I have 14 meters, but I have a central area here which I can plant because I put both infrastructure on both sides. And I have shade. So suddenly I have a solution to have kind of a large crown. Next. I can't go there, no? I mean, I don't have time. Next. We do need to just set up for the next presentation. Yeah. So there are a few more minutes while maybe there's some commotion on the stage. Just so you know. Yeah, good. So that was between the library and the calpana. You remember I mentioned the big, large open space which is already paved. My idea is to reclaim the paved area and to create shade, light structure, you know, really to recreate a life, a ban life that you saw on the previous presentation. Maybe it was Radica and Shivangi who was explaining how, blah, blah, blah, blah. Next. And then you see the solar kitchen here, a porthouse and the stretch which is already paved. So it's really this idea if the crown becomes a straight, which you don't have any motorized vehicle, then you can recreate a type of urban life. You park your car, your car in a building. You plug your cycle here. You do what you want. Next. That was the last slide to say what we can do next. In fact, we can absolutely do. So you see you have four different sections already. And if you start to do the other section on the galaxy, you have different types of sections all around. Plan the park, create the plaza of the solar kitchen, build a dark alley and divert the road west to dark alley. And then the other things are something like creating groups with a village about mobility. If we start to, you will see later, if we start to create this road here for the visitor center, we can really establish a communication with the village and with Quillapalaya. If we reduce the burden of the heavy traffic that we have now, if we take care of our own traffic, we create this differently. And then that can help us to also envisage all this part here, all this border here. For me, it seems a bit complex. And yeah, it's to create a public transport now. Yeah, that's it. Sorry. Thank you, Marie. Excuse me. And yeah, just to say we really don't want to cut the architects short, but we just really want to respect everyone's time and the other architects' time. And so when we go over, we take the time from the next presenters. And so, yeah. Next we have Ganesh and Neha, who also have a live model they've brought with them, which is just being set up. It's a bit like a puzzle. They're trying to figure out where to put what. Can we have the mouse? So, hello everyone. So the feedback that we've received in the past, the feedback and guidance, I would say, in the past several weeks has been quite a bit for us to process, given the depth and intensity of what we've, you know, what everybody has shared. So, you know, so that's where we are right now. Yeah, sure. Before I start, I thought of this a lot in the last two weeks. The first thanks to Omar, David and Mona and the citizen assembly team. I mean, it's like we did a master's course in the last one and a half month. It feels like that after talking to so many people. So what we've done as a follow-up is basically we made the model. So we said we have to see it in three-dimension what we're talking about. So it was basically that need which drove us towards this. And what you see here is in no way perfect. It's like, in fact, probably more mistakes, which we will notice when we did this than the good things. In fact, even this morning we went and cut off a lot of buildings away. So it's like, so it's a working model and that's how we should see it. And yeah, because we're used to seeing this, yeah. And we really wanted this and, you know, see it from almost horizontal, what we're talking about. That was the intention behind making this model. We'll just run through the previous slides just as a recap because a lot of new audience is probably also watching this right now. So this is essentially what we're trying to do, yeah. How to get a synthesis and integrate all these factors. That is the A. So yeah, it's a synthesis and not a win-win. And we started at looking at the Galaxy, basically saying what the Galaxy offers us, which is basically looking at the old master plan, the models. So this was the first exercise which we did, which led us to an understanding of the geometry which happens at different parts of the Galaxy and how this will inform probably even how the DDP is prepared in different areas. And this is something which we said last time, the road is not apparent. So what is the road? What are we talking about? So it's that interpretation that we are trying to look at more deeply now. And this is what we're talking about. That I really like for what it is and the edges. And we feel that the edges needs to also be really emphasized because that's a really core aspect of the crown when we talk about it. And also this reading that the crown becomes less in some parts and which we saw very clearly when we made the model, it comes through more profoundly. And I think that aspect we can use smartly in certain areas. After looking, we said we should draw it. So it is more like drawing the Galaxy where we just went ahead and drew it without having an agenda. And what we had where the trees mark along the road, what we would have really liked. And as a next step we should do is mark the trees here for this zone. And then take it and play with it. So a lot of things what you see beyond this line is inferred. If we had this data, it can become that much more realistic. But still I think it's a fantastic start to at least look at it. So this is drawing. Like I said, we see it as one building and we see it with an architectural eye as a singular piece of built environment. And the last line is the most important for us is this shouldn't divide the town. Yeah, and that's I think the key core thing. So yes, just quickly same points as last time, achieving a continuity of the built form that would be built by different architects over a long period of time. Integrating and acknowledging the neighboring building, material palette, use one material from your neighboring building so that you get uniformity, but also, you know, diversity at the same time, anticipate connections. And all these many of these came through when we started doing the model, you could actually feel these things happening and acknowledge the boundary definition of the courtyards and plots, plots to be assigned keeping in mind the edges of the crown. So now from the concept we are coming to part of the context taking from also taking it forward from on Murray was saying the parks are holding the whole master plan. They're not only connecting to the green belt, but also the whole city. And when you start looking at what the parks are named, then it starts somehow making sense about what each zone really aspires to be. So for example, when we start with Maheshwari, there is wisdom and cosmic vastness. I hope you don't mind if I just read because it kind of, so she comprehends all things and all beings and their nature and what moves them and the law of the world and its times and how all was and is and must be. So somehow the international zone and a part of the residential zone makes sense where there is Maheshwari Park, not just a park, but there is Maheshwari, you know, and then coming to Mahakali that is strength and intensity. So to knowledge, which is my Saraswati side on the park, she gives a conquering might, brings to beauty and harmony, which is the Mahalakshmi Park, a mounting movement and imparts to the slow, difficult labor after perfection and impetuous. So somehow these parks are named and in a certain way, where they are holding the whole town almost coming to Mahalakshmi, beauty and harmony, it brings beings and forces together and obliges them to meet and unite. So somehow that community aspect is already there in what she's called the parks, you know, and then there is Mahasaraswati, perfection and power of work. So this is interesting because this, okay, this is Shorbindo actually. So he talks about when she takes up the transformation and new building of nature, her action is laborious and minute and often seems to our impatience, slow and interminable. So that's where Dharkali is, you know. So we probably need to go a little slower. We need to be far more detailed and taking our time in understanding what that is. So somehow, yeah, taking what Mari was saying, the parks are really, that's the context that we take forward from the parks. Yeah, and then another context of where we find the ground. This is from the last time where we said depending on the zoning, location, park, forest, section of the ground building. So we've just taken it one step forward where we're trying to see what the spatial density is versus the green density versus the social density. So just to see in broad aspects of what the experience, we are not designing the experience. We're just saying what type of experience it might be. And this is just, you know, it's extremely conceptual and we haven't given it too much thought, but this is where we feel that we can start by the sense of these kind of three kind of densities. So this drawing, like we told last time, was very important for us and it was almost like a shifting point. So where we start looking at the empty spaces, the spaces between the buildings in the galaxy model and define them and use them as catchment for watersheds and also define the pockets of existing tree clusters and base the size of the cluster depending on the kind of tree it is. And where there are no trees, we actually plant trees and define this empty space. So buildings can come besides it in the future. And these three variety of pockets have to be taken, have to be seen also in relation to the creation of public spaces along the crown of varying sizes and density. So what we also did, I mean, we had a very good session with Julio and where we actually understood the whole concept of watershed and, you know, what are the volume of water which you cater for and things like that. So once you do it, we found that this drawing, I mean, it's very easy to have to integrate this concept into reality. And this is something which we can already do. And over the years, we felt that we should, even though the galaxy isn't there, we should have a notion of the galaxy while building. But this will actually put something in place which will be easier to relate for any architect building as a physical space actually. So coming back from the concept of the context, we had this slide the last time. So water catchments along the way, looking at the water streams, one interesting thing that came up again with our conversation with Julio was that, for example, here, the water would percolate really fast. So reusing is going to be complicated. So then we have swales that take it to a slightly catchment-friendly area that can then be used, reused for domestic purposes. Whereas for the clay, where we have the Manavelli clay, then we really look into getting, collecting the water in catchments and reusing it because those will stay for a little longer than, say, in the sandstone area. So that's, yeah, and water is life, the point of meeting of several water streams culminating in a line of force of life. Okay, this is just a small slide we had done last time to indicate how the development could happen, integrating the existing trees and the water catchment areas. And actually, the key is defining the edges of the building in the spirit of the edges in the crown. And we let different people build different parts of the whole crown wherein this whole sense of authorship almost melts away in a way, which will be nice. Yeah, yeah, of course. A new model of costing has to be established because when you want to do all these connections and water bodies and all that, the costing will change. So somehow this has to be also integrated in the guidelines so that the architects are supported in getting the buildings. Okay, so now coming to the context of the master plan perspective 2025, we begin by looking at what the master plan has, specific objectives of the master plan. And one of them is identifying the need for conservation of historic, ecologically sensitive, and aesthetically important areas. So starting from the master plan document, we come to darkly and the overlays of the zones and users on the extent of darkly forest. So when you see the park is only a part of it, the Maasaraswati Park, there's the industrial zone up there, there is the international pavilion pavilions of Americas, then the crown of the international zone and the industrial zone crown area. So that's where that's all of what exists in the so looking at how the crown holds the forest rather than the forest making way for the crown. So we recommend the thinning of the crown as it passes through the ecologically sensitive areas, structures that touch the earth lightly, canopy walkways, bridges, culverts, special building guidelines for international zone that fall within the forest, building guidelines, materials, low impact structures for the industrial zone. And also the use, limiting the proposed building functions to ones like tree care, arbitrary culture, canopy expedience, so what goes in, these are also part of the industrial zone, these are the industries that Auroville is very proud of actually. So really looking into the building uses that connect with the area. One of the things with the functions is we try to figure out what all, I mean you need a brief, so when you take the whole crown 4.3 kilometers and what do you put in it, the amount, the volume of functions which need to go in are still undefined. So what we are playing with is very flexible, I mean we might realize that some users are needed much ahead in the future, so we are just keeping space, it's almost that's what we are doing right now. And for Dharkali specifically, we had a lot of interactions and exchange of ideas as to whether it should be a park through just a walkway through Dharkali or something else, because last time we said, we would, we see almost like a bridge which crosses Dharkali. And after a lot of thinking somehow, at least me, I'm still there, I mean I have not changed my perspective yet and I still feel the idea of a bridge still holds relevance, mainly because if we talk about, we have to look at the crown, not just as a road, if we're just talking about the road or a path, fine. But the moment we talk about crown buildings, which include this, then I feel it's better to address that point already now. And by doing a bridge-like structure going above, and also what helps is, you'll see in the model, actually the Dharkali almost goes down by three meters and comes up. That is a natural slope. So if we use that and have a different kind of architecture going along the crown street there, wherein you have just very simple pavilions which float among the trees, I think we have a great chance of redefining crown in this area, which should be very beautiful. And I think we shouldn't lose the chance. So that's where I'm going, I think. And also two days back, we discovered that in some of the documents, these two lines of forces weren't there. So we are not sure whether, so our, if you ask us, we'll say, okay, remove those two lines of forces, yeah. If you say, okay, keep it, then we'll say, okay, let's do a line of force of water. But if you say it's not enough, then this is what we will do. So that's the gradation of our thinking. So if we do a line of force over the line of force of life, we feel it could look something very thin, very light, maybe just steel, wood, something like that, and something which rises gently over through the trees and with related functions of what Darkali is doing and the functions. So this is probably how it could be when you walk along the bridge going through Darkali. The previous slide is important. So looking at the master plan document again, we've just collected everything for the permitted uses for the crown in different zones. And actually when you look at it, there are several repetitions. So really studying those uses can give, I'm sure it will give us pockets of places where the density can be really low. So this needs to really be looked at. For example, I think there's a sub post office twice. And then I think two banks or something like that. So yeah, so one can, you know, really study that. So in terms of qualitative, this is again from the last time, creating a sense of discovery, designing for cognitive ease. Shindran Yoku, which a lot of people said, wow, that sounds lovely. An invitation for mindful movement through planned walkways and cycle paths, been built environment that is planned as a nudge to pause and bringing in a sense of delight. I don't understand mobility. So this, I just have a question, mobility for whom? Pedestrian, cyclists, bikes, cars, snakes, running toddlers, tippers with sand, goats, school buses, Portuguese bags with aching bags, trucks, slow pedestrians with an unsteady gate. Now that you can decide what that might mean. Mongoose, tractors, through traffic, frogs who jump at headlights, the ones who are late. Ambulance, fire truck, concrete mixers, e-bikes, cows. I don't know. So that's my bit about mobility. So this is the, I mean, we tried our hand at looking at the section and the mobility kind of go together here. So this is the section from ATDC and with the 16.7 meters with the different sections marked. So what's important to note here is when Roger looked at it and designed it, he was looking at the pedestrians using the space below the buildings. And this was for vehicular traffic. So that is the data which we have. And of course we need the services going through. Now, what's important is the brief says the crown mobility is pedestrian and public EV transport at that speed. So I feel that as per Roger's section, the pedestrians are using this. So if this is the case, the Crown Street is purely for a public EV transport and cyclists who can use the same street without the need for an additional dedicated lane. So we could actually come with a smaller section of the road of just six meter, keeping that in mind, which will satisfy the brief, which is what is intended. The service corridors on either side have been allotted the space as per the infrastructure requirement. That's what we've done. The service corridor and the road to be okay, this is very important. We want, we thought the service corridor on the road should be at the same level and move away from the idea of a pavement, which then leads us to get extra space if heavy vehicle comes or an ambulance comes. You get that extra maneuverability possible. Yeah. And if you are designing the crown, we should design for the final mobility envisage already now. And we should actually build sections of crown the way we want it down in the future, but just let's do a small section, do it the way it's supposed to be, have the mobility that's supposed to be there then. And then that will give us a lot of clues as to, we can still continue with how we're doing the rest of the space. Here, what I really liked was David did a couple of years back, one study, wherein he was looking at how this can be phased out. And I think it's worth really revisiting that study and take one section and concentrate our effort and just doing one part the way we want it and take cues from that for the future. So this is where we end up with. If you reduce it, we still come at 11.6 after talking with the infrastructure expert from Ahmedabad. We were totally like, we said like, we need him sitting with us to do it. We are like a little bit, I felt, yeah, yeah, it's not our domain really, yeah. And we need him and have that interaction which we had, which will define this. So even though we've done this, I know that it's probably premature. And if he looks at it from his eyes, he will see it like that. And that's what's needed. And that we felt very strongly when we drew this. But what we tried to show in the section is this connectivity is the most important. So this is the difference which I wanted to highlight from the previous section. The crown is from here to here. I think that is the key thing which we need, even though that part of the crown is in the zone, but that's still the crown. Because if we have a, it would lead to, but our sense was can we make it smaller, where it's parked and we really resonate with what Murray showed just previously with the paved area in the park following the shapes of the galaxy. And somehow we felt that the crown should pass through the park, but with a much lower density. I don't think we should stop it. So which is why we tried to do, show it here, where you get a sense of the density reducing and then kind of going up again. Yeah. So there's something in that direction. We missed a slide in the middle. Yeah, yeah, go ahead. When you're talking about the catchments. So designing for the dry season. So when we do the catchments, the wet season is very short. So we plan as a land, as a, the blue is also the social infrastructure. So you actually make the catchments as social meeting places, small amphitheaters. And then of course, then they fill up in the, in the two or three months and then they go back to being social infrastructure. So they are not just, you know, big holes in the ground, but really integrating the social life as well. So when we read the galaxy, what's very interesting is when Roger's, the landscape and Roger's galaxy model is actually flowing. Yeah, it doesn't follow the structure of the galaxy. Yeah. And what we are proposing here is that we follow the structure in, in the landscape. Yeah. And the reason we're doing it is these connections we feel would evolve. Yeah. It's very, this is where the merge needs to happen. And this is kind of like a dilemma, which I'm bringing out here. If you read this carefully, you see the way the galaxy moves, the landscape in the galaxy model moves. And this is something which, when we spoke to Paul, he kept talking about the connection and it was like really puzzling for us. And we really tried to do it. And then very important slide, which Murray showed. So like when we talked last time that you pick the galaxy model up, it'll almost come together because it's all connected. A similar sense, we should kind of apply on the landscape. But in the whole, all the landscape is connected. How do we do it? We don't know yet. Yeah. Which is why we tried to show what we tried to show in the model here. Yeah. That is the attempt which we are going towards. But this is a very important aspect, which is still a little bit puzzling for us. Yeah. This was just a section through, through both the parks, the industrial zone with the Akali there. And that's the international zone. This was a previous section, but I think the model is much more accurate than this. We misjudged the height of the, we found two different data of the heights of the line of force, therefore the difference. And this is something which we did and we completed. So for eight months when you take the sun chart and see in the hottest time where the street might be hot, but we realized while doing the model that the moment you connect the street on top at different levels, not just the lines of force, but other parts as well, this will become much easier for us to solve. We can achieve quite a bit of shade even in the hot summer for people to move through. And I'll just do it. Just to emphasize, this image, street and avenue trees. And I think that's where we've gone and it's cool. I mean, maybe there was a need at the time and we did it. But where we should go is something else. And I think that we should be aware of. That is a certain pattern. And that pattern, you don't see it in the Galaxy model. That's what we're trying to say. And we should be conscious of that. And in the same vein, at least aspiration is, how do you say it? The urban form of the Galaxy is, even though we take, we all take references from what we've seen, the aspiration is it should be something we have not seen. And I think that's where we should head towards. What that means, God knows. But we should consciously avoid going where we have gone. I think that's where we should... There's the focus, let's say. That's it. Thank you. Thanks a lot. There's more to see in the model. And we can't really... There are a lot of stories within each part of the model. When you do it, it comes out. And we can't show it here. In fact, we finished it this morning, so we couldn't even put it here on the presentation. No, just insights, which you get when making... So our idea was, you look at the Galaxy, you draw the Galaxy, then we said, let's make the Galaxy. So it's just getting to know the Galaxy. That is our intention. So here, the sense of the density comes through when you look at it like this, where like Murray said very clearly, this is the most dense part with the lines of force and these buildings being 150 meters at distance. And the next is that, that the residential zone gets really dense and where the lines of force end. So which is what we try to indicate with the lines of force come and there's a water body happening. So this blue is where the whole water catchment story comes in a model. And also when the lines of force come down, maybe the water cascades and catch gets caught here and then it goes on. Interesting story is the cultural zone. If you look at it, there have been various interpretations of the cultural zone. In fact, David Moore and I, a little bit with him, did a study last year also of the cultural zone, which was of a different language. This time we attempted it, taking cues from that study, actually. Barron, like Sonali said, you have these chai trees here. Use that as the point of the grid and create spaces around. And when you create those spaces, you follow the geometry which the crown of the Galaxy gives you, which in this case is a hexagon. But we didn't take the hexagon as a hexagon. That is the difference. We took the hexagon as volumes which 60, you know, 120, 180 degrees and created space around it. So it's an abstraction of that concept. And using the same principle which we use here with the water bodies, we try to put it there. And this whole idea of having gardens at the first level, second level, then the whole space when you walk through, almost the ground floor can be empty. I mean, you just walk through between trees and suddenly you have openings, you know, when you go through the zone. Then that becomes a campus which Paul alluded to. And we saw where he was coming from, especially for the cultural zone, to see it as a campus where different things happen. Because cultural zone is also a place of learning in a sense with theater and things like that. And it's one of the most important spaces we feel in Auroville. And yeah, there's just an attempt to look how this might perhaps go ahead. And also when we did the model, we just took different widths of the building, you know, 20 meters, 15 meters, 10 meters, 7.5 meters and played with it. Basically, we played with it. Yeah. But that is the notion. So you can have different widths of spaces possible in what you see here. And then from there, if you see the cultural zone is very interesting. This is the actual park. Yeah. And by the way, this whole, the base, you know, is what makes the model and she's one who did the whole drawing. It comes from there. I mean, that's the magic here. And this is actually the park. But you see in the cultural zone, you have the whole space from here to here, where the buildings are defined till reaching the park. It's like a transition. So technically, like Marie also said, the park starts from here and goes all the way there. And this is the space where we try to say from that density, you come down lower, have a little pavilion through the park and then comes, bam, you have all this high density. And it's a different kind of experience. And when we say we should try a section of the crown to, you know, as a, as an example, it could even be anywhere here because this is fairly, yeah, there is very few buildings along the stretch. We can take one section and see how it feels, and then take use to develop. And then this is our famous force of water. I mean, you can just, the model can work like this. Absolutely. And if it needs to, it can also do this in a different way. I mean, this has to be a building by itself. I mean, of a certain character. And this is what we see could happen through the Akali. You can have the bridge and you have different decks going. And then you have pavilions. So basically you're at a much higher level than the tree. And when you're here, you're on top of the canopy of the tree. So you get the whole experience of a tree here. And international zone. Of course, we've indicated also this is something we've not looked at. That's the archaeological site. And we should speak to Popo. But again, that gives us a great chance of the crown passing through something really beautiful. You go through something there, you see the whole excavation below you, which is perfect in the international zone. It's the idea of nation civilization, basically an old civilization. Yeah. And then from there, you come through this and this. And then the industrial zone is perfect. Yeah. And that is the line of goodwill just next to the park, which we've highlighted. Oh, yeah. Sorry, that's a two a mistake. Good point. I'll tell you. And here we tried what Shailaja had mentioned when we had our interaction. How does the ideas interact with the existing buildings? Yeah. And this is our very feeble attempt at that. But I think that was just the first step. And that section needs a lot of, I think, attention and study as to how this, whatever you want to build, connects. And, you know, so it's, you already see the different areas which we need to concentrate on when you look at it like this. And that's right. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you, Ganesh and Neha for that presentation. Yeah. Yeah. Sorry. Yeah. So Marie, you can stay here. And I'd like to invite Sonali also. Okay. Yeah. So we have about 15 minutes for any questions on these, the three presentations that were given. And again, specifically on how any of the feedback that you as participants had given last week, how that was incorporated, any questions on the evolution of the designs since last time and since those inputs. So we'll open it up for questions from any of the participants and kindly share your name and architect team that your question is for. So I'll take three questions and then we'll see if we have time for more. So I have two very brief comments and one question. The comments are, I heard again in some presentations centralized and decentralized. But I think both in the water presentation and the energy we had proposed neither centralized, nor decentralized, distributed, but connected. So that is one clarification. Second thing is I'm not aware of any infrastructure which has been installed or is being installed for 50,000. It is planned, but nothing has been installed for 50,000. My question is, what do you mean by motorized traffic? Do you mean anything with a motor? Because even an e-cycle has a motor or do you mean fossil fuel traffic? I think we have to be clear about that. Thank you. So I see Marco. So I'll take that question. We'll take a total of three and then Omar. Yeah. My name is Marco. I just want to point out on cultural zone. Yeah. I know that this concept for the architect is something that is not acceptable, but artists usually, I mean, we have seen in artists, they want, they have their identity and their way of thinking about the building. Definitely, Creva, something like Creva, just to understand Creva and Louie from IBSCOs, they have totally different concept of the building they would like to have. I know that many people don't like, for example, the Louie idea of this canopy, et cetera, et cetera, but the idea of the architect, they usually is to have always the same element in the same zone. Well, it's not really what the art is like. Ah, for the industrial zone. Yeah. So I see the industrial zone is the only place where the visitors can have access. And again, we have exhibitions, festivals, and so somehow we have to find out the way that in that zone, also the public can go. Otherwise, in the cultural zone, they never can go to see an exhibition. They never can go to interact with the Avrilians. So, well, that is a question, Mark. Thank you. So we'll take Omar's question and then hand it over to the architects for any responses. So it's more a comment, yeah. Since we started this exercise, I have been wondering to which degree there will be some exploration in, let's say, geometry and city form in a way that could open doors to solving problems that we are dealing with today. And I feel in this, it's what the geometry and the form we have to remember is one aspect, but yeah. But this is touched upon in this presentation I have seen and I feel like the two main issues for me are really in a way to be solved in these presentations. One of them is this issue of the continuity of the crown experience versus the continuity of the park experience. And I think this idea that you can from the inside to completely to the outside fully walk while not feeling you are crossing a road, you are crossing a wide mechanical road. And the second issue is this of geometry versus no geometry. And I was since the beginning waiting for something to see in which I always see when you look at the Orville vision, you cannot really cognize in the first 20 seconds if it is purely geometrical circle or not. You need to look and then comes the purely mechanical road that it is so clear to see in the first 10 seconds it is. And I feel really touched upon and now we are moving in a possibility in which we come back to the original sensibility in which it's so ambiguous. It's still a continuous experience. It doesn't cut the experience of the park. So I'm really touched to see this happening. And I really appreciate all the effort that you have done. Yeah, thank you. Thank you. Any observations, responses, comments from any of the architects to those questions? So to interest that, into going slow, interact, I mean, I mean, just not to have the noise. It doesn't mean science, but it means the sound of a living experience, of a living place of the planet. And the pollution, of course, commits, yeah, to have the chance to breathe under the trees and to have another type of experience. The story of the 50 thousand was coming from this, from two days ago when we had this interaction with the expert also about infrastructure. And I just realized that we are putting cables on the pipe and the technology is so fast that we are already behind it. So how to create something which will be fantastic for us for the next five years, 10 years, knowing that the growth of Orville, yes, we want to grow, but not at an unreasonable ratio. Thank you, Mary. Any other comments, observations on any of the other two questions also? I will just respond to the geometry and what you were talking about. So geometry is not something which is rigid. So and it doesn't limit us from architectural expressions. So there is a lot of possibility in creating what we want to create still for artists. And one thing which actually I forgot to mention in my presentation is actually we are talking about the palette of the buildings, but we should also look at the palette of the right of way, because that is actually guiding us through. And it's also a space. So if we have to start reading it as space, we have to actually talk about how we treat that and the surface textures of different, let's say, lanes of right of way also actually are important. Which we came up when we met, when we did the presentation along with David some years back, and it's still unresolved, but point taken and the next time we touch it, I think we definitely take it and just one thing is one experience when we did the model, each time we make the scale bigger, it just becomes that much easier. And I think we should keep making bigger and bigger and bigger till we reach one is to one and resolve all those things with paper and then go on to the next day. Any final comments? Okay. So thank you so much to all four of you for all of your work in these last two weeks and for continuing to evolve your designs. Thank you. Let's give them a warm round of applause. So just a few logistical points. The participants will all of us here will be having lunch over at Oro Anam, Anam Kitchen in Bart Nivas. So we invite you to... Are they bringing it here now? Oh, fantastic. Okay. Oh, it's not yet here. Okay, so the lunch will be coming here, but it's not yet here. But there was actually an optional screening that we wanted to do. We thought we would do it in the last 15 minutes of lunchtime, but I suggest we actually do it now. Mona, would you like to speak to that? I think so we had some of the participants had requested us that we would like to see more aspects of infrastructure design. Like, you know, we had so much expertise on so many aspects, but with infrastructure we felt we were kind of... We had only one or two options that we had been seeing, you know, in the 4th, 5th, 6th of February, the technical sessions. So we invited... We asked Rajeev if he could arrange something from Amdabad, and we had a very nice presentation by Maulik Jhaveri and his team, and it's only 15 minutes or even less and very crisp. And we all... All the people who saw it, the participants felt it was worthwhile because it gave different options of what is possible, what they have done in other places in India. So we just thought we should show the... We have the presentation, but we thought we should show the video because then you will understand also how they explain it. And it's very short, I'd really request if you would all stay and it's a pity that Tuan just left, but anyway, we'll show it to him some other time. But yeah, so we can screen it. Yeah, so it's just an option if you want to stay and we'll let you know as soon as lunch arrives. I guess it will be soon. And just to note that we will be starting again at 2pm, which is in an hour and 15 minutes. So feel free to use that time as best for you. Thank you so much, everyone. See you at 2. We work with Vasu Shilpa consultant since now many years. And with them, we have worked for many projects, many innovative projects under the guidelines of Rajeev sir, for Smritiwan, Rastri Raksha Shakti University, IIT, I am Udaypur Flames University. Right now we are working for school building in Chinnai. Of course. So right now the today's major presentation, which we would like to talk about is a various infrastructure we normally consider for the development of a when we develop an infrastructure like roads and things for a development. And these are the kind of infrastructure MEP what we required is we required electrical cables, we required common service cables, we required fiber cables, data cables, then we required water supply network pipes, drainage pipes from water network solid waste management might be in scope of a corporation that and gas piping. So these are the normal services which we required and definitely need to consider while designing the roads because there would be definitely some kind of some kind there would be maintenance. So how would we design the system which would reduce the downtime, which will reduce my headache to people, everything. So according to that, we have we designed the systems in various methodology. And today we would like to share the experience of two extreme networks. One is a poll as Raju sir has mentioned, which is the Dalini poll in Ahmedabad, the old city, which we have restored with the help of Seva which we would like to share. And another is a new CBD which is coming up in near Ghazi Nangar which is Gip city. This is the basic map of a phasing map of a Dalini poll. The total stretch is around 250 meters from entry to this. This is a very it's a public road. So that was RT's impression which they would like to do. For this we have also got some food co avocates. So this is these are the pictures will show you the earlier what was the kind of installation was there and what were the situation of the roads where this is what we would like this is this shows the proposed view of a similar thing. And this is what it is right now after development. And this is the section which we are talking about. So what we have done is we have we have buried all services. We have also done strong water lines. We have also done there are old in old polls. We also have a firefighting inbuilt. So that also we have incorporated and then you will you will surprise the total width of the road is 2.5 meters. Then all services are buried only. So we have we have considered strong water lines. We have considered electrical cables. We have considered communication cables. Now we have we would like to discuss you about the gift city few of the slides. Gift city is a most advanced city which has been developed near Gandhi Nagar. It is the idea of gift city is being considered as a digging free city. So what they're talking about is maybe we don't want to dig at any point of time. So this is the entire layout and the stretch of a gift city. And this is a walkable tunnel which we have developed right now. We have developed for eight kilometers and further it has been and we said for the total of a 16 plus kilometers. It is entirely even 407 can run into the trench and do the maintenance. This has been considered because this is considered to be a CBD. So there are many new requirements new upcoming things are coming up. So you don't know what kind of services we need to plan. So if we know what are the kind of services we need to look at it. Then we can definitely think about various options. This is a basically a look of a trench below ground right now existing. And this is one of the school which we are developing in Chennai. That also that is this campus is housing 1400 trees right now. And we are not cutting any of one of them. And we are doing this is a 2100 student campus. So we are designing a walkable tunnel trench of Lesser height below the plinth of the corridor which we have shown the entire service has been taken through it. So this is just for your reference. Now we come to the what are the kind of systems we talk about. So either we can do everything buried in ground. We can also have a pipe plus manual network. We can have cable trench which can be open able from the top might be sides of the road. And this is what we have already seen as a walkable tunnel trench. Now what we have done is we are not reaching to any conclusion. But what we have designed dedicated some parameters and identified the pros and cons of each system with this slide. So we can discuss further during your whatever if anybody has a question.