Further on, after stating connectivity and the enhancement of pre-existing values as a point of departure, we propose activating urban dynamics by agency of different architectural interventions that harness local potentials. On the one hand, we situate “incomplete infrastructures” at the junctions of either community productive gardens or accessible public spaces, in order to provide spaces for particular development that respond to singularized economic or cultural necessities. On the other hand, we propose a wholesale vegetable market that functions as a part of the city, by opening itself to the movements and dynamics of the neighbourhood without disturbing its scale, while allowing for further developments. An evolutionary logic that is similarly applied to the landscape project, which binds all other interventions together and acts as the main instrument for urban design.
In that manner, Koundapalayam -a place which was once known as an abode for migratory birds- now seeks to rejuvenate its relationship with its ecosystems. A systematic-landscaping project based on buffer zones, ecological corridors, and planting strips along circulation edges capable of creating permeable borders and productive settings. Hence, we emphasize that the synergy between the subsequent, progressive interventions is aimed at the improvement of a healthy lifestyle of citizens, ensured not only by potentializing the site’s natural properties but by implementing ecologic strategies in the architectural level. Thence there is an implicit inclusion of solar-power technologies, water recycling techniques, and responsible waste management systems.
Thus, the alliance between existing and proposed infrastructural processes functions as an open system for resilience; one that works in a constant state of evolution and is collectively operated and managed, thus empowering people and the environment itself. Furthermore, the biggest advantage of proposing public places as ‘unfinished’ is that it allows for an organic, locally-controlled, and context-sensitive growth, wherein the key enabling factor becomes the provision of an infrastructural shell that allows for different activities to plug in and out. Circumstantial add-ons or public nodes, that retrofit the site to make it multivalent in nature. An operational rearticulation, oriented at the engagement of people with build, rebuilding, and maintenance within a completely different paradigm.
In many ways, the objective of this proposal is to create possibilities from something that begins as incomplete yet is in an ever-changing state that requires public interactions to complete and enriched the urban proposal. These disruptions and possibilities have the capacity to strengthen, sustain, and revive citizen-led initiatives working towards the betterment of the local environmental conditions.