ADPP24N & ADPP25N
Design Thesis Project: Specialisation and Proposition &
Design Thesis Project: Resolution
Breaking Barriers Uniting People
Sadiqa Jabbar
01000566
Diploma Unit 6 2008/9
Architecture of Rapid Change & Scarce Resources

ADPP24N & ADPP25N
Design Thesis Project: Specialisation and Proposition &
Design Thesis Project: Resolution
Breaking Barriers Uniting People
A Marriage Made in a Factory Breaking Barriers Uniting People Supplementary Documents
‘A Marriage Procession in a Bazaar’ Jagdamba and the Wider Context - Sketchbook 1
- Sketchbook 2
- The Chosen Painting Physical Survey - Sketchbook 3
- Painting Analysis - Outer Peripheries
- Bazaar in a Wider Context - View from Within - Routes
- Extrapolation - Walk Through - Design Development
- Inhabitation - West Jagdamba Entrance
- West Jagdamba and Eastern Break out - IDS Diary
- Chosen Site - IDS Report
- Chosen Site Plan Development
Spice Mixing Delivering Goods - Existing Site Plan - Research Booklet
- Everyday Life in a Curry Factory Cultural Survey
- Site Analysis - Frisbee and Drawing Sessions
- Tahera and Abdullah - Local people and Trade
- Sections AA & BB
- Section CC Jagdamba Strategy
- Extrapolation - Overall Strategy
- Inhabitation - Phasing Strategy
- Potential Developments
Chosen Site
- Site Analysis
- Site Analysis
Strategy
- Site Analysis Outcomes
- New Routes and Destinations
- Brief
- Programme
- Precedent: Open Air Cinema
- Precedent: PVR Saket Cinema and Market
- Cellular Morphology
- Cellular Morphology - types
- Routes and Destinations
- Development Sketches
- Development of Scheme
- Brick and Block Prototyping
- Arch Experiment
- Jali Wall Experimenting
Final Drawings
- Ground Floor Plan (line)
- Ground Floor Plan
- First Floor Plan
- Second Floor Plan
- Roof Plan
- Elevations 01 & 02
- Sections BB & DD
- Section AA
- Section CC
- Rupali’s Route
- Mrs Kumar’s Route
- Kiran’s Route
- Wahib’s Route
- Routes and Destinations
- Scheme Axo
Sadiqa Jabbar
01000566

A Marriage Made in a Factory

“Arrival of the Groom at the Palace”; Mandi, Punjab Hills, mid-17th century; Opaque watercolour on paper;
34x50cm
“The Wedding Ceremony”; Mandi, Punjab Hills, mid-17th century; Opaque watercolour on paper; “A Marriage Procession in a Bazaar”; Mandi, Punjab Hills, mid-17th century; Opaque watercolour on paper; 32x49cm
33.6x49.5cm
‘A Marriage Procession in a Bazaar’ is the first in a trilogy
of paintings narrating the wedding procession of a
princely bridegroom escorted by musicians, guards and
attendants through a bazaar street. The procession passes
into the public courtyard within the palace compunds,
and finally into the private rooms where the marriage
ceremony takes place. The story moves from right to left,
proceeding downhill to the palace and upwards into the
private celebratory rooms within the palace compound.
There is a strong sense of a place and a route. A series
of spaces are created through the horizontal layering
of activities across the canvas through a distorted
perspective. The artist uses the distortion to exaggerate
the hierarchical importance of a series of spaces from
public to private, indoors to outdoors, from upstairs to
Cultural Attributes Physical Attributes downstairs.
The Chosen Paintng
‘A Marriage Procession in a Bazaar’
A Marriage Made in a Factory

“A Marriage Procession in a Bazaar” Removing the hustle and bustle of the bazaar begins to identify the
individualistic qualities of each bazaar outlet
Musicians both A flame Men at front
on foot and Men and women
Groom’s thrower? bazaar facing
horse-back on separate roof
Lead elephant attendants roof terraces
The Groom terraces with some
with flag
interaction
marking the
start of the Musicians on
procession camel-back
Women huddled
in groups on
Commotion
roof terraces
in alleyway Women on roof
Guards with between men on terrace further
weapons ground and roof back from street,
surrounding terrace, one lady Private conversation
Ladies in the alleyway of one bowing before
groom also involved! between two women
Onlookers various generations from another Cow and
Guards at front within a courtyard, one
Guards protecting old lady to babe in arms sheep out in
of procession holding a baby
Flag bearers musicians with an the fields!
protecting the
lead elephant exchange between a
guard and musician
Removing the procession creates a more spacious feel to the painting The further removal of all the inhabitants of the painting highlights the
various spatial environments
Buildings Accessible
Accessible roof
Roof not beyond in the roof on double
terraces with view
accessible background block?
out to street
Women looking into
Women looking Shop assistants the street from roof Male customers
into the street standing within the terrace seated within
back of enclaves Man sitting in bazaar enclaves Wooden
through windows
tree! canopy
Otlas reducing to
Merchant paving level as
Shelving Raised floor Individual analysis
trading in Built-in enclaves hill rises
to display level further Removal of people to reveal the architectural qualities
enclaves/otlas Lower for displaying for goods
Otlas goods of the painting. First to go was the marriage procession,
otla level goods/lamps
Poor man then associations with the bazaar frontages and finally
asking for Ventilation all the ‘behind-the-scenes’ scenarios on the rooftops and
Accessible roof Accessible openings spaces beyond the bazaar.
Groups of men alms?
terraces with roof terraces
Poor man or wandering in
Particularly servant? ventilation openings This method of analysis revealed that there was more to
bazaar street
crowded the painting than meets the eye. For example, there is a
Male customers corner spice store located on the right end of the painting. This
sitting on otlas Rear doors to links the painting with the site selected within the curry
buildings factory (see pages further ahead).
The bazaar street, within the wider urban context, forms
a trade route to and from the key building for which
Alleyway leading Courtyards or Courtyard with Uncultivated land the town was formed. Suggesting that a sectional cut
Double storey
alleyways through Trees further stepped access to beyond town through the buildings and bazaar would reveal a more
building? to/from bazaar
buildings? enclose spaces raised platform boundaries complicated built environment than the one conveyed in
street
the painting.
Painting Analysis
‘A Marriage Procession in a Bazaar’
A Marriage Made in a Factory

Key ingredients in the formation of a Medieval Indian
settlement: Theoretical Indigenous Town
1. Location - a hill provides natural views and security, and nearby
river provides a water supply
2. Key building - fort, palace or religious complex Main shops & Well-off Residences Functional Zones:
3. A Gate - mark the entrance 1. Central business area
4. Wall - creating a secure compound 2. Light manufacture
5. People - merchants, traders start inhabiting in and around the Small lanes & Cul-de-sacs 3. Low-group housing
compound 4. Medium-group housing
6. Bazaars - main routes to the key building line with bazaars as Wall 5. Higher-group housing
more people start inhabiting; residential units above and behind
to accomodate families
7. Religious buildings - creating community groups Gates
8. Walled enclosures - small clusters form round new religious
buildings
9. Walled compound - creating a town within a large compound
wall for security
Lahore Old City, Punjab
Theoretical Anglicized Town
Main Road Functional Zones:
1. Central business area
2. Light manufacture
Wall 3. Low-group housing
4. Medium-group housing
5. Higher-group housing
7. Outer business area
8. Residential suburbs
9. Industrial area
Theoretical Colony Town - Grid Roads
City wall
Lahore Old City in the state of Punjab correlates with the bazaar in the painting, which is located
in the Punjab hills. The city comprises of a walled compound with 12 gates marking the axial
Gates routes through the city. Smaller streets grow out of the main axis creating cul-de-sac residential Roads Functional Zones:
units. The main roads are lined with bazaars that lead to the key architectural element - the fort. 1. Central business area
Bazaar routes
There are smaller buildings of interest dotted aroud the city but the main processional streets 2. Light manufacture
Shops / Main Road
Fort compound lead to the fort. 3. Low-group housing
4. Medium-group housing
Residences 5. Higher-group housing
7. Outer business area
8. Residential suburbs
9. Industrial area
Theoretical Colony Town - Radial Roads
Roads Functional Zones:
1. Central business area
Shops / Main Road 2. Light manufacture
3. Low-group housing
4. Medium-group housing
Residences 5. Higher-group housing
7. Outer business area
8. Residential suburbs
9. Industrial area
Further investigation into Indian settlements showed that
the bazaar route is fundemental in the formation of the
towns. The routes seem to be where all the activity takes
Based on the research article by Reeta Grewal ‘Urban Morphology Under places, the smaller roads leading to homes and institutes
Colonial Rule’ in ‘The City in Indian History’ by Indu Banga. become quieter corridors.
Bazaar in a Wider Context
‘A Marriage Procession in a Bazaar’
A Marriage Made in a Factory

The buildings in the foreground of the painting seem to create interesting spaces worth investigating further. Model diagram exploring the growth of the settlement using different building types; time based architecture.
One can predicted how far the buildings protude by looking at the light and shadow effects in the painting and
location of trees.
Bazaar frontage
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Each colour and number represents the distance of the building from the foreground; (1) is the closest and (6)
is the furthest.
Town building types
Back street
8
2
1 1 1 1 2
1
2 7 1 1
5
T
STREE
AR
HIGH
1 1 1 1 6
BAZA
1 8
3 4
4 1
9 2
8 2 Courtyard
Alley leading to buildings behind
main high street
Experiment Town
the
Series of small
courtyard spaces
Sketch plan predicting the layout of the buildings beyond the bazaar route
Town views Roof Terrace
Extrapolation
‘A Marriage Procession in a Bazaar’
A Marriage Made in a Factory

OSMap locating Hastingwood Trading Estate 1:10000 Mrs Gills Kitchen Factory Site Plan 1:500 Mrs Gills Kitchen Factory External Photo
Cooking
Packaging
Mrs Gills Curry Factory is located in Hastingwood Trading
Estate in the Lea Valley area in East London. The company
started off as a small family business which has grown into
a much larger manufacturing company. They produce
specialised meals for hospital patients with particular
food requirements.
The tour of the factory comprised of following the
sequence of activities that take place in the production of
the processed food.
Storage
Preparation
Staff begin their day in the office area where they sign in
and change into their factory overalls in the staff changing
rooms.
In the spice mixing room the ingredients for the food is
prepared using the spices stored within the rooms and
shelving.
Once mixed the mixes are placed in boxes and taken to
the kitchen. The food is then cooked and made ready for
packaging.
Once cooked the food is placed on an assembly line which
transports them into the area where workers are ready to
package them.
Administration Delivery After packing the food is then transported into the storage
area where they are date and batch labelled and stored in
the refridgerator ready for delivery to the client.
The process then begins again on a daily basis.
Everyday Life in a Curry Factory
Spice Mixing Delivering Goods
A Marriage Made in a Factory

1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Surplus Dry
Food Storage 7
6 5
Packaging
Store Laundry
First Floor Circulation Light Character Occuption
Tahera
Abdullah
Freezer
4
Spice Store
Spice
store and
mixing
3 1
Deliveries
Fridge
Spice Store Group site survey
2
Ground Floor Circulation Light Character Occuption
Site Analysis
Spice Mixing Delivering Goods
A Marriage Made in a Factory

Tahera – Assistant Chef / Assistant Tahera mixing spices in the spice Tahera documenting each bag of Tahera trying to lift a bag of rice Tahera calling out to Abdullah for a
Supervisor room spice mixes unsuccessfully knife and bowl
Pakistani Origin
No children
Lives 10 minute drive away from
factory
Worked here for 9 years – found job
via Job Centre
Work hours Monday-Fridays 7-3pm
- although it depends on how many
recipes and or preparations need to
be completed for the next day
Hair tied up in a single pony tail,
trainers and track suit trousers
Tahera’s areas of activity both on ground floor and mezzanine
Abdullah – Porter Abdullah lifting and organising the Abdullah labelling the crates of Abdullah storing the boxes into the Abdullah on his way to pass Tahera a
Has been working at the factory for boxes of packaged food boxes according to dates and sets fridge in order to keep the food in knife and bowl
10 years good condition
Comes in via bus from Walthamstow
at Tesco and works Monday-Friday.
Starts at 6am and usually works fro
8 or 9 hours a day depending on the
workload.
Is of Pakistani origin – he goes back
every 3 years or so and misses his
family.
Abdullah just came back from his
holidays.
He can cook and considers Mrs Gills
food not spicy enough for his taste! Abdullah’s areas of activity on ground floor only
The lunch breaks are varied for
workers so they overlap each other
rather than everyone stopping work
at the same time. He goes to eat
upstairs in the communal space near
the offices.
Correlation with the actions/spatial Women Men PART OF the Women Men PART OF the Women meeting Men meeting in Woman by herself Man on his own The only interaction between Tahera and Abdullah, and
location between men and women WATCHING the procession in the WATCHING the procession in the in PRIVATE PUBLIC CHOWK looking into the IN THE BAZAAR the men and women in the painting. Abdullah throws up
in the painting. procession via bazaar street procession via bazaar street COURTYARD bazaar street via a bowl to Tahera, while the women are bowing and veiling
rooftop terraces rooftop terraces ROOFTOP themselves to the men who are on a higher terrace - one
woman talks to the men
Tahera and Abdullah
Spice Mixing Delivering Goods
A Marriage Made in a Factory

Section AA Section BB
Narrative
Existing
Abdullah works labelling and organising delivered goods
and storing processed food, meanwhile the laundry lady Narrative
above does the washing.
Existing
Propositional Abdullah is moving boxes and packages around,
Tahera and Abdullah enter their new married home. organising the delivered and to be delivered goods.
A few years down the line they have children and in the Tahera is having trouble lifting a bag of rice.
hallway are bust getting the children ready for school.
Up on the terrace Tahera hangs up the washing Propositional
while Abdullah is walking to the workshop with his Abdulla forgot the keys to the workshop so asks Tahera to
wheelbarrow. throw it down from the terrace above.
Sections AA & BB
Spice Mixing Delivering Goods
A Marriage Made in a Factory

Narrative
Existing
Abdullah has gone upstairs to store some surplus packaging. Tahera
is gone back downstairs to continue mix ingredients for cooking.
Propositional
Tahera goes back to do the laundry after throwing Abduallah his
keys.Abdullah goes into his workshop to work on his project.
Later Tahera prepares food for dinner, while Abdulla has put on his
winter geasr as its become cold and the lawn needs mowing.
Section CC
Spice Mixing Delivering Goods
A Marriage Made in a Factory

3
1 2
Ground FLoor
First Floor Roof
1 2 3
Extrapolation
‘Seed of Inspiration’
A Marriage Made in a Factory

1
2
3
Inhabitation
‘Seed of Inspiration’
A Marriage Made in a Factory

Breaking Barriers Uniting People
Jagdamba Camp, South Delhi, India

Sheikh Sarai
Phase 1 Chirag Dilli
Water Water
Tower Treatment
Plant Horticulture
Naala
Police
Apeejay Garden Station Triveni Triveni
School Flats Complex
Lal Bahadur Shastri Marg
Triveni
JAGDAM DDA Flas
BA CAM
P
Road Greenview Greenview
DDA Flats DDA Flats
Khirk
i Main
Naala
i Main
Crematorium
Khirk
Road
Sheikh Sarai
Phase 2
Panchsheel
Naala
Vihar
Panchsheel
Panchsheel
Extension
Vihar
Khirki Village
Jagdamba Camp, Sheikh Sarai, South Delhi (1:5000) Jagdamba Camp and its peripheries(1:2500)
Residential Communities
The Site Culture Politics
Jagdamba Camp is located on a Lal Dora site in South There is a social hierarchy within India based on a caste The Government does not seem to be able to do anything
Delhi, India. The term literally translates as ‘red thread’. It system introduced as a judicial system in medieval India. for the inhabitants of Jagdamba. There are toilets and
means that no government has any jurisdiction over what Although it is now fading out in cities it is still an issue showers they provide for a fee but due to corruption many
can/cannot be built within the boundaries of the land, in many villages today. Now regarded as social class, do not use them. Politicians tend to rally support during
there are no limitations as to what and how one can build. differentiation between people is still a major issue within election periods, filling the residents with hope that
The variation in the quality of the buildings within the the city as many people regard Jagdamba residents with their living conditions will improve with the problems of
settlement and layers of narrow streets and overhanging disgust or pity. education, water and sanitation being resolved. However
balconies is a result of the lack of restrictions. There are most promises do not materialise as an educated and
approximately 6000 inhabitants within the camp, the Culturally there is a degree of division between men satisfied voter is more of a threat than an uneducated one
figures likely to rise further in the future. Firewood is and women. Men are commonly seen in the streets and who is in need. The more support one has the better the
stored on roofs which has resulted in fires within the bazaars, whether they are working or travelling to and fro. chances of staying in office.
camp a few times. However due to the density of the They are in the forefront of public spaces. Women tend
camp emergency access proves to be difficult. the density to be working ‘behind-the-scenes’. They are usually within The Delhi Development Agency (DDA) is responsible for
also has its own benefits as a stranger will find it hard to the house or as in Jagdamba within the streets directly any built schemes within the city, equivalent to the GLA in
orientate themselves within the streets of the camp. As outside their homes socialising with family, friends and London. All major pllanning issues go through the DDA.
there are only two entrances into and out of the camp neighbours. There is some relationship with inside-
any intruders will eventually be caught. outside, public-private spaces that could be genderised. The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) is the
government body equivalent to Local Authorities
In India public spaces are not used in the way they are in in London under whose jurisdiction Jagdamba and
Climate European countries. Rather than use a public square to neighouring slums in Ward 11 are under. The MCD is
meet and socialise, people tend to meet in each other’s responsible for the provision of the basic human rights;
India has three type of climate; summer, winter and houses, terraces or in the streets directly outside their water supply, sanitation, education, healthcare, food
monsoon. The summer draws very hot and humid homes. The public square is usually used for trade or supply and shelter. Jagdamba is a known squatting zone
Delhi (NTS) weather, when people tend to sleep outside on terraces thoroughfare. The square in India is not loved and nurtured under the MCD and it is this body that provides the camp
as homes become unbearable at night. This reduces the in the same way as they are in European countries. There with the fee-based toilets and showers and applies the
need for glazing and heating devices within buildings. seemed to be an attitude of ‘it doesn’t belong to us so rationing system for basic food.
The wall thicknesses of buildings are sifficient to provide why should we care?’
warmth during the winter months with shutters to draw People in Delhi may own land but are not allowed to build
out the cold. The monsoon lasts for 3-4 months per year Squatter settlements tend to form around areas with whatever they want. The DDA has reduced the number of
and brings along with it the risk of flooding in many areas convenient links to work and food. According to Dr Suri freehold properties within the last few years so much so
with inadequate drainage systems. whom I met in India with a group of students during our that it would be rare to find a freeholder.
field trip, they tend to be skill orientated. For example of
a group of people may tend to form due to shared skills Currently work is being undertaken to fill the Naala with
in pottery, weaving, masonry or tailoring. This group landfill commissioned by the DDA in preperation for the
gradually expands until it becomes a cluster or in time a construction of a new park, with exclusive access for the
small town. The difference with a squatter settlement is middle-class thus cutting off the Jagdamba and Waste
that the people tend to settle on land which is not theirs picker communities. Once again the ghost of the social
and therefore becomes illegal. There is legislation which class system re-emerges.
now allows some settlements to become legal, then
authorised if they are lucky. The people migrating tend to The construction work on the city’s metro system is also
be from villages coming to towns in the hope of finding underway in preparation for the City’s hosting of the 2010
work to provide an income for their families back home. Commonwealth Games.
Although there is a level of high adult illiteracy, within
Jagdamba skills such as metal work, blacksmith, carpenter,
masonry and tailoring are common.
India (NTS)
Introduction
Jagdamba Camp
Breaking Barriers Uniting People
Various

3
Police Station
4
4
5 3 Horticulture garden
6
5
1 2 Water Treatment Plant
10 (land used for informal
play)
6
9
7 Apeejay School
7
8
Crematorium
8
Laxmi Automobiles
9
Greenview DDA
Apartments
10
Waste pickers land
toward Naala
1 2
Outer Peripheries
Jagdamba Camp and Wider Context
Breaking Barriers Uniting People
1:1000

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Imagine a place where everyone appears to live in relative
harmony. A place where neighbours trust one another,
the entrances to dwellings remain open for people
to come and go. The streets are buzzing with various
activities; children noisily playing together in narrow
restricted alleys, women huddled in groups more often
than not gossiping, clusters of men partaking in much of
the same, and the sabsi, machli and kapre wallas making
their rounds. Only an occasional whirlwind disrupts their
otherwise mundane lives.
Walking through the narrow streets is an experience
which differs each time. The ground levels change as
does the atmosphere of music, laughter, conversations
and trade, which serves the community within, as well as
the area at large.
As one travels deeper into the settlement, the significance
of sanitation, sewage, healthcare and water supply
becomes increasingly apparent. The large open drains are
health and safety hazards with annual monsoon flooding
contaminating homes with raw sewage.
View from within
Jagdamba Camp
Breaking Barriers Uniting People
NTS

Route
Chowks
Walk through 1:1000
Physical Survey
Breaking Barriers Uniting People
1:500

Elevation 1
Plan
Elevation 2
West Jagdamba Entrance
Physical Survey
Breaking Barriers Uniting People

Plan
Elevation 2
Plan
West Jagdamba & Eastern break out
Physical Survey
Breaking Barriers Uniting People

Extent of chosen site
Khirki Main Road Elevation
Sketch looking south over site Sketch looking into unsused gated compound
LAxmi Automobiles Wastepicker slum Cardboard slum built over
route
Chosen Site
Physical Survey
Breaking Barriers Uniting People

Physical survey - pacing, photography & measuring
01 CAD mock up of my physical survey 02 Initial Google Earth trace 03 Fitting 01 with 02 04 Complete retrace of Google earth aerial
Physical survey - pacing, photography & measuring
05 Used previous survey undertaken by Nat and Chloe as a resource much like the British Ordenance Survey 06 After further exploration of google earth and reinstatement of elements of my initial survey 07 Looking again at previous levels survey and comparing it to mine
equivalent and overlaid it with my plan to create a more accurate ground plan of the waste picker slums the ground plan developed further
Physical survey - pacing, photography & measuring
Levels survey - pacing, photography & measuring
08 Tracing over previous survey 09 The site had changed since the previous students’ work so looked through my suvery notes 10 After various updates and adjustments, I settled for a workable version that I was satisfied
and photos to begin updating the levels and buildings around the site represented building elements as they stood during my site visits
Chosen Site
Physical Survey
Breaking Barriers Uniting People
NTS

Existing Site Plan
Physical Survey
Breaking Barriers Uniting People
1:500