The aim of this thesis is to design a sustainable city prototype with a new approach for a 100,000 residents in Delhi , India .This will give... Show moreThe aim of this thesis is to design a sustainable city prototype with a new approach for a 100,000 residents in Delhi , India .This will give the ‘Delhiites‘ ( as we love to call ourselves ) a chance to live on the water body in a sustainable environment. To create this sustainable environment, the first challenge was to understand the site conditions, followed with the issues on the site, concept of developing new cities, reinforcing old sustainable technologies, and merging with new technologies for a better environmental, social and economic balance. Being on a flood plain, Delhi’s beautiful Yamuna river bed, was never built before, may be ignoring the fact that structure engineering has done some marvels in the past. Thus, I took up this challenge of building a city prototype here. It is hopeful that the design, ideas and process could also be a framework to be applied on other undeveloped land for new cities particularly in India and helps us to provide the solution for any foreseen problems in city development beforehand. M.S. in Architecture, July 2013 Show less
