Project by Neha Sarah Abraham, Ridhi Sawhney
Many projects are framed around a distant end goal; our proposal instead foregrounds what can be enacted in the present, drawing on existing resources and local skills. It envisions a link between the permanent and the adaptable. Sited beside a major cement factory, it proposes multifamily housing for laborers with the intention that this model can eventually extend to the broader community and push the design to mediate between urban density and rural edges. Using carbon-captured concrete and untreated–unsorted bamboo, the project forms a permanent carbon center around which modular units plug in and out over time. Each module is designed to incentivize community participation in its cyclical structural bamboo replacement, keeping the system regenerative and positioning relationships and carbon at the core.
