How to build with time? | Learning from Bimanagar, its inhabitants, and BV Doshi

Survey data and interview transcripts from a study of Bimanagar Housing Estate in Ahmedabad, India. Bimanagar, also referred to as LIC Housing was financed by the Life Insurance Company, designed by the architect BV Doshi and built in 1985. Since then it has been incrementally and at times radically transformed by inhabitants. The study discusses Bimanagar in its historical and epistemological context, its relevance for architecture, housing and urban studies. The field research identifies and analyses patterns of transformation in relation to their underpinning personal, social and spatial motivations and discusses their evolving dynamics.

Dataset

Interviews, Own Creation

Indexing

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