Implementation
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Streets to Silos
Elangkumaran S | SAATH Charitable Foundation | CEPT University, Ahmedabad
Behrampura, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
The project proposes a system of rainwater harvesting techniques on an urban scale intervention that can promote water conservation and harvesting. Studies suggest that rainwater collection techniques have been successful in ways that can conserve water, increase groundwater aquifer levels, promote sanitation and have direct impacts on climate change effects that uplifts low income squatter settlements.
Wind Tower
Tutors: Catherine Desai, Melissa Smith, Kruti Shah
Students: Anagha Anand, Aneez Mohammed Kooliyattayil, Apoorva Bhamare, Chandra Shekar Subramanyam, Kunal Barve, Nessa Phillip, Sahil Gandhi, Samruddhi Dhawale, Vihaan Murthy
SAATH Charitable Foundation | Contractor | Urban Resilience Collaborative
Behrampura, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
This course offered students a hands-on opportunity to build and install a retrofit for a building in Behrampura, contributing to the broader study of urban resilience. The retrofit was based on learnings from design proposals from CEPT’s Resilience Thrift Studios conducted in 2023, 2024 and 2025 in conjunction with SAATH Charitable Trust and residents of Behrampura and Vatva. Students have fabricated a 1:1 prototype of a ventilation and light tower in CEPT workshops and then installed it on-site. Following installation, climatic sensors will be placed in the building to monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of the intervention over the next year. The project explores how design can offer simple, beautiful, and transformative solutions to complex, technical urban challenges.