PORTFOLIOIda wressel

1990-02-09

SELECTED WORK FROM THIRD YEAR Umeå School of Architecture.

> Bachelor project, Spring term 2015Water Wise, Dharavi, India

> Urban Variance, Fall term 2014 Notion of Belonging

(Projects based on mapping carried out in Dharavi, India.)Rothoffsvägen 37 B90342 UmeåT +72 -71 28881ida.wressel@hotmail.com

STUDIES

Degree of Bachelor of fine arts, Architecture program. June 2015. Umeå school of Architesture, Umeå University.

Erasmus studies, spring term 2014. Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura del Vallés, Barcelona, Spain.

Painting and drawing, Fall 2010Accademia D´Arte, Florens Italien

Naturvetenskapliga programmet, studentexamen 2009Falu Frigymnasium, Falun

Exchange student, 2007-2008Ursuline High School, Santa Rosa, CA, USA

WORK EXPERIENCE

Optician assistant, Speck savers Optik, Falun and Borlänge Fall 2011, Summer 2012 and 2013.

Waitress, Chalet Etoile, Cervinia ItalyWinter season 2011-2012

Travel Guide, Langley - Whistler representative. Whistler, Canada, winter season 2010-2011,

Waitress - Sindrestua Restaurant, Trysil, Norway, 2009-2010

Waitress - Banken Bar och Brasseri, Falun, 2007- 2010

Skyttepaviljongen Bagarstuga och café, Falun, 2010

QUARTER SCALE NETWORKSHierarchy of streets

Public Utilities

URBAN SCALE DHARAVI1.10 000

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Schools

Dhobi ghat units

Walk way bridge

Public Toilets

Temples

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Water wise Water awareness and education centre

For the benefit of the Dhobi Ghat community and the development of Dharavi.

The project aim to treat the water resource wisely and reach out to raise awareness on ways to improve routines in water treatments.

To achieve this the intention is to engage people on different levels toteach practical and theoretical ways to improve the water situation to let the space around the water source be a place to pause.

7 A.M.Household shores Municipal Water supply time- Every day storing water, washing, cleaningTemple gets morning visitors

9:00 A.M.Clothes collected from customers; dhobi women and children soak it in drumsPedestrians using the foot-over-bridge (predominant-ly school children and office goers)Market street gets busy

10:00 A.M.Clothes being washedPedestrians using the foot-over-bridgeMarket street gets busier

6:00 P.M.Resting time, women chat around the ghat

ACTIVITIES AND CIRCULATION AROUND THE DHOBI GHAT

HOUSING

COMMERCIAL

POLICE

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USERS• NGO run initiative • The community of Dhobi Ghat• School children • Visiting local groups of inteterst• Public by-passers

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WaterWalla “Clean water for all”:The NGO is committed to provid-ing access to clean water technol-ogies to slum residents through a sustainable and innovative blend of micro-entrepreneurship, high quality products and customer service, and investment/sub-sequent reinvestment in target

communities.

The Dhobi Ghat community:Dwellers who move and live around the ghat. The dwellers face the every day pedestrian traf-fic to and from Sion which affect their private sphere but is profita-ble for the commercial business

along the street.

The ”Dhobis”:The main users of the dhobi ghat. They have a old tradition of laundry work located in the ghat, washing laundry, suffering from the poor conditions of the water. Today only 5-7 families run the business of laundry, very few in comparison to the much more active business in

the past.Pedestrians:Moving through the site on their way to and from Dharavi, cross-ing the bridge over the train tracks, the boarder between Dharavi and the greater Mumbai. Among the pedestrians are school children liv-ing in Dharavi walking to and from the school on the other side of the bridge and news paper readers whom stop in the news paper stall

on their way through the site.

ACTIVITIES• Education on the water issue• Water filtering demostrations• Promotion of hygiene and filtering

equipments.

KEYWORDS• Education through interaction• Awarness throught shared knowledge• Public information hub

The Dhobi Ghat:The houses around the ghat, the water basin, are occupied by ap-proximately five dhobi families and families from Maharashtra. Nobody has a private toilet with-in the house in the dhobi ghat, so they all rely on public toilets close by (especially women and chil-

dren).

The daily routine of most women in Dharavi revolves around water supply which is usually only an hour per day available. On aver-age, fifteen families share a water pipe in the neighbourhood of dho-bi ghat. The footbridge over the railway has a steady pedestrade-trian traffic which is beneficial for the comercial face of the street but quite problematic in the way the flow of people make the street cramped and narrows the com-munities possibilities to expand their social sphere to the square.

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PROGRAMToilet and showers: 1. Washing/ showers and toilets2. Washing/ showers and toilets

3. Water Walla (NGO) Filter Shop: Selling filtering devices & water related products.

4. Workshop: Tools for the water tank

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PROGRAM 5. Laboratory + meeting room: Water quality testing from Dharavi and filtering developments.

6. Classroom: Cater for school classes/ groups of adults. 7. Show case & water tap: Demonstrating water filtering Snack-shop and reeding pockets

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First floor 1:200

Process model of intervention on site

Dharavi squatters settlement

The greater Mumbai

Final model of interventionSouth facing facade

Final model of interventionNorth facing facade

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Re-located Dwellings ClassroomMale toilet and showers

Meeting room Filtering equipments and tools

Temple Housing

Rail way Dhobi Ghat water basin Housing Water Walla shop Information Hub

Womens toilet and showers

Water Laboratory and meeting room

Filtering equipments and tools

The new infrastructure of the bridge holds the projects

The space under the bridge is left open to reinforce the

connection between the ghat and the open square

Water Laboratory and meeting room

Filtering equipments and tools

Rail wayInformation Hub

Womens toilet and showers

Commerce/ Housing

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Climate response Natural ventilation through the upper

50 cm brick layer. Main wind direction south-west

Light throught a semi open brick facadeStructural concept

One layer brick wall0.1 m

Load bearing concrete pillar 6 m

Classroom Dhobi Ghat

View point from bridge

Laboratory

Workshop/tools

Classroom

Male Toilet

Drinking water give out

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Notion of belonging Mapping of Matunga Labour camp, Dharavi, India

What traces can be found when searching for the notion of belonging in the streets of Matunga Labour camp?

MUMBAI, INDIA DHARAVI MATUNGA LABOUR CAMP

During a monthly visit in India, most of the time spent in Dharavi, we had the opportunity to experience the place from within. A fascinating journey that challanges the pre-consived ways and values of how we define space. Both in the sense of the built form but fore most the way the col-lective shape the public and private. Perhaps the private merelyexist in this context but there is moore of common space and coexistance. A space transform during the day and perfomrs to suit the needs of the changes in activity

over time.

Today, Dharavi occupies a 175-hectare area. The offi-cial population is approximately 600,000 people (2001 census) but organizations and researchers working on Dharavi estimate that number to be at least one million individuals, or close to 100,000 families, with an aver-age population density of 350,000 habitants per km2 and one toilet per 1,440 people. Despite the unifying name “Dharavi,” the zone that it designates is a juxtaposition of neighborhoods with their own distinct character that was shaped by the various waves of migrants that came from the four corners of rural India. The first to settle in the area were the Koli, a community of fishermen whose presence has been visible for centuries in Mahim Creek, located along the Mithi River, which is situated on the northern boundary of Dharavi. In the past, the area over which the

slum now spreads out was marshland.

Dharavi also stands out for its bustling informal economic ac-tivity in small-scale industry and handicrafts. Unlike Mumbai’s other slums, where a large majority of inhabitants work out-side their place of residence, 80% of Dharavi’s residents also work there. In this way, Dharavi is also a full-fledged industrial area, with an estimated 400 million euros in turnover. A study by the SPARC (Society for the Promotion of Area Resource Centres) estimates that Dharavi has 4,902 production facili-ties, with 1,036 in textiles, 932 in pottery, 567 in the leather, 722 in recycling and scrap metal, 498 in embroidery and 152 in food. Furthermore, there are 111 restaurants and several

thousand boutiques in Dharavi.

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The doors are always open and the door step just outside is called the “Otla” on which the ladies are sitting. The plinth has an very essential role in the daily life of Dharavi. It is the edge between the home and the street the threshold that may hold a conversation, shores, playing or just watching the people passing

by while sipping on a cup of chai.

The street is cramped as the group of people around the food stand grows. The social event around the eating is suddenly blocking the movement for the by passers. Even if not every one who stops is a customer to the food stand, the social attraction are around it is suddenly primary to the efficiency of passing

through.

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Seven o clock in the morning entering the street, around 40 men are drinking chai along the street gathered around the walls, sitting on the plints that goes along the edges of the houses. The shops are closed and they are leaning against the closed doors. A gruop of boys are gathered around a fire in the open courtyard. Women and children are sleepin in the sheds, a man crawls out joining the other men drinking chai and talking. The women stay around their home, cambing their

hair and start preparing the food. The street is waking up...

After walking the same street for days up and down, I start to rec-ognize people in the area and I can see patterns of behaviours. While starting to draw the out-lines, the colours and the activ-ities that add to the story of the peoples daily life some situations become more talkative than oth-

ers.

By focusing on the same situa-tion, observed over time, I try to capture the movement and the moment. The objects in relation to the human body, the proportions of the street and the way people

inhabit the space.

While I am drawing, the old man sitting in front of his home is watching. We do not speak the same language, but when I show my drawing he is adding the num-bers of the houses very precisely

on the paper.

The woman is sitting on the doorstep, she is observ-ing every one passing including myself, I can feel her eyes asking what kind of stranger am I walking in the

street of her neighbourhood

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The nodes where the street open up have rounded corners. The man resting on the edge seems to find comfort as he is taking a nap.

The men occupying the plinth in front of the house have taken their shoes off as if they entered an inside

of the public room.

I step in to the neighborhood of Matunga Labour camp from the junc-tion, 90 feet road and 60 feet road. As soon as I enter, the sound from traffic decreases, the street is covered with a roof shading the activ-ities around me. A group of men are sitting on a wagon eating the food prepared in a stand on the other side. A women is making flower decorations in fort go the big Temple, besides is a motorcycle park-ing for a school. A group of children in uniforms passes me, laughing shouting, waving hands. It is a steady strem of people moving along. Motorbikes passes, goods are carried on the heads of the women on

their way to the market.

The man resting on the tiny edge of the wall is in company of a group of

children playing cricket.