Global Housing Studio architecture students from TU Delft explore how the original concepts and ideas behind the design of Chandigarh (as a whole, at the neighborhood scale and individual housing units) can be redeveloped to accommodate the city’s current needs while remaining true to the specific qualities of the city’s unique character. Between March 18 - 22, 10 TU Delft students and 15 students from the Chandigarh College of Architecture will begin their fieldwork with a workshop in Chandigarh.

Students investigate 5 sectors from different periods of time: sector 7 (part of the first phase, which consists of the realization of sectors 1 – 30 during the period 1951 – 1965), sector 37 (part of the second phase, which started in 1966 and consists of the realization of sectors 31 – 47), urban village Burail in Sector 45 (the third phase consists of the realization of sectors 48 – 56 which maintained four villages: Burail, Badheri, Buterla and Attawa), sector 64 and sector 99 in Mohali.