REVIVING THE GHOST TOWN OF DHANUSHKODI

Undergraduate Thesis

Programmes - Healthcare centre, School + Vocational training, Panchayat Office, Grain store, Tourist Centre + Cyclone Shelter. Link to the entire presentation - https://youtu.be/s69IOtcMqT8

‘People want to belong to something and there is nothing more powerful than belonging in a community with a history, with a connectivity to an individual’s past’

This thesis thus looks at reviving the life of the inhabitants of Dhanushkodi, a town abandoned due to a cyclone 50 years back. It looked at answering whether in a world where technology is a part and parcel of life, can natural calamitiesbe the reason why a place is unused of left to be a ghost town? The design solution thus looks at functions that not only uplifts the socio – economic life of people in Dhanushkodi but also provides disaster resilience through constructive use of environment with local materials, in a manner that it is a testimony to its past and a constructive step towards its future, thus reviving the lost ‘IDENTITY’ of the present inhabitants.

Bengal

Indian ocean

1. Fishing Bay + living cluster A

2. Temporary School

3. Dilapidated ruins and shacks

4. Living cluster B

5. Arichal Munai, end of India

Waiting Pavilion