About "Inclusive Environments"

This is an archived project :
Lakshmi S's Masters' Thesis for the academic year 2016-17,
for the MA in Architectural Design (MAAD) program,
The University of Sheffield.
The MRTS or the Mass Rapid Transport System in Chennai was started as an ambitious project about 40 years ago. While the train lines are still up and running from day to day (with only 25% of the projected number of people using them), the condition of the MRTS stations are very close to pathetic. Due to large initial investment of capital, lack of good design and no maintenance efforts, they have turned into vast vacant spaces that exclude a large portion of the society due to their lack of facilities for the disabled, unhygienic public toilet facilities and lack of safety after dark.

For my thesis, I intend to use the Kasturbai MRTS station as a medium of access (i.e. tool) to address :

• How can stationary public transport infrastructure (the stations) exclude people and create their own system of privilege?

• How do they shape the way a city is accessed?

• How can they be used as critical nodes of intervention to make the city more inclusive?

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