Global Housing Studio architecture students from TU Delft explored how the original concepts and ideas behind the design of Chandigarh (as a whole, at the neighborhood scale and individual housing units) could be redeveloped to accommodate the city’s current needs while remaining true to the specific qualities of the city’s unique character.

Students investigated 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.