The Remaking of Mumbai

Mumbai, India  |  2009

See the Student Work Published in the CTBUH Journal 2010 Issue I

 

The final scheme as designed, with each student group working on a different tower within the collective urban vision. Project by Ketki Bhadkamkar, Pallavi Bondre, Prajakta Girkar,
Harshavardhan Jatkar, Swapnil Kangankar, Apeksha Kore, Bharat Lohar, Darshan Maru, Amey Panchal, Anuja Panchal, Pooja Parchure, Dwitiya Patil, Sonam Patil, Priyanka Raut,
Vaibhav Shelar, Sayali Shringarpure, Priyanka Talreja, and Neha Therade.


For two years running, the studio traveled to Mumbai and worked with the community-based Remaking of Mumbai Federation (RoMF). The project was based on the very real situation that is the C-ward district of Mumbai – a dense, historic district that had seen no investment and is largely dilapidated. RoMF, a private/community-based organization in Mumbai, had been established with the sole aim of improving the urban standards of Mumbai, with a focus on the C-ward. The students developed a collective urban vision for how the C-ward could develop a vertical urbanism, whilst bringing the social and cultural aspects that make that area unique—as well as a better quality of life—up in to the sky. Each student pairing then worked up a detailed design of a skyscraper within the cluster/collective urban vision.