See the Final Presentations 2010

"Homeless Tower" by Nashrah Noor and Amee Sonani, providing a basic level of residential space and facility for some of the approximately 100,000 homeless people living on the streets of Mumbai.  

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.