Reclaim
- Mumbai Mixed Housing
2018, Competition entry
Juice-Shop Collective
Team members: Rohan Shetty, Kaja Delezuch, Alok Dsouza, Siddarth Jude, Sowmya Swaminathan
Today housing in Mumbai is obliged to transcend mere shelter into being the vehicle for change. The scarcity of resources and land forces a need for seeking such change by re-imagining affordable housing.
In a view of rapidly growing population and the limited availability of land within the city, any remaining open space is likely to be developed into a dense urban fabric. To counteract this trend, habitation is proposed over water instead of occupying land at the undeveloped northern tip of Worli Island. Reclaiming the sea for housing allows for the development of a series of open public spaces, promenades, green corridors and parks on the land. Additionally, using the existing infrastructure of the Sealink bridge, the embodied energy of the concrete megastructure is given an additional use of supporting habitation for around 6000 people.
The proposed basic structural framework relies on the self organising potential of the small industry and retail. The design allows for informal structural elements to inhabit and occupy the terraces providing a stage for a vibrant urban life to develop initiating the retrieval of cultural landscapes and mangrove coastlines.
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