Inclusive interiorities: A focus on women; towards more inclusive designs

Beyond live and work: Development of affordable housing integrated with income generation activities in Nalasopara, Mumbai

In recent years, the global urbanization have been developing in rapid steps. An additional 2.5 billion people are predicted to live in the cities in the following 30 years. How to provide housing for such a huge urban population and how to steadily promote the sustainable development of urbanization will be the challenges facing the world. All...

Dry Feet

The growing population in urban areas around the world puts tremendous stress on natural resources. In India, the urban population has increased form 18 percent to 34 percent of the total population between 1960 and 2017 and is expected to exceed the rural population at the end of 2040. The growing urban population will putt stress on the...

A higher sense of place: A people focussed alternative for affordable dense redevelopment

Decent, affordable housing is fundamental to the health and well-being of people and to the smooth functioning of economies. Yet especially Mumbai is struggling to meet those needs. Approximately half the population (over 6 million people) live in slums or slum-like dwellings, deplorable conditions where people suffer from one or more of the...

Back to the ground life: Reconsidering the shift of living conditions for urban poor during the chawl redevelopment in Mumbai

Mumbai has seen the rapid urbanization in recent years. A large influx of migrants look for business and employee opportunities in the city, which led to the issue of over-population. It is estimated that there is a population of more than 21 million in Mumbai in 2018, while over 40 percent of people live in the informal settlements in extremely...

Place for Prosperity: fostering environments for children

The first interactions of the child with its environment can already have long-lasting impacts on its worldview (weltanschauung) and psychoanalytical state. This makes the architecture of housing, especially in poor regions, such as Nalasopara in Mumbai, a critical key point for the development of the next generations. However, after the...

Housing for Community: Re-imagining co-housing in the age of neo-liberalism

Co-housing project and development scheme for Nala Sopara <br/>The main objective behind this project is to explore potential solutions to the housing problem in Mumbai. To achieve this objective, I have developed a structured approach. This will consist of extensive research into the nature of the problem at every level. These ‘levels’ consist...

A Place for Informality: Designing cities for the informal using formal market driven systems

One of the most striking things bout the city of Mumbai, and more specifically Nalasopara, is the conflict visible between the formal and informal natures of the city. In a city where informal work and precarious lifestyles, are becoming ever more common, with currently 81% of india’s ecmonmy in the informal sector, the systems used to house...

Housing Humanity, Building Locality: Endemic habitation practices driving the reconstruction of a coherent urban locality

The effects of India’s shift towards economic liberalisation, globalisation and privatisation in the mid 1990’s has drastically altered the landscape of its cities. These powerful forces have imposed further spatial disjuncture on an unplanned city. More specifically, forces of contemporary urbanisation plague the developing fabric of Mumbai’s...

A productive neighbourhood: Economic activity as a driver for sustainable development

The study aims to investigate humane housing solutions for rapid urbanisation happening all over the globe, specifically engaging with the case of Nalasopara, Mumbai, taking into account issues of density, affordability, economic development, gender and participation.

A Collection of Follies: Five Notes on the Irish Landscape

When one thinks about Ireland, its landscape comes immediately to mind. The variety seen in vegetation, topography, colors and textures, combined with the low demographic density verified in the majority of its territory, consolidates the image of the island as a rich collection of natural scenarios. However, beyond its beauty, the same...

Vertical Mumbai: Development of qualitative social housing in a highly dense city

In the past decades Mumbai has experienced a huge increase of citizens who, drawn by the economic opportunities of the big city, come to Mumbai for chances of a better life. The city is struggling with the effects that this has on the city. A big part of its population reside in informal settlements, living under impoverished circumstances. This...

Transit City

One of the cities where the rapid urbanisation of the global south is most eminent is Mumbai, the economic capital of India. Due to a rising economy over the last century millions of people migrated to the city. This urbanisation led to an enormous density and therefore prices of land exploded in the inner city. Due to its physical constrains –...

Open Building Approach Toward Inclusive Urban Space

Squatter settlements in a large percentage of the city are due to growing population and urban migration. To tackle this problem in India, Upgrading and Redevelopment have been two broad approaches with their own advocates. Assuming in-situ redevelopment as the most relevant existing approach to face slum settlements, it has caused additional...

A symbiotic relationship between LIVING and DENSITY: densifying and upgrading city center of Addis Ababa with open-to-sky spaces

A fruitful border: How can an affordable housing scheme in Addis Ababa be an open border that generates economic and social exchange?

How can an affordable housing scheme in Addis Ababa be an open border that generates economic and social exchange? And how can this scheme respond to the topography and the future plans of the government?<br/>The design of an affordable housing scheme which integrates social and economic exchange of the residents but also the city dwellers.