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R. Varma
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Building adequate housing is a pressing issue worldwide. With close to a billion people currently living in slums, accommodating a growing population, and improving dwelling conditions is a critical issue for society.
This challenge cannot be solved with a one-size-fits-all appr
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Living Ideals
Designs for Housing by Charles Correa
Charles Correa (1930-2015) was arguably one of the most important and influential Indian architects to have worked post-Independence. As an architect, planner, activist and theoretician, he realized an extensive oeuvre, both built and unbuilt, in drawings and in writings. With th
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Contributed
Urban Gender Journey
A Gender-Based Approach to Affordable Urban Housing Design in Sylhet, Bangladesh
Housing for the Women of Haors
Imagining an alternate feminist future to increase women's access to resources
Inclusive Waters
Investigating the Catalyst Role of Urban Ponds in Mitigating Housing Challenges Amidst Rapid Urbanization in Sylhet
Rapid urbanization in Sylhet, a growing second-tier city in Bangladesh, has led to significant environmental and social challenges. With a population of nearly 3 million and an area of 26.50 square kilometers, Sylhet faces increased building density, improper waste management, an
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The Dichotomy of Riverbanks
Paradox of wasted landscapes and housing redevelopment
In recent decades, Bangladesh has been facing a rapid spread of urbanization with significant growth of its population. This phenomenon has impacted the housing situation in metropolitan regions, leading to a surge in informal housing, overcrowding, and the establishment and expa
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Transition
A sustainable blueprint for Bolawaras urban evolution
Bangladesh, characterized by its flat landscape and the dynamic Ganges Delta, faces severe climate change impacts, including devastating floods that threaten livelihoods and biodiversity. Urban expansion, particularly in cities like Sylhet, exacerbates environmental degradation,
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This thesis explores the pivotal role of women in the urban development of Sylhet, a city in the northeast of Bangladesh. It focuses on their participation in the planning and organizing a new urban project near a pond in an area characterized by diverse income levels and religio
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Housing for Community
Re-imagining co-housing in the age of neo-liberalism
Co-housing project and development scheme for Nala Sopara
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 int ...
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 int ...
Exhibition 2 February – 30 March 2018, Art Entrance Gallery, Mumbai, India@en
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
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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
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In between "handshakes"
A critical demolition as a redevelopment strategy
The project itself work as a conclusion of the research and design balance. After several improvements, now it puts in discussion the outcomes of the housing redevelopment strategy. Instead of offering a different alternative to the existing redevelopment trend, it raises questio
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Blurred boundaries
The Reintroduction Of Hierarchical Spaces In The Baithi Chawls Of Mumbai
India is the second most populated country in the world, counting for over 1,3 billion people, a number that is rapidly increasing. In line with the rest of the world, India is, next to its increase in population, seeing a rapid urbanization, with Mumbai in the centre of it all.
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Leaving space
An alternative for the chawl redevelopment in Nala Sopara
In Nala Sopara, In the Mumbai metropolitan region, we can find many one-story dwelling blocks called ‘baithi chawls’. Due to the increasing demand for housing in this area, the developers have shifted their focus to the build of four to five-story chawls. We can distinguish two f
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In the next three decades, the lanet’s rate of urbanization will increase at a fast rate, adding 2,5 billion new dwellers to the current urban o ulation. To accom¬modate this demogra hic growth, the world needs to tackle the many challenges of sustainable and fair urban develo
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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 exis
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Exhibition Building on Ideas: Charles Correa's Housing Projects
From 12 till 23 June, the exhibition 'Building on Ideas: Charles Correa's Built and Un-built Housing Projects' will be on show in the BK Expo
Charles Correa
Over the course of his 50 year career, Charles Correa realized an impressive number of important and influential projects in and outside his native country India. However, alongside his cultural and other institutional work, housing, and especially housing for the
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