8.1] Design Intent

8.1 Design Intent

The problems and inferences mentioned above as a part of the research conclusions are mostly seen for all the individually redeveloped high-rise buildings in the island city. These issues and problems are majorly faced by the users who have been subjected to the redevelopment proposal like the existing shop owners, residents etc. who are shifted from a low-rise community neighbourhood to individual isolated flats of the high rise redeveloped buildings. These problems have directed to select the cluster redevelopment scheme as an intention for the design proposal of this dissertation.

Redevelopment is required since every building has a built-in shelf life after which it becomes difficult or hazardous to live in. The aim of this design project would be to re-imagine the redevelopment of old buildings happening in cities like Mumbai. To understand the drawbacks of existing individual redeveloped buildings and understand the problems faced by the people being rehabilitated in such buildings. The design will offer bigger apartments to the old tenants and also along with their residential apartments, recreational facilities and amenities to the people living there. The intention of this design is to propose self-sustainable high rise buildings which will be the future of cities.

The lateral transition from a highly interactive and human sized low rise to a socially isolated no scale high rise, community gardens, sky bridges, and other amenities supplied at various levels have become a grand narrative type solution to this challenge in a redevelopment project. But do these spaces work in an Indian context, where anything outside the threshold of one's house, be it corridors, roads, or parks, is considered outside our personal “to illustrate this with an example, during my research I questioned how many middle-aged people would go for a family/friends dining in their building garden, and the answer was as low as 4 5.

These places also become unproductive since no one wants their balconies to face these areas, and no one who uses these spaces wants to look out at residents while resting. Making these places is not just taxing for the developer, but it also means providing areas that aren't being used to their full potential.