Deliberating Old Housing Stock

Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh apartment typology apartment typology

In major port towns around India, an ever-changing cityscape has been inevitable. In the context of Vizag as a naval town hosting the largest railway station under the East Coast Railway, certain pockets of the city haven’t developed as organically as the rest of the city around them, in the last 70 years. The settlement of Railway Quarters, Visakhapatnam has given its land to overgrown weeds and dilapidated houses. The already less dense area has a lesser human presence in the colony. The aim behind the project is to propose a pattern of urban inserts and redensification on a land with builtforms dating back to the 1950’s.

Of Land or Water?

R-ward, Borivali, Mumbai

Collaborators: a15 batch,SEA (role in the project: phase planning and built form strategies)

Mentors: Ravindra Punde, Komal Gopwani, Vastavikta Bhagat, Abhijit Ekbote

This study is an inquiry into flooding and the rising sea level’s impact on Mumbai’s habitability. It is set in the context of the prevalent discussion on climate crisis and its repercussions on everyday life. In the country itself there are various irregularities in weather patterns. Set in the northern suburbs of Mumbai, the took place by investigating the practices and impacts of floods on the everyday life of the local residents. By understanding watershed boundaries in relation to the administrative boundaries, the study was carried out in two phases. Starting by mapping the site using tools like GIS data, fieldwork verification, detailed analysis and stakeholder narratives, policy implementations it went ahead to generate a vulnerability map for 2050 for multiple measures of heavy rainfall coupled with high tide to identify which are the areas that would be vulnerable or even completely submerged.

Aim : To make a city resilient to flooding