This work investigates the social-economics mechanisms which led to the birth of the slums in Mumbai, as well as how they managed to get estabilished and grow in the territory.
It also elucidates their urban conformity, the social structure that sustains the communities and how it interferes with the architectural style, modeling the spaces according to their own needs while also attending the needs of the inhabitants.
An unique organism that comprises space-people-activity which allows the growth and the sustenance of one of the most poupulous cities in the world.
Social and urban ways get intimately connected, considering that one becomes the generator of the other.
Destroying the architecture of the slums means destroying the community, its possibility of survival and the balance that regulates this so complicated mechanism that still perfectly works.
(Arch. Viola sellerino)
