Mumbai Local
Design and planning projects exploring Mumbai's local communities, infrastructure, and urban fabric.
ALAWABBAD
ALAWABBAD is an aim to decongest and improve safety of Mumbai suburban railway network with a strategic approach of incrementation in tired and tested current system and integrate a new system which could cater substantial number of betwixt commuters.
Kripya Dhyan Dijiye
Kripya Dhyan Dijiya is a holistic and rational approach in the rethinking of an integrated and transit oriented development for Mumbai. In order to address this, the project focussed on a consortium of stakeholders (transport board), integration and digitalisation of transport variables and active citizen participation. Public transport is one system now!
Redevelopment of Sassoon Docks, Colaba, Mumbai
The design proposal for the fishing harbor at Sassoon Docks is multi-dimensional. It focuses not only on the modernization of the fishing industry but also on the requirement of the city for more open public spaces. The master planning aims to establish a fully integrated fishing harbor along with a ten-acre expanse crafted for the public in a congested city
INDI GENIUS
Tomorrow with Hyperloop we'll travel from cities in minutes but for us the critical standpoint is that it is even more to create strong engaging connections to the 'local' - people, places, memories, landscape. So, we have tried to reinforce the local mobility systems - local train & auto rickshaw ; and the local urbanity - create East West city links.
Encounters with the City: Transit Beyond Efficiency
This thesis, Transit Beyond Efficiency: Encounters with the City, investigates the complexities of transit in Mumbai through the lens of scale, movement, and lived experience, focusing on the relationships between transit hubs and commercial districts. The research stems from the need to question efficiency-driven urban planning that privileges vehicles and large-scale infrastructure over pedestrian inclusivity and commuter experience. Using a mixed methodology of mapping studies, commuter surveys, personal observations, and case studies of Churchgate, Lower Parel, and Bandra, the thesis reveals stark contrasts in how different transit hubs have evolved and how these differences shape the daily lives of commuters. The findings highlight that while Churchgate and Lower Parel benefit from organically developed systems, Bandra and BKC expose a mismatch between imagined urban visions and lived realities, resulting in disconnection, alienation, and infrastructural inadequacy. The outcome underscores the importance of rethinking transit infrastructure and allied systems through human scale and inclusivity, setting the stage for interventions that reframe BKC as an accessible and empathetic business district rather than a detached corporate enclave.
Re-Thinking the Vertical Living: Sustainable High-Rise Architecture in Mumbai
Reimagining vertical living in Mumbai through sustainable high-rise architecture that integrates ecology, density, and future urban growth.
Lifeline Underground.....
Mumbai local train service is the life line of this city carrying almost half of the city to their work places every day. To address the ever-increasing crisis of the fatal accidents due to overcrowding in the local trains it is Lifeline underground......
THE THREE PLANES OF RESURRECTION
The intervention acts as an antidote to the never-ending rush hour and congestion of the city. It makes the ultimate use of the limits by dividing it in three vertical planes to give a new system that solves this city's problem. Using two modes of transport amalgamating and not competing utilizing the under space for economic benefits and resurrecting it.
THE SILA : CONNECTING THE CITY
THIS PROJECTS CONNECTS ALL THE MODES OF COMMUTE FOR THE BETTERMENT OF PEOPLE IN 2030.THE INCREASING POPULATION OF MUMBAI IS THE MAJOR PROBLEM, TO FACE IT WE CAN DESIGN AN APPROACH TO OVERCOME A BASIC NEED FOR COMMUTE.THE DESIGN INCLUDES THE CURRENT NETWORK WITH MODIFICATION AND FEW OF THE FUTURE PROJECTS THAT WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE NEAR FUTURE.
The Big Green Foot
The thought about stepping my foot into this city crammed with people and vehicles torments me every day and night bringing chills through my spine. One step towards a better place to live in is what i'm asking for; One step for a place with fresh air to breathe in; One big green step for a better city to live in. I call this step as my big green foot!
The HyperLO(KAL) - Mumbai
For a city stretched to its seams, dealing with increasing population density, along with aspirational hangover, it is impossible to solve the Mumbai transport problem by a single approach. An overlay of all the forces, tangible-intangible, subtle-visible, of very much of psyche of Mumbai itself, rather than solutions from other countries and context.
Meet in the Middle
Meet in the Middle is a 3 component strategy that provides a bridge between stations and communities, between people and public facilities and between the heart and the suburbs of Mumbai. We offer a low-scale, accessible and soft mobility-oriented network that both improves mobility and alleviates the existing road system.
AEROLOCAL
AEROLOCAL Project is a well-planned mass transit design for the city &for its people. The project uses the 3S Gondola System creating a parallel railway exactly on top of it without disturbing its current operations. It would positively impact the local railways & outstation trains. Phase 2 helps passengers to reach station on time, decongesting the roads.
LOCALS WITH LOCALITY
Crowd brings suffocation and dispersing the crowd brings a breath of fresh air. This concept is used to make existing system of Mumbai local breathe. Interventions like multiple levels of network, pedestrianization, ToD, use of ITS are made to achieve the perceived development. With this conglomeration of ideas, re-generation of local by 2030 is proposed.
Redevelopment of Sassoon Docks: A Working Harbor Reimagined as Public Waterfront
Sushmita Tripathi's master plan transforms 20 acres of Mumbai's oldest fishing harbor into a dual precinct of industry and civic life.
Kripya Dhyan Dijiye: Rethinking Mumbai's Urban Fabric Through Synchronized Transit
A transit-oriented development strategy that reimagines Mumbai as a circuit of connected nodes, aligning mobility architecture with digital systems by 2030
Urban Embroidery: Stitching Mumbai's Fragmented Transit into a Living Network
A multi-scalar mobility framework reconnects metro, rail, and BRT through green corridors and reimagined public spaces at Andheri Station.
The HyperLO(KAL) Mumbai: Layered Mobility as Urban Architecture
A multi-level transport framework weaves cycling corridors, suspended walkways, and shuttle systems into Mumbai's congested fabric.
A City Knit & Fit: Turning Mumbai's Railways into Living Infrastructure
A proposal to transform over 100 hectares of Mumbai's rail corridors into layered systems of housing, water management, and green mobility.
