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Mumbai: Projects, Journals & Ideas

13 Projects 20 Journals 3 Publications

About Discussions Projects13 Journals20 Publications3

Mumbai presents distinct challenges and opportunities for architects and designers working within India's densest metropolitan area. Projects in this topic address the city's complex needs around housing, public spaces, infrastructure, and cultural memory.

The community explores Mumbai's vertical growth and high-density living solutions, waterfront redevelopment and public access to coastal areas, adaptive reuse of heritage structures, and architecture's role in documenting the city's social and emotional narratives.

Top contributors

UNI13 works

UNI Editorial4 works

Janavi Kangralkar2 works

Ashish Kelkar1 work

Sushmita Tripathi1 work

Kevin M1 work

Divya Rath1 work

Rutuja Badve1 work

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Rutuja

647

Lokansathi Local!

For the people, by the people

Sibin and 4 others

571

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.

Alankrita and 3 others

156

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!

Vishal and 4 others

133

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!

Sushmita

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

Akanksha

Apartments and Climate Adaptation in Mumbai

The thesis explores how Mumbai's DCRs affect climate adaptability in apartment housing. Through comparative building studies, it reveals the loss of spatial adaptability over time and proposes a climate-responsive redevelopment framework integrating adaptable housing, flood resilience, passive environmental design, and revised planning regulations.

Mayur

COASTAL CONFLUENCE

In the shifting tides of our time, where urban expansion often overpowers the gentle rhythms of nature, Coastal Confluence proposes an integrated approach to ecological restoration and sustainable development in the fragile Thane Creek region of Navi Mumbai. This thesis explores the vital role of mangrove ecosystems in mitigating coastal erosion.

Ritu and Nidgel

The Offline Den: Green + compact

We propose a self-sufficient house made from commonly available materials that can be located in an urban environment anywhere. Nano (compact) and Off-Grid (green) are not mutually exclusive in this design.

Ashish

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......

SHiBiLi

Re-Thinking the Vertical Living with Mumbai as context

As a fast developing nation, India has created immense opportunities and challenges to Re-think and Re-create places for man to inhabit. As the population increases, so does the need for living space. To meet the requirements for this population we need to conserve and preserve the existing land available, which will be still insufficient.

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UNI Editorial

publishedResults1 week ago

Re-Thinking the Vertical Living: A Mumbai Skyscraper Conceived as a Self-Sustaining Vertical Ecosystem

A thesis tower for Mumbai that stacks housing, offices, vertical farms and transit into one mixed-use ecosystem to spare the city's dwindling land.

Mumbai

WRI Mumbai

UNI Editorial

publishedResults1 week ago

Bollywood Heights: A Vertical Film City Rising from an Artificial Island in Mahim Bay

An undergraduate thesis stacks sound stages, studios, a museum and a hotel into a twin-core diagrid tower on an island that filters Mumbai's polluted bay.

Mumbai

Navi Mumbai

UNI Editorial

publishedResults1 week ago

Ageing in Place: Retrofitting Mumbai's Courtyard Neighbourhoods for Multi-Generational Care

Tejas Amrutkar threads lifts, ramps and distributed care units into existing Mumbai neighbourhoods so elders can grow old among familiar streets.

Ageing-Well Design

Senior Living

UNI

publishedReview5 months ago

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.

Mumbai

Navi Mumbai