The Neighbourhood Project – G-South Ward, Mumbai (collaboratively taken up with AOA, URP and G5A), Sem I, 2013 Project Site: The G-South Ward is one of the fastest transforming places in Mumbai, where the industrial past of the city is hurriedly being replaced by up-market houses, swanky offices, flashy malls, and glamorous cultural spaces. The ward is bound by the Arabian Sea on the west, the Central Railway tracks on the east, the Race Course on the south and the industrial area of Parel in the north. It houses several neighborhoods – the Worli Fishing Village, the BDD Chawls, the elite neighborhood of Worli and the industrial neighborhoods of Parel. It also has significant urban spaces that are important at the city level – the Worli Sea-face, six railway stations (Elphinstone Road, Lower Parel, Mahalaxmi, Parel, Curry Road and Chinchpokli), the Race Course, the Haji Ali Durgah, Nehru Science Centre and Planetarium, etc. Objectives: Students in groups of 5 each are required to select a patch of 10 hectares, which will include a residential neighborhood and open green spaces within 500 m of the high tide line in G-South Ward. The students will study the area with respect to the Development Control Legislations and building byelaws, permissible activities in CRZ designated areas and any other proposed development projects. Each group will then evolve their design brief and propose a design for the area/ public space focusing on environmental design and this should include: a. Improving walkability b. Designing climate sensitive architecture c. Considering water and waste management d. Any other environment improvement pertinent to site chosen (such as reduction of noise pollution or any other pollution remediation) The aim for each group will also be to evolve a viable project with a budget that could be proposed as a project for the MMR Environment Improvement Society. Rachana Sansad’s Institute of Environmental Architecture
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