What's going on UERO?

Here are the projects that we are currently working on:

Great streets in Mumbai

We identified four popular streets in Mumbai and had our students on the streets to critically map them early May. Colaba Causeway, Crawford Market, Marine Drive and Flora Fountain have been our four sites of study and have been analysed in depth to understand the publicness of these spaces. We are now working on the final boards and a documentary film that will unveil the complexity of the fabric of the city of Mumbai!

Crawford Market -Sketch by Pranay

                                           

Colaba Causeway - Map by Gaurav

The final boards will be presented in a public space and will be open for discussion and critiques to initiate public participation in the design of our cities.

How to incorporate bylaws for vegetable farming in urban areas?

With Mumbai having the highest population density and very low per capita open space, creating alternative solutions for open spaces is an important concern. Vegetables today are grown in distant villages and transported to the cities and several agents are involved in the process thus creating a vast difference in the cost at which the vegetables were bought by the farmer and is being sold to the consumer. And also, for mass production of vegetables several chemicals are used and we don't really know what is in our food. Today, there is an awareness towards organic food and a parallel system for growing vegetables in urban areas like terraces and roof tops can be explored. This will also help in reducing the heat island created in cities and create open spaces that are immediately accessible.


Market square in a new town

The organic development of a market square in a planned new town of Navi Mumbai has been documented through a participatory approach. This formation of the urban plaza will be analyzed through different theoretical frameworks to understand in detail the humanizing factor of an urban space.

Art Installation on the site ( Sector 6 Plaza, C.B.D. Belapur)

Public Participation about the Proposed Design for C.B.D Belapur

Interactive Art on the Site

Understanding the real density of Mumbai

Four 1 sq km fabrics in the city of Mumbai have been identified to understand the densities and the diversity in building typologies. This approach has been adopted to explore the varieties of typologies, their respective densities and fabrics that make the city of Mumbai. Dadar and Abdul Rehman street are being considered as the first few cases for the study of density.

What should be the edge like along the Mangroves?

While Navi Mumbai is the largest planned city in the country, today it is constantly reclaiming mangroves and busy violating the public policies. So the Landscape Elective studio is currently researching on the threatened mangroves and others under threat. It will propose alternative approaches Policy level decisions and guidelines for for Mangrove Landscapes.

The Housing Studio - 4th Year Architectural Design Studio ( Ashlesha Kale and Team)

With rapid urbanization and constant migration from rural to peri urban and urban areas, the Gaothan in Karave is an example of the naturally existing blur between completely urbanized and areas under threat for urbanization. This case was taken up in the 4th Year Housing Studio of D.Y.Patil College of Architecture. The process of study and design solutions produced in the studio will be developed into a book to document the findings, research methodology and pedagogy in the studio.

Studio Work - Porus

Student Work - Porus

Chandivali lake edge at Bandra