Everyday life at the Institute for advanced architecture of Catalonia
Our site is a small fishing harbour located on one of the main tributaries running through Mahul on the east coast of Mumbai. The harbour lies on the fringe of the creek, which consists of a 32m wide waterway, a 15m wide intertidal zone linking to a mangrove zone of 15m behind which lies a [...]
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We identified our site as one of the main boulevards and promenades along the coastline of Mumbai. It is the Marina Drive – a 3 km long 6 lane boulevard and a pedestrian promenade along the sea front, that is part of the most attractive residential and catering facilities. There seemed to be a gap [...]
The intervention area of our group is the coastal zone of the Colada slum, within the Back Bay Reclamation Gulf. The main characteristic of this zone is the disconnection between the slum and the sea, which is being prevented by an intermediate mangrove belt. This has resulted to the ‘isolation’ of the slum inhabitants from the sea, [...]
BSSA-IAAC JOINT WORSHOP Sea Sand Structures, the workshop emphasizes the transition in topography and program as two crucial interrelated aspects at ´fringe´conditions. By focussing on this way of reading the site, the workshop will encourage ‘invention’ of new programs as a process of urban development as opposed to the techniques of working extremely with context [...]