Mumbai Contra-CT Workshop report

Local contractors design their ideal Dharavi homes which are exhibited at Zaha Hadid's Maxxi in Rome. urbz produced illustrations, models and videos for an exhibition on the future of architecture. 

The homegrown neighbourhood is an expression of local organizational skills and maximum optimization of resources in the creation of built environments. In this series we attempt to understand its chief personnel, their tools and the processes involved in the making of such settlements.

How to provide housing for all classes of people who need it, taking their varied livelihoods  into account, while balancing their relative abilities to invest in housing? 

Study of the multifunctionality of houses in Sangam Gully through visuals

Based on a multi-year research with the Mobile Lives Forum on the linkages between Mumbai and Konkan villages this essay, first published in the magazine FuturArc, describes an Indian model of urbanization.

Tracing the history of the BDD chawls and what its location and typology mean for future development of the city. 

Issue 3 is out now! We open Pandora's box to discover the residents concerns.

An Insight into Dharavi and the Dharavi Redevelopment Project (DRP)