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Feb 03 2022

Ranwar - Mumbai's Homegrown Urban Village

A preliminary exploration of Ranwar village, Bandra, one more example of the diverse habitats and typologies that make up the metropolis.

art
architecture
urban village
urban design
street
mumbai
arts of mumbai
workshop flyer with drawing by Yona Friedman showing a man with a plan in his hand, which reads "no plan"
Jul 29 2020

Open, participatory, explosive city

Workshop at the Geneva Sculpturegarden Biennale around Yona Friedman's "Museum without building".

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yonafriedman
participation
architecture
planning
Jan 21 2019

Doors of Koliwada

Exploring the visual anatomy of Dharavi's fishing village

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#urbz_neighborhood
#urbz_architecture
koliwada
architecture
visual anatomy
dharavi
vernacular architecture
typology
Jan 11 2019

Colours of Koliwada

Exploring the visual anatomy of Dharavi's fishing village.

#urbz_dharavi
#urbz_neighborhood
#urbz_architecture
koliwada
architecture
visual anatomy
dharavi
vernacular architecture
typology
koliwada charcha
Koli Jamat Community Hall
Nov 16 2018

The Making of the Koli Jamat Community Hall

urbz was involved in the design of a new community building in Dharavi.

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koliwada
architecture
dharavi
design
#dharavi
urbanism
mumbai
#homegrown #dharavi #urbanization
collectiveintelligence
user-generated
participation
Feb 12 2018

First Workshop in Emergent Architecture and Urbanism Bogota

Breathing life into a community´s vision for a ¨restorative cell¨ using Bamboo 

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#urbz_construction
#urbz_community
#urbz_architecture
#urbz_colombia
urban design
architecture
construction
community
participatory planning
Jul 05 2017

Learning through building!

urbz Brasil on its inception, approach, methodology in São Paulo

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#urbz_saopaulo
brazil
participation
architecture
pedagogy
city
paraisópolis
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Jun 08 2017

No Future

As part of the Future Architecture Platform, urbz was part of a series of exhibitions and lectures at the MAXXI in Rome, the House of Architecture in Graz, Oris House of Architecture in Zagreb and the Future of Architecture symposium in Ljubljana.

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architecture
future
homegrown
circulatorylives
Dec 07 2016

DIY Tool House

80 students design their own vision of one-day workshop where participants had to plan and design their own architecture studios/living space in a homegrown settlement of their choice. 

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design
students
architecture
workshop
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Aug 31 2016

Form Follows Recognition

Recognizing patterns and processes are crucial to urban practice. The role of architects as agents of incremental growth needs to be emphasised over that of creators of a future that doesn’t yet exist.

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housing
informal
architecture
utopia
Jan 03 2016

The Future of Architecture

The future in architecture starts with a good hard look at the world as it is.

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#urbz_participation
architecture
mumbai
Dec 08 2015

Live Architecture For Homegrown Settlements

Every kaccha house transforming into a pukka house is a story worth telling – one which is extremely significant to residents and the development of the city at large.

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community
architecture
incremental
homegrown
Nov 05 2015

Preserving Urban Transformation

Residents keep intervening and changing their homes in the process of living, and this contributes to conservation

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#urbz_housing
khotachiwadi
architecture
heritage
Oct 25 2015

A House We Built Bigger

New incremental solutions for a house we built earlier. 

#urbz_construction
architecture
incremental
homegrown
shivajinagar
May 27 2015

Feral Urban Growth

Cutouts from URBZ’s mural at the Uneven Growth exhibition opening at the MAK Museum in Vienna.

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exhibition
architecture
homegrown
reclaimgrowth
Dec 01 2014

To Make Housing Affordable, Keep it Local

The official target of producing millions of quality homes for all can be re-imagined, as one in which the process of construction itself becomes a transformative moment.

#urbz_housing
#urbz_construction
architecture
affordable
homegrown
usergenerated
construction
Nov 18 2014

An Igloo in Mumbai

Experiments with EPS to build our new office in Shivaji Nagar. 

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design
shivajinagar
architecture
construction
Jun 05 2014

The Homegrown Cities Initiative: Update

After a handstorm workshop to make a variety of user-oriented objects and with a pilot house on its way, a report about the updates of the Homegrown Cities Initiative

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#urbz_design
#urbz_fieldnotes
productdesign
construction
architecture
homegrown
handstorm
workshop
May 28 2014

Casa em construção, Paraisópolis - Sao Paulo

The start of a collaborative initiative that seeks to interweave technical and scientific aspects of architects with knowledge of the local mason and the lifestyle of inhabitants. 

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#urbz_participation
#urbz_paraisopolis
architecture
local
paraisópolis
Sep 18 2013

Work In Progress: Casa Do Ataide

In collaboration with local pedreiro Ataide, the urbz team helps build a house in Paraisoplis right from digging the foundations. 

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#urbz_paraisopolis
architecture
construction
brazil
local
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