Mass Inhabitation
Post studying a housing society named Bhakti Yog in Borivali, Mumbai, various ideas and models of redevelopment and retrofitting were thought about.
One of them i worked with was 50% redevelopment and 50% retrofit, with also coworking spaces to make the project feasible
The society is mainly occupied by Brahmins living in one room kitchen houses. the idea to intervene on this site was led on by keeping intact the visual and social connections and also promote living for various family types.
Co working spaces in Borivali have become an essential, post Covid various home based business have been promoted and also require adequate spaces to work.
Imagination of Space
The life of the site and its user group is imagined to be more lively and make thresholds that afford chance interaction as well as visual connections
Keeping this in mind there is a decision taken to retrofit 50% of the building and redevelop the other 50%. the redeveloped building has flats for rehabilitation of the old tenements and the retrofit contains flats for sale and coworking spaces.
Unit Plan
Visual interactions, chance encounters, the porosity in the building allows it to breath, it form a temporal façade. the elevation of the building is seen as an everchanging fabric highly dominated by people and the negotiations they do