new bombay housing typologies

some of the experiments in housing in new bombay- like a catalog of housing typologies- some successful some horrific. first the sites and services schemes in kopar khairane where the basic units have all but disappeared under gradually assembled buildings;


pankaj and pranoti modi's young architects project directly opposite vaguely mimicking correa's hierarchy of courtyards along a main spine. the bridges cut across the main spine but the buildings seem in dire need of repair.

then the original- artists village where the houses have grown incrementally madder than anywhere else i have seen.it feels like a designed gaothan. i don't know any one who understands scale like he does.



raj rewals horrific red monstrosity was the last stop on the trip. the red gritty exteriors collecting dust and grime as the rooms gather cobwebs and thewindows crack. the only way to make these habitable seems to be by first completely erasing all the 'architectural' details and replacing them with the paraphernalia of domestic messiness.