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Slices of Pai Nishant Pai Community Building Participatory Design

COMMUNITY BUILDING THROUGH PARTICIPATORY DESIGN

Using the tools of research, design and participatory planning to engage with Rehabilitation and Resettlement policy and its physical manifestations in Public Housing. This page showcases my work as an architect and designer.

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Public Housing in Mumbai 

NATWAR PAREKH COMPOUND, GOVANDI, MUMBAI

Work at Natwar Parekh Compound, Govandi. A public housing colony built under the Slum Rehabilitation Scheme in 2008.

Works as a junior research associate at the Curry Stone Design Collaborative.

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The works are divided into Introduction, Research and Participatory Design 

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INTRODUCTION 

RESEARCH

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PARTICIPATORY DESIGN

Slices of Pai Nishant Pai Community Building Participatory Design Natwar Parekh Compound Entrance
View from the entrance to Natwar Parekh Compound. This street is 9 m wide, the widest street in the whole colony, where most of the social and economic activity happens.
Slices of Pai Nishant Pai Community Building Participatory Design Natwar Parekh Compound Google Earth
Natwar Parekh Compound, as seen from Google Earth. To its east is Shivajinagar, and to its north-east is Deonar dumping ground. 

Natwar Parekh Compound is a Public housing colony built under the Slum Rehabilitation Scheme in 2008, occupied from 2010. Jointly owned by the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) and the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) it houses people from different informal settlements across Mumbai, that no longer exist due to various development projects undertaken by the MCGM and MMRDA. The colony consists of 61 buildings spread over 5 hectares, and has the capacity to hold over 30,000 people. The tightly packed buildings, along with lack of adequate open space, lead to the residents facing severe health and mental well being risks. The infrastructure and amenities are also severely lacking, like the service lines, building conditions and social amenities. This leads to flooding every monsoon season.

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The Curry Stone Design Collaborative has been engaging closely with the residents here since 2016, and has led a slew of projects within the colony. The colony has allowed us to experiment with our participatory process in action,  The residents themselves are equal stakeholders in this process, and the design interventions are based on suggestions given to us by the residents. The overall aim for the collaborative is to improve the built space within the colony, and to build capacity within the community to be able to tackle any problems by themselves in the future. 

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Listed on the following page are some of the sub - projects taken up within the colony by the Collaborative. My contribution as a junior research associate includes research and development, community engagement, preparing collateral's for community meetings, conducting surveys and project design, management and execution. 

I'm of the belief that information and knowledge should be accessible to all. However, the detailed version of this page is password protected due to corporate IP laws.

Please get in touch to view the full page.

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