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

When pavement dwellers are chased away, which happens often, they have no other option than making a new home on another the sidewalk. 

Many people involved in urban issues in Mumbai (and elsewhere) have tried their hand at making the definitive proposal for Dharavi. Read more about ours in collaboration with sP+a

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 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.

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. 

Housing must be seen as a process rather than a product: its values lie in the relationship and inter-action between the actors, their activities and the produced house.

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