The two films document the story of a house we helped build, in Shivaji Nagar, Mumbai. The neighbourhood is located near the city’s largest dumping ground and home to hundreds of thousands of people from marginalized communities.

The films showcase two stages in the incremental life of the house. In one, we see its professional and efficient construction a year ago, to its permitted height of 14 feet. In the second we see its vertical expansion in September 2015, following an authorized revision of the legal limit.

The choice which the new resident made, of keeping the unintended space, on increasing the height, is typical of the adaptability of urban incremental growth. The films make evident the potential, skills and resources inherent in such
places, which need very little to transform their living standards.