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.

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. 

The competition for land, rather than the traditional competition for tenants, was especially exacerbated in sites of growing industrialization and development like Bombay. 

How to provide housing for all classes of people who need it, taking their varied livelihoods  into account, while balancing their relative abilities to invest in housing? 

The so-called slums of the city are in many ways attempts at increasing affordable housing units through a different construction and financial system.

Mumbai Contra-CT Workshop report

Affordable Housing Seminar and Workshop