A town which has roots in the Neolithic Age struggles with the ups and downs of modernity. (The Hindu 09.12.2018)

The inception of urbz Colombia and the flow of local movements in Bogota

A project that started early in the year with local contractors and carpenters to design ideal Dharavi Homes opens to the public. 

Why is there a Bareilly street in Dharavi when Bareilly is infact in Uttar Pradesh? 

Started after a dynamic collaboration in Mumbai where team Colombia helped construct an office in Mumbai, Bogota announces itself and makes plans for the future.

Every kaccha house transforming into a pukka house is a story worth telling – one which is extremely significant to residents and the development of the city at large.

New incremental solutions for a house we built earlier. 

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

urbz' publication on Dharavi published by Strelka Press

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.

While residents may live here and work elsewhere, this neighbourhood also shows a high level of its own economic activities.

Future fitting is a high-tech, forward-looking, and design-orientated version of “retrofitting”, which can be applied in growing cities from Shenzhen to Mumbai. MoMA workshop notes.

In Rio “pacification” is a code word to describe the invasion of neighborhoods by squads of policemen walking around their guns pulled out, ready to shoot. 

Does Dharavi reveal a contemporary urban model that defies functional urbanism?

Architecture relies on inputs of the occupants to incrementally design a house extension in Sakinaka. 

What does the mutation of colonial Bombay into global Mumbai mean for architectural forms and public life?

Can design input be streamed into a process rather than given as a starting point to the construction process? 

Where affordable housing is scarce but people have tweaked the system and the land to achieve the best possible results in the given circumstances.