A Place for Informality

A Place for Informality: Designing cities for the informal using formal market driven systems

Riches, Matthew (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)

van Gameren, Dirk (mentor)
Koskamp, Gilbert (graduation committee)
Mooij, Harald (graduation committee)
Cuperus, Ype (graduation committee)

Delft University of Technology

Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences

2019-07-12

One of the most striking things bout the city of Mumbai, and more specifically Nalasopara, is the conflict visible between the formal and informal natures of the city. In a city where informal work and precarious lifestyles, are becoming ever more common, with currently 81% of india’s ecmonmy in the informal sector, the systems used to house this rapidly growing population is varied and complex but predominantly led by neoliberal and market driven economic tendencies. These systems demand a formal, top down and individual pproach towards the production of hosuing. This project aims to investigate these conflicts in the context of Mumbai and propose an architecture that can cater for needs and ambitions of the informal and precarious opulation of Nalasopara, in a way that suits the private developer and find a balance between these two mismatched systems.

housing
mumbai
dwelling
informal
india

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Student theses

master thesis

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