Mumbai's Eastern Waterfront Redevelopment
Urban Planning done in Group work with: Caroline Benjamin & Nour Khaled
Software used: Autocad, Rhinoceros, VRay, Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign
Software used: Autocad, Rhinoceros, VRay, Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign
The SGA competition theme “Leapfrogging Development: Urban Transformation in Mumbai” asks students to carefully consider how the city could use the development of the Eastern Waterfront of the peninsula of Mumbai, India, to realize its full potential in the city and as an inspiring global example for ideas about sustainable, resource responsible cities. It also asks students for ideas about how its development could engage stakeholders and reconcile or balance top-down and bottom-up urban forces. On that basis, the competition is looking for overarching ideas about how the Eastern Waterfront could be developed and what its role could be in the city and in the context of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR).
By catalytic urban design we set a master program rather than a master plan. A masterplan defines future end conditions. A master program sets more general objectives and ways to reach them, providing flexibility. In this project a “catalyst” is pedestrian avenue that stitches the promenade by the water front to the rest of the city on the west. The design of said avenue sets the area around it into a specific direction of function/theme. This is to provide the new development with diversity and a variety of mixed-uses. Four main pedestrian axes were designed to connect the waterfront to corresponding railway stations on the opposite side of the new development. Each promenade has a different theme like, educational, ecological, cultural, and commercial. The buildings bordering these promenades are mixed-use buildings, with residential units on the upper floor, and the ground floor spaces are used for public or semi-public uses, like shops, workshops, learning classrooms, offices, and so many more.
Catalytic Urban Design
Proposed Masterplan
Public Spaces' Design
