The RESIDE: Mumbai Mixed Housing Competition, organized by the arch out loud team, worked on the concept of a mixed living environment for one of the coastal areas of Mumbai: Cape Worley Colivada, where the indigenous people - a community of fishermen, will coexist with wealthy Indians who are attracted by real estate by the water and good views.
One of the main tasks is to smooth out social inequality, which is becoming a problem for a big city, by means of architecture. Mumbai is home to about twenty million people, half of them in slums. Modern architecture basically only emphasizes the gap between the poor and the rich, isolating them from each other. The contestants were looking for opportunities to let them meet and interact. The works were evaluated by Daniel Libeskind, Norman Foster, Dominique Perrault, Deborah Burke and others.
First Place: Reincarnation Network
MARCHI students: Ivan Marchuk, Yasmina Aslakhanova and Victoria Tsukerman
Moderators: Professor Alexey Shutikov; Daniil Nikishin, Elena Vasilieva
According to the idea of the students, Cape Worley Kolivada should be reborn into a new urban environment, preserving the spirit, traditions and flavor of the Indian fishing village.
The territory of the site was conditionally divided into two parts. The first is a multi-story, for the wealthy Worleys, which will have housing, a school, a library and a system of courtyards and gardens. The second is the "floating" fishing village of the Koli people, with fish farms, a market, a marina, a floating cinema and a swimming pool system for tourists.
Both parts will be united by the museum and historical complex, which stretches from Fort Worley to the Hindu temple under construction on the cape. From the roofs of the complex, panoramic views will open up, squares and public spaces will appear around, attractive for both locals and tourists.
The resulting grid is filled with modules of various typologies that were developed by students: a house for a fisherman or for the Worley family, a shop or shop, a restaurant or workshop, etc. The shape and color of the modules are borrowed from traditional Indian homes, they have flexible layouts and are easy to build. Modules, like building blocks, can be used to create an urban environment that meets the needs of its residents. ***
Second place-1 / Citizenship line
Brazilian Bureau PUC Campinas
Raissa Gattera, Antonio Fabiano Jr., Thais Freitas and Leticia Sitta
The architects are converting the entire competitive plot of land into a recreational area and suggest some improvement options for the adjacent, already existing, residential areas: from a water purification system and bank strengthening to vegetable markets and an area with public toilets.
The main attraction of the project is “reverse high-line” - a public space under the bridge, which unequivocally hints at the problem of social inequality. Vertical nodes connect it to the transport above and boats below, and a large promenade on the roof. ***
Second place-2 / House, open to the sea
Architect Momen Nabil Bakry, German Institute in Cairo
There is a threat that, due to climate change, Cape Worley Colivada will absorb water over time. The authors of the project presented that the disaster has already happened, but the city continues to grow on the water, as a vertical continuation of a sunken fishing village. The streets between the houses are watery, the only way to get around is by boats. The plot resembles an Oscar-winning short cartoon
"House of small cubes". ***
Runner-up-3 / Koliwada's Koliving
Salvador Rivas Trujillo, Oswaldo Guzman Montero, Jesus Antonio Ortiz Vidal, and Angel Roberto Flores Ortiz from Mexico City
In this concept, the authors propose to expand the territory of the cape with several modules rounded in plan, protruding into the sea like breakwaters. The territory will be united by a pedestrian embankment, which will also protect Worley Kolivada from floods. Fishermen's houses are organized around "water" yards.
Public spaces - promenades, sports grounds, cultural centers, as well as infrastructure facilities - hospitals and schools - are accessible to all segments of the population. Residential "units" were made the same for Kolya and Worley, some of them can grow upward, others - in breadth. Narrow streets not only save from the sun and monsoon rains, but also force the townspeople to literally be closer to each other. ***
