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The collection encompasses intellectual articulations—from course books and objectives to studio briefs and lectures—alongside a  documentation of student work, field studies, and thesis projects. Through this structure, the archive navigates complex inquiries into typologies, ontologies, and genealogies, while exploring themes of environment, urbanisation, futures, and ethics. It serves as a space for rethinking geographies and histories of type, offering the school's co-learning experiments and its ongoing articulation of space and form.


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Co-operative metamorphosis

Regulation of Housing; Practices of Home-Making
Pooja Dalal, 2022


My thesis aims to understand the changing socio-spatial relationships of everyday life generated by the redevelopment of co-operative housing societies in Mumbai’s suburbs through the current Development Control Regulations that provide generous incentive FSI to private developers for the redevelopment of old housing stock.

The precinct of Dahanukar Wadi in Mumbai’s western suburbs, which is recently undergoing rapid redevelopment of apartment buildings due to the construction of a metro railway station adjacent to it, forms the case study for this thesis. I have chosen three apartment buildings to study within this precinct. Two of these three apartment buildings have undergone redevelopment. These samples were chosen on the basis of different edge conditions, age of the buildings, and the public programmes at the ground level. In each of these samples, I analysed how the building sits in the urban context, the spatiality of its housing units, the profile, routines and everyday life of residents, and the form of life that these aspects generate. Building plans, sections, axonometrics and narratives that generate a thick description of the spatiality and form of life are used as a strategy to represent my analysis. .

Through the analysis, I observed that in the older apartment building, the presence of a non monetized public programme in the ground acted as a pause point for people since neighbouring buildings have ground floors as commercial shops. The edge allowed social transactions and allowed for a flow of the public within the building and animals alongside the building edges. In redeveloped buildings, although the ground space is converted into high end commercial programmes or stacked parking, they do not lend themselves to a wider public for a pause. The edges usually have high compound walls which segregate and mark territories. Furthermore, the older apartment building presents a scale that offers visual connectivity for the upper floors with the street as well as neighbouring buildings, which is lost in redeveloped apartments.




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