samuel rosenzweig: student of architecture

Design Studio: Worli Koliwada

Education / Workshop Precinct


The project covered in design studio seven was my first look at an international brief. The location of this site is on the Worli Peninsula in the city of Mumbai, India. Firstly proposed is a 450m long monolith urban plan sprawling into the Mahim Bay. It is a suggested solution to an increasing population density in a low-socioeconomic area.

The GROUNDSCRAPER would be set up as a framework which the Koliwada people who would like to live in would construct their own module along a certain set of parameters and guidelines. These modules would slot and lock into place. This act of giving people the freedom to design and construct their own dwelling and business give them a greater sense of pride and ownership.

The second piece of the studio was to design a civic center for the Koliwada people. For this center I  chose to go down the path of proposing a place of education and construction. The idea behind the proposal for the larger urban plan was the majority of it would be constructed by the people wanting to live there would be carried through to this building.

The building acting similar to a conveyor belt in a factory, where the groups that are wanting to reside would first learn construction methods, then design and build their own custom module that would then fit into the framework of the larger urban plan.
The proposal here being 1800m2 has similar proportional characteristics to the larger urban model which sits perpendicular to it.