During this project I have been exploring the post-industrial relationship between water and the city; primarily London and the abandoned infrastructure of the rivers and canals in the Lower Lea Valley.....
Re-Inventing Churchgate Railway Station Through The Vivacity And Intricacy Of The Dabbawalla Movement As A Catalyst To Create A New Co-Operative Commons Between Office Worker, Commuter And Dabbawalla.....
Three Colts Tannery was developed through research of the local history of industrial trades, backed by a social and political agenda to combat poverty and unemployment synonymous with the Bethnal Green area, East End of London.....
The architectural salvage exchange warehouse is extended along the canal to include storage for the salvage collection along with workshops for the restoration of the items. Public spaces and routes are integrated within these key active areas allowing visitors to.....
The ship breaking industry and a new paradigm for the future urbanisation of Darukhana, Mumbai. INS Vikrant and the breaking of it into ‘waste’ material can provide a new opportunity to explore architecturally a precedent for building from waste. Ships go to die at yards such as Darukhana.....
My Scheme is focussed upon fuel combustion and future interventions that will inform and aid the transition to clean sustainable power. I have identified Hydrogen as a future fuel that could potentially provide a city and its infrastructure with an effective.....
The thesis project critiques and investigates the intricate waterways and canal systems in the Lower Lea Valley. The project responds to two main issues; the increasing number of boats using the canals under the 'continuous cruiser' license - due to the increasing movement to live on the water....
Thesis is to bring back to use the waterways for recreation and connection. This will involve a series of activity interventions along the waterways connected by the means of boat travel. The activity areas exploit the vacant voids left behind from the industrial past, some of which are not easily accessible by land. The scheme will utilise the Olympic Park as hub for regeneration....
The project aims to be used as a redevelopment tool for the Dharavi Slum in Mumbai in association with the plastic recycling industry, re-establishing Dharavi’s position within the city of Mumbai. The slum is currently seen as a segregated and deprived area of the city that needs redevelopment....
Harvesting Mumbai, is a proposal to harness Mumbai’s monsoon rains and the greywater from existing buildings in Cuffe Parade and Colaba to provide the water for a filtration system, urban farm, community market, education facility and cleaning facilities. It creates a new common area uniting the gentry and poor who live side by side in the southern tip of Mumbai...
The design project looks at the use of water as an infrastructural tool to navigate through the compact streets of Colaba, situated at the Southern tip of Mumbai. It explores the creation of a new route of water flowing and connecting between the East, Sassoon Dock and the West, Back Bay, Coast lines. This route is designed with two new infrastructures running in Parallel, one a proposed new canal system...