Dharavi Slum Renovation

[lookieloo]

What is this?

Proposed Vertical Slum Looks Like a Dystopian Movie
https://medium.com/war-is-boring/5338b0f66a13

Looming at 15 stories, the hypothetical building has no ground floor.

Human and animal traffic mill at this level, moving from one end of the building to the other. Garbage drops from the tenants above before being pushed to the edges and collected for the recycling plant at the edge of the city. The wind shifts, and the smells from the garbage and recycling plant shift with it.

This is a solution to the problem of slums proposed by Kowalski Hugon, founder of architecture and design firm UGO. Let's Talk About Garbage is the name of the design concept, and it was Hugo's graduation project for his master's degree in architecture. It gained wider notoriety after winning the 2013 Archiprix International"Š—"Šan architectural design competition for graduate students...

 

[pmaitra]

They will move into tax-payer funded tenements upon taking possession, then after some days, go back to their slums, and rent out their tenement apartment.

Basic human nature: "If you don't work for it, you won't value it."