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Conflict in EquationsComputing the Future Growh of Informal Settlements

M. Arch Thesis

Advisor: Hugh Hynes

Year 2012 - 2013

There are over 200 unique slums in Mumbai. What

makes each slum different is the industry of the slum

dwellers. Some industries are very lucrative, leading to

very refined slum huts, and others are less so, leading

to make-shift shacks. The city of Mumbai is now

making a great effort to raze these areas and house

slumdwellers in high rises. This solution is corrupted

by poor construction, and spatially does not consider

the importance of industry. This project offers an

alternative.

The strategy begins with extracting the logic of each

industry. The next step uses this logic it to create

floating city above slums. It begins as a safe haven

from the heavy flooding of the monsoon, but as the

structure grows in squarefootage, it transforms into a

workplace for the slum dwellers below. This workplace

will then produce the same raw and finished goods it

does on the ground, but with an architecture that is

designed specifically for that industry. As this grows,

a marketplace will become an hub for people to trade

these raw and finished goods. This will become very

attractive to a foriegn market, and the implementation

of a hotel will accomodate international buyers and

tourists, as well as create new jobs for poorly paid

slum dwellers.

However, there are collisions as this grows. This

project also seeks to find new stabilities in the

conflicts that happen between two logics. For

example, while it may seem like the pottery industry

cannot collaborate with the plastic recycling industry,

the heat from a pottery kiln can also provide heat for

plastic melting. Another important collision is between

these new structures and existing SRA houses, but thiscan also create new opportunities and connections.

As these umbrellas create a new ground plane,

their relationship to the existing ground will change.

Overtime, this area will flood, giving more reason to

build above, and transform the ground below to a

wetlands for remediation.


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Fresh clay Storage / Transport

Throwing

Firing

Decorating

Storage / Transport

Dyeing Drying

Wax Applcation

Wax Peeling

Decoration

Weaving

Storage / Transport

Plastic Melting Plastic Casting

Plastic Sorting

Plastic Shredding

Storage / T

Can cleaning

Can scraping

Can Res

Oil Can Receiving

Storage / Transport

Rolling and Drying

Packaging

Ingredient Mixing

Packa

Storage / T

Oven Baking

Rolling

Cool

Ingredient Mixing

POTTERY INDUSTRY

ALGORITHM

PLASTIC RECYCLING

ALGORITHM

POPPADOM INDUSTRY

ALGORITHM

WAX DYEING

ALGORITHM

OIL CAN RECYCLIN

ALGORITHM

BISCUIT INDUSTRY

ALGORITHM

STEP 1: EXTRACT LOGIC OF EACH INDUSTRY


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Fresh clay Throwing Decorating Storage Firing

DecorationDyeingWax ApplcationWeaving Storage /

Storage / TCan cleaning Can ReshapingCan scrapingOil Can Receiving

Storage / Plastic Melting Plastic CastingPlastic ShreddingPlastic Sorting

Storage / TRolling and Drying PackagingRolling and DryingIngredient Mixing

Storage / Oven Baking PackagingRolling Ingredient Mixing


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STEP 2: USE INDUSTRY LOGIC TO CREATE FLOATING CITY ABOVE SLUM

Freshclaystorage

Firing

Storage

Sorting

Decorating

Shop

Hotel

T = 1Safe Haven

T = 1Slums remain

T = 3Most of slum is vacatedRecycling of huts begin

T = 2People start moving out

T = 4Slum huts have disappearedRemediation of wetlands begin

T = 5Wetland parkrecreation fo

T = 2Industry Space

T = 3Market

T = 4Hotel

Decorating

Smoke!

Throwing

Storage / TransportFreshclay

Throwing

Firing

Decorating

$ $ $ $

STAGE 1: SAFE HAVEN STAGE 2: WORK AREAS STAGE 3: MARKET STAGE 4: HOTEL


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Shop

Hotel

Prelim Sewing

FirstDyeing

Stinky!

SecondDyeing

Wax

Applcationandpeeling

Decoration(gem,embroidery)

Weaving

Weaving

Freshclaystorage

Firing

Storage

Sorting

Decorating

Shop

Hotel

Smoke!

Throwing

Promenade

Hotel

Stinky!

Loud!

Loud!

Cancollection

Cancleaning

Canco l lec t io n Cans cr ap ing

Canreshaping

Canscraping

Stinky!S t in k y! S t in k y!

Garbage sorting

Plasticshredding

PlasticMelting

Garden

Garden

PlasticCasting

Hotel

Kneading

Rolling+Drying

Kneading

Ingredient Mixing

Ingredient Mixing

Shops

Hotel

Shops

Ingredient MixingRolling

Oven


Oven


Oven

PackagingSorting

PackagingSorting

Freshclay Storage / Transport

Throwing

Firing

Decorating

Storage / Transport

Dyeing Drying

Wax Applcation

Wax Peeling

Decoration

Weaving

Storage / Transport

P la st ic Me lt in g P la st ic Ca st in g

PlasticSorting

PlasticShredding

Storage / Transport

Cancleaning

Canscraping

CanReshaping

OilCanReceiving

Storage / Transport

RollingandDrying

Packaging

Ingredient Mixing

Packaging

Storage / Transport

OvenBaking

Rolling

Cooling

Ingredient Mixing

LIGHT + SKY

BALANCE

1 2

3 5

7 9

COLLISION WITH SRA HIGH RISES

COLLISION WITH EACH OTHER


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STEP 4: CONFLICTS BETWEEN TWO LOGICS CAN CREATE NEW STABILITI

Throwing

Firing

Decorating

Freshclay

Freshclay

Storage / Transport

Storage / Transport

Throwing

Firing

Decorating

Storage / Transport

Dirty Water

Dirty Water

FreshWater

FreshWater

Throwing

Firing

Decorating

FreshclayStorage / Transport

FreshWater

Throwing

Firing

Decorating


FreshWater

Throwing

Firing

Decorating


FreshWater

Dyeing Drying

Wax Applcation

Wax Peeling

Decoration

Weaving

Storage / Transport


PlasticSorting

PlasticShredding

Storage / Transport

Cancleaning

Canscraping

CanReshaping

OilCanReceiving

Storage / Transport

RollingandDrying

Packaging

Ingredient Mixing

Packaging

Storage / Transport

OvenBaking

Rolling

Cooling

Ingredient Mixing

Heat

Heat

ToxicVapor

ToxicVapor

ToxicVapor

ToxicVapor

Loud

Heat

Heat

Loud

Loud

FreshWater

FreshWater

FreshWater

Storage / Transport

Dirty Water

Dyeing Drying

Wax Applcation

Wax Peeling

Decoration

Weaving

Storage / Transport

Dirty Water

Dirty Water

Dyeing Drying

Wax Applcation

Wax Peeling

Decoration

Weaving

Storage / Transport

Dyeing Drying

Wax Applcation

Wax Peeling

Decoration

Weaving

Storage / Transport

Dirty Water

Dyeing Drying

Wax Applcation

Wax Peeling

Decoration

Weaving

Storage / Transport


PlasticSorting

PlasticShredding

Storage / Transport

Cancleaning

Canscraping

CanReshaping

OilCanReceiving

Storage / Transport

RollingandDrying

Packaging

Ingredient Mixing

Packaging

Storage / Transport

OvenBaking

Rolling

Cooling

Ingredient Mixing

ToxicVapor

ToxicVaporShaft

ToxicVaporShaft

Excessive FreshAir

ToxicVapor

ToxicVapor

ToxicVapor

ToxicVapor

ToxicVapor

Excessive FreshAir

Loud

Loud

Loud

Storage / Transport


PlasticSorting

PlasticShredding

Storage / Transport


plasticoutput canbecome packaging

plasticoutput canbecome packaging

PlasticSorting

PlasticShredding

Storage / Transport


PlasticSorting

PlasticShredding

Storage / Transport

Cancleaning

Canscraping

CanReshaping

OilCanReceiving

Storage / Transport

RollingandDrying

Packaging

Ingredient Mixing

Packaging

Storage / Transport

OvenBaking

Rolling

Cooling

Ingredient Mixing

ToxicVaporShaft

Toxic Vapor Toxic Vapor Toxic Vapor

Excessive FreshAir

Loud

Loud

Loud

Loud

ToxicVaporShaft

Excessive FreshAir

ToxicVaporShaftExcessive FreshAir

Dirty Water

Dirty Water

Storage / Transport

Cancleaning

Canscraping

CanReshaping

OilCanReceiving

Storage / Transport

RollingandDrying

Packaging

Ingredient Mixing

Storage / Transport

Cancleaning

Canscraping

CanReshaping

OilCanReceiving

Packaging

Storage / Transport

OvenBaking

Rolling

Cooling

Ingredient Mixing

Loud

Loud

Loud

Loud

ToxicVaporShaft

Heat

Heat

Excessive FreshAir

FreshWater

Storage / Transport

RollingandDrying

Packaging

Ingredient Mixing

OvenBaking

Rolling

Ingredient Mixin

Heat

POTTERY + WAX DYEING

POTTERY + PLASTIC

POTTERY + OIL CAN RECYCLING

POTTERY + POPPADOM

POTTERY + BISCUIT

WAX DYEING + PLASTIC

WAX DYEING + OIL CAN RECYCLING

WAX DYEING + POPPADOM

WAX DYEING + BISCUIT

PLASTIC + OIL CAN RECYCLING

PLASTIC + POPPADOM

OIL CAN RECYCLING + POPPADOM

PLASTIC + BISCUIT

OIL CAN RECYCLING + BISCUIT

POPPADOM + BISCUIT


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STEP 5: RE-ESTABLISH RELATIONSHIP WITH GROUND

JUNCTION BETWEEN POTTERY STRUCTURE AND EXISTING HIGH RISE


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THE LAND BELOW RETURNS TO WETLAND, WITH POTENTIAL FOR REMEDIATION


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