Mapping Fishing Activity at Sassoon Docks

In the context of historic maritime cities, coastal infrastructure and the city have always shared an intrinsic relationship. Due to the impacts of urbanization that overwhelm the inner- core of the modern city, expanding morphology, change the logistical nature of trading and other pressures of urban transformation - maritime typologies of infrastructure
and the surrounding urban fabrics are facing severe threats of functional dis-use, degradation and blight. This is manifested as abandonment of the urban fabric, crumbling building stock, socio-cultural impacts on the historic neighborhood and marginalization of the dependent communities in the emerging public imaginations for the redevelopment
of the place. This studio explores a range of urban regeneration strategies and conservation-led tactful urban design as tools to retain the historical significance, the innate spirit of the place and its communities while contemporizing them to meet the deficiencies and aspirations of the growing city to re- establish their feasibility, relevance and significance in the evolving space- time frame.

Done as part of the studio mapping exercise, where students explored historically significant marine infrastructure along Mumbai’s Eastern Waterfront. The exercise aimed to understand the ecological, social, and spatial layers of these urban support systems to inform conservaton-led regeneration strategies.

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