Thinking Landscape - Making Cities [Mumbai]

• Location: Greater Mumbai, India
• Project date: February 2021 - May 2021

In this Harvard landscape architecture class with Alexander Wall, each student chose a city in a unique climate to design a high level landscape strategy for. For my city, Mumbai, I developed a regional strategy based on preserving the few remaining mangroves and forests, and implementing a green strategy along the railway lines and train stations.

Zooming in through the city scale to the district and neighborhood scales, I propose water and hygeine interventions in informal and semiformal developments. The first leverages the natural properties of feces to supplement compost supply to new greenways, the second uses rainwater harvesting to increase local drinking water supply, and finally, the last treats contaminated stormwater runoff in the mangrove forests before entering the natural channels and ocean.